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you can swap x230/t430 to the x220/t420 keyboard, for what it's worth.

sticking point to me on the X220/230 is that 1366x768 screen, but I believe the X230 can be upgraded to 1080p.

Yeah, the best we can hope for is that keyboard being an option on the T series moving forward.

I really don't want to switch to chiclets when my T420 finally stops being perfect.

With Google Translate, you can use the service offline by downloading language packs. Now, I'd assume that if you use it offline, Google will cache your conversations and upload them the next time your device has connectivity. But who knows.

I feel like this already should be commonplace. I used Google Translate back in 2014 on a trip to Japan. Really came in useful when a hotel didn't have my reservation. Since then they've added the conversational mode that effectively makes Translate work identically to what was demonstrated with these earbuds.

It seems these only work in this fashion with Pixel devices.

I understand they're trying to create an air of exclusivity but it really just comes off kind of greedy and dickish when in reality, any earbuds with a microphone should be capable of doing the same thing through Google Translate.

At this point, that's kind of like telling non-smokers to just not breathe smoky air when they're around other people. These things are everywhere, people carry them in their pockets, millions of households contain standalone units. You're more likely to be in listening distance of a virtual assistant than not.

I know it makes me sound like a crotchety old man, but I just can't justify giving my lightbulbs access to my home network when the wall switches I already have seem to work just fine.

>The Nexus devices

So you can buy used or refurbished phones from some third party retailer, great, but you cannot buy a Pixel or Chromecast or Google Home.

Also, is it Google preventing Amazon from getting Prime onto their devices? I've always been under the impression this was Amazon's choice, as it helps them move more Fire sticks.

People always jump up and defend IoT devices, and while they make reasonable points (you can monitor their bandwidth, you already have a smartphone, etc), I'm just not willing to provide yet another potential entry point into my personal life, especially one that provides so little added convenience over the smartphone that is always within reach anyway.

All Google-branded products are blacklisted on Amazon. If you search for "Chromecast", your results will be Fire Sticks and then knockoff Chromecasts called "Anycast".

I use a Model M and remap capslock to super/windows button. I'm so used to it I remap it on laptops as well. Have never come across an instance to actually use all caps.

maybe you could pull down changes on a daily basis? not a complete reindex but just updates that prune dead links and add new ones.

the problem is this would be completely useless for current events. but querying sites you use regularly, this could be an option. I often end a google search with modifiers like "wikipedia" or "reddit" or "stackoverflow". If I could store indexes to those sites offline that might be useful.

The creator of this offline search could potentially make money by indexing shopping sites like Amazon, eBay, etc with affiliate links.

I work for an e-commerce company. This absolutely brutalized our sales until we made significant changes to our layout.

I understand that this instance is seen as a net positive for the end user, but Google should not have the power to force websites to conform to whatever Google decides is the new standard, or become irrelevant.

The end user should be deciding what is and isn't worthwhile content, or where to shop, or what have you. Not Google.

I have acquaintances on Facebook that pose and cheese for the camera seemingly every day, and others who apparently schedule their posts as if they're marketing themselves as a lifestyle brand or something. Like, we get it, you like mountain biking and camping, but you didn't do that stuff on a Wednesday. I know where you work, and it's not the woods.

They can come to St. Louis. Everybody else left. They can have the AT&T tower downtown, it's empty.

How about the audio book of Deep Work by Cal Newport?

nice to see a modern thinkpad getting a positive review. my T420 isn't going to live forever.

cool concept. I actually wrote basically the exact same thing in PHP as my final project for CS50X (nowhere near as polished as this of course). guess I can scrap plans for ever updating it :)

one thing that would be nice: a built-in profanity filter library. I see you have the ability to add words to a blacklist, but it'd be nice to just flick a switch and get rid of the garbage.

I like the simplicity of this. It's not exactly groundbreaking, but some things, like a simple mailing list, don't need to be improved upon.

If we still paid for software like we did 15 years ago, we'd probably have a perfect solution by now. Instead we have a bunch of "free" options that all want to harvest our data.

this is a great idea. How many times have you looked at reviews on recipes.com or whatever and the first 10 include a half dozen substitutions, basically making a different end product entirely? each of those reviews could instead be a fork. awesome!

>Did DBC give me an education equivalent to a computer science degree? No.

>Did they teach me everything I need to know about data structures and algorithms? No.

>Did they help me get my first programming job? Sort of, but not really.

This perfectly describes my experience with LaunchCode in the midwest.

I recently deleted my 10 year old Facebook account and opened a new locked down one that I use only for events. No pictures, no connections to anything else I use, no facebook app on my phone. it's unfortunate but it's basically a necessity.

Yeah, if they're pulling $5/mo from each premium subscriber, that's... well, some pretty easy math. They could put a cap on the userbase if they wanted and still be pulling millions per month just off subscriptions, not even accounting for ad revenue.

Is there any reason not to go with ProtonMail? They seem to be the big recommendation lately for encrypted email service.

>so where is that money going to come from?

presumably ownership of the image.

I was recently doxxed on Reddit. Never posted my name, used a unique username, but after 6+ years of posting, someone triangulated the data and successfully found my full name and home address.

Even though the user was banned (several times), even though all the posts are now deleted, along with my entire comment and submission history, my username there is now permanently tied to my real name.

While it was easy for a human user to doxx me using my comment history, it's even easier for computers, who save everything, no matter how briefly it is posted, to comb through your data and determine who you are. The only way to stay anonymous is to completely avoid ever talking about anything remotely identifying

Sure, where it will never be seen.

Walmart does something similar. I recently bought a generic desktop power cable from them, which when I checked online was listed at ~$5. In store, it rang up as $20. They price matched, but it's kind of ridiculous that they're preying on consumers like this.