Posts by JibberX

Free-Teams-gate: Docker apologizes for shooting itself in the foot

The cloud is just someone else's computer.™

Intel settles to escape $4b patent suit with VLSI

VLSI isn't famous for being one of the founding members of ARM? Weird vibes...

Cloudflare explains how it managed to break the internet

The Internet...? Or the World Wide Web?

I know they talk about BGP shenanigens but still, its just affects people looking and animated GIFs in Netscape right?

Lenovo ThinkPad X390: A trusty workhorse that means business but it's not without a few flaws

Lenovo X250 Owner Report

Bought an X250 (new, back in the day) thinking of IBM levels of reinforced concrete, instead I got a flaccid plastic bag with some components inside.

Keys around the nipple were broken on arrival, so not great pre sales checking... WARRANTY

X250 returned using UPS who are systematically worst package company I've ever dealt with in my life over the years, no option to use another courier.

X250 arrived back, internal battery not plugged in.

Day to day use, the laptop screen was being eaten by the palm rest, the chafing on itself in a laptop bag leaves a nice groove on the screen... WARRANTY

The self eating continued after the replacement screen was fitted. I think it was designed for the glass touch screen not the plastic screen I opted for so...

Couldn't be bothered with warranty anymore, so I have a slight crap screen, and now it runs without too much incident.

Be nice to spend a grand on a machine that didn't eat itself.

Sadly Lenovo appear to be the last sturdy(ish) manufacturer after Sony and Tosh capitulated.

It was a toss up between an X250 and a Dell XPS13, I will never know which was the better option.

Pros and cons.

Punkt: A minimalist Android for the paranoid

Re: IP52

I bought the 8110 4G recently, screen scratched on the day of purchase. Must be all the diamonds (pocket grit, plastic screen) in my pocket?

Wish I'd seen the Cat before I impulse bought.

4G hotspot works abroad without buying extra tethering, so saving me a fiver a day already.

Removable battery on the 8110 might be good if I could find replacements, over the Cat, but that has 600 extra mahs.

Google kills AdWords!

Someone should tell Google Ads that they are a different company these days to Waymo... I guess they use the same designer...

Android devs prepare to hit pause on ads amid Google GDPR chaos

Wet fart

So as with other regs of this nature its complete unpolicability and likely nonenforcability will mean no one will know what to do, when to do it, and why.

Whilst its panic stations of the next fortnight, when's the first nonconformist going to be in the dock? 5 years?

Is the information commissioner really going to be able to enforce any of this?

I've read people likening this to kitchen hygene and so on, but its really just a confusion inducing mush.

Google are just riding it out until everyone realises GDPR has no teeth.