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maplehill @lemm.ee
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Apple, Lenovo lead losers in laptop repairability analysis
  • Anecdotal but I have managed a fleet of over 1000 Lenovo Chromebooks for almost a decade and have found them to be solid and easily repaired when needed. We also have had no issues with a tiny fleet of Thinkpads.

    The only major issue I've run into was the supply chain issues during the pandemic. Not unique to Lenovo but was interesting that it was exacerbated by Lenovo being found to use components from subsidiaries that regularly used forced labor in manufacturing.

  • New York Times Interactive Feature — Why We Love to Get Lost in Games: The Enduring Appeal of Metroidvanias
  • Spent two years on and off on Simon's Quest before figuring out some of the hidden stuff that allowed me to get to the end and then beat the game. Hundreds of wasted hours killing those stupid zombies at night and talking to useless villagers during the day. What a shit designed game.

  • People who live in functional and safe countries, how happy are you?
  • I have high school aged children so all of the sabre rattling is unsettling to me. I would love my kids to maybe explore degree programs outside of the US because I don't see things getting better anytime soon. I don't want them sucked into some bullshit conflict started by that guy.

  • Trump spending freeze sticks Iowa farmers with millions in bills for conservation work
  • I don't live in Iowa but have a small farm and live surrounded by farmers and ranchers. You have to understand that these people have the tiniest of perspective to the world. They spend almost their entire lives on one property, rarely go anywhere due to the nature of farming, and constantly have right-wing radio on in the truck and the barn and fox news on at home. You combine that with limited education across multiple generations and you have a group of people perfectly suited to consistently buy into propaganda and almost never able to identify things that will eat their face in the end.

  • Guess the Episode [Hard]
  • Aww. I was hoping it was payday and a wonderful day... Until he realizes he's paying the bear patrol tax.

    "Let the bears pay the bear tax! I pay the Homer tax!"

    "That's the homeowners tax "

  • 2/15/2025 - Keeping Education Accessible and Ending Covid-19 Vaccine Mandates in Schools
  • I work in a K12 school and no school in our state mandates COVID vaccines. While we keep track of any/all vaccinations and report them to the state health department per state law, a parent can also submit exemption paperwork for individual vaccinations to not get them or not report them.

    Whatever brainworm guy says at the federal level doesn't mean shit because it's state law. However what it does accomplish is getting dumb fucks riled up with misinformation and propaganda so they frequently call or email schools to harass and threaten school employees. This happens frequently in my school and neighboring schools. It serves as a useful distraction while various government funding streams and programs are cut.

  • Computers unleashed economic growth. Will artificial intelligence?
  • This should be corrected to something like: "We thought Facebook and Twitter would unleash economic growth and a new golden age for humanity. It didn't. Will it be the same for AI? Yes."

    Too long for a headline but would be a good way to write an article pointing out that the main point will be to have AI write more shitty ads for Facebook and Twitter albeit while you wade through ads between prompts on chatgpt.

    Because like all the others... It isn't really providing any value... Just low end schlock and garbage... So what are we going to do to make money for execs and shareholders? Oh I know!! Ads!! And subscriptions!!

    Edit: typo