X1 Nano:

• narrower than the old 11.6 laptops and slightly taller.
• Higher than 1080 screen due to the taller ratio.
• IPS display
• 0.97kg without charger.
• Thinkpad keyboard and track point.
• strong Linux support

Here is the PSREF for the first generation. They are up to Gen 3 of this line now.

Agree; Gnome on Fedora is just more polished in general than Gnome anywhere else. So sasy to add another language and that input language works everywhere including Flatpak apps Qt apps, etc. Fedora is winning me over in this regard and I’ve kind of been a Red Hat hater these days.

After 26 years of using Linux, I did my first baremetal “immutable” distro install last week.

My youngest son is starting school and instead of the Chromebooks that they recommend, I took a chance and installed Fedora Silverblue on a $200 Lenovo “student-rugged” class laptop. Everything works and he hasn’t had any issues so far. He gets access to the same student platform as the other students through Chrome, but then I can install Minetest and Tux Paint and GCompris as well.

The older kids run Debian stable for years now, but if this works out, I might transition them over next semester.

I love the old Mac Pros and even built a trashcan setup for Debian a few years ago. But TBH, they use a lot of electricity for the processing power they provide. If you already have one or can get one for free, great, use it. Linux runs great. But I wouldn’t go to OWC and buy something that would be outperformed by a fanless, low TDP machine these days.

Yes. At one employer, we had an entire domain in our AD forest that was Red Hat / CentOS / Ubuntu workstations for the developers.

I’m not sure there’s much of an ecosystem. It’s just three products and I don’t think the guy even looked at the budget tablet.

Usually you end up with products from the same manufacturer because there is a package deal or promotion sale. Which is the case now for their earbuds.

OpenBSD is clean and well thought out.

MS-DOS is simple.

At the bottom in the

Education, Professional Development, & Credentials

section

Something like: Open Source Computer Science Coursework Completed XX hours of coursework through ABCD, EFGH, HIJK Universities Relevant Coursework: Linear Algebra (Princeton); Machine Learning (Stanford); Cryptography (Stanford)

It would weigh less than my traditional degrees, but if pressed on it (unlikely), I would describe exactly what this is: an effort to liberate CS education in the spirit of the Free Software movement, using synchronous and asynchronous learning methodology in an online learning platform from accredited, reputable universities.

At this point in my career, it would show continued aptitude for growth and professional development, since it’s been close to two decades since my first degree.

Also, at this point, I’ve seen people put shit like Strayer U and ITT Tech and Liberty on their resume and get hired for very high paying jobs. Honestly I would take this over that trash.

Even 15 years ago, most lower level undergrad coursework was 150+ students in a lecture hall where the professor would pull up Blackboard and just load the slideshow. It was only at the 300+ level where class size shrunk down and interpersonal relationships sort of mattered.

My wife’s graduate degree a few years later but still over a decade ago was almost entirely online; they only met in person to discuss their progress towards the capstone. And she has a nice prestigious degree with a very expensive university name on it, walked across the stage at that University, and nowhere does that diploma read, “Online.”

I have a lot of beef with the US university system. Change has to start somewhere.

How did I miss this five years ago? What an excellent idea. I think we should be able to just finish the coursework and then put it on our resume.

I love this idea so much. I’m established in my industry but I think I’ll start working on it and just add to my resume. Thanks for sharing.

Depending on the country, if they don’t give special preference to speedtest.net, they might just block it.

10.4 down / 3.13 up

I’m probably the only person in the world who hasn’t played Minecraft.

We have a family Minetest server runnning Asuna since Summer 2023. Usually based around just crafting different things. Even for a few months we just put on creative mode and built two huge cities about 8,000 blocks apart and sky train connecting them, and then a third underground cave city about 2,000 blocks away.

We’ve had major upgrades of both Asuna and Minetest within the past few weeks so it’s pretty exciting.

Surprising that ThinkPads are only going to captive screws when Elitebooks had them 15 years ago.

Every Linux user should try Slackware at some point.

It would be really cool if there were another 15 teams in Europe, with NBA rules.

And each team would have a rival in the Western and Eastern conference that they played home and home with.

And then the Euro champion would do a Christmas matchup with the NBA champion.

If they are competent with computers, they can probably figure out Ubuntu and maintain it theirself.

I left Ubuntu for systems I manage because I’m not smart enough or willing to invest time learning snaps, and snaps kept breaking Firefox updates and generally made Firefox unusable. Since I’ve been around a while, I found it was just easier to migrate my fleet to Debian and set it to look like Ubuntu with the dock on the left. This has been fine since 2022.

If it’s something you would be partially managing, and they didn’t like Mint, have them try Pop!_OS.

If it’s a super simple, low maintenance desktop, just go Fedora Silverblue and it will stay solid and up to date until the hardware dies.

Hayward is also one of the greatest players in Butler’s basketball history. He led the Bulldogs to the NCAA national championship game in 2010, narrowly missing a half-court shot as the buzzer expired that would have given Butler a title.

I hate that the AP article also started with this. It was debated to death 15 years ago and the myth needs to die.

That was never a close shot or a narrow miss. It only looks that way on television because you are viewing it in two dimensions from 50 yards out. The NCAA immediately marketed this shot to death because they needed a cinderella David vs Goliath story in a nasty era of basketball that saw the winner score a whole 61 points in a 40 minute game.

A undefended halfcourt shot is statistically made about 12% of the time for high percentage NBA players. A half-court heave in a game goes in about 3% of the time; however, this is generally at the end of a quarter (vice game winning shot) where the shooter is undefended. For all intents and purposes, I’m considering NBA statistics here because it’s all we have to go on, and because there were multiple NBA players on the court that game, of whom Hayward was by far the best player.

Hayward launched this thing while running, defended, and time expiring, in a football stadium. It didn’t softly clank off the back of the rim with the chance of falling in; it brutally slammed hard right into the backboard, and then only altered its trajectory as it popped the outside of the front left of the rim by chance.

That shot was never going in. It didn’t even hit the inside of the rim.

This story takes away from an otherwise solid NBA career by Hayward. His best years were on the Jazz; he never recovered after that injury and was likely robbed from a hall of fame career.