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[–] sirico@feddit.uk 90 points 1 month ago (3 children)

User not seen touching grass

[–] Kenvexity@lemmy.ml 33 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

baby steps ill try again next time

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 23 points 1 month ago

Use adult feet next time easier to stand

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

That's one small step for linux users, a giant leap for nerdkind

[–] cockmushroom@reddthat.com 2 points 1 month ago

Every single time with these posts. Last one i saw, the guy was sitting on a wooden porch taking a picture of the grass through the barrier/fence

[–] hellmo_luciferrari@lemmy.zip 57 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago
[–] _Nemo_@lemmy.ml 38 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Man, your basement has the weirdest carpet I've ever seen. Also, much too bright for my taste. If you can see the keycaps without backlight, you're doing the lighting wrong.

[–] cockmushroom@reddthat.com 2 points 1 month ago

If you're looking for keycaps in any lighting, you're doing linux wrong

[–] carrylex@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Congratulations you now have some free bugs on-board

[–] Kenvexity@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

mmm i love bugs

[–] ghurab@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

linux users not being able to touch grass without bringing along their emotional support thinkpad. smh

[–] waigl@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I wouldn't want to put the air intakes of my Thinkpad directly on the grass like that. It's bound to suck in dirt.

[–] Kenvexity@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

it was for about 6 seconds the thinkpad is unharmed i promise

[–] SatyrSack@quokk.au 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But it has gotten a taste for dirt now. This is only the beginning.

[–] gnufuu@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago

Only a matter of time until it demands for Windows to be installed

[–] GreenCrunch@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I mean at that point there's probably blades of grass going through the fans

[–] syaochan@feddit.it 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

On mine there's a fine mesh in front of the fan, blades of grass would not get through

[–] PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 6 points 1 month ago

Life, uh...life finds a way

As long as you’re not running something that gets the CPU going crazy I doubt you’d suck in any I Dirt.

[–] quantumvoid0@programming.dev 8 points 1 month ago

That's GIMPed

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Careful, that's how you get bugs in your code.

[–] Makkaroni@feddit.it 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] cockmushroom@reddthat.com 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Bro thinks he can screenshot grass from outside on manjaro

[–] kuiskaaja@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

look, even i can do it. not that hard. im on fedora tho

[–] istdaslol@feddit.org 7 points 1 month ago

If it wasn’t for the dead grass I’d say it’s Astro turf

[–] MsFlammkuchen@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I actually installed grass on my pc yesterday. But qgis sadly doesn't find it. I'll look into it when I find the time.

And now an obligatory:

$ touch grass
[–] waigl@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The nerd inside me automatically wants to correct that to

$ > grass

That avoids starting up one addidtional process.

(Unless the file already exists, and you just want to update its mtime, of course.)

[–] MsFlammkuchen@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 month ago

Couldn't you just use

$ >> grass

Or does that not change the mtime?

Anyway, neither of those two is touching grass.

[–] cybermass@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's a pretty epic thibkpad

[–] JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

It's L14, not T14. My mom has one for(EDIT: at) work and the bottom cover is cracked. It would be fine if she didn't use a 6-year old HP (also fuck HP), which is somehow still in mint condition.

Yes, a HP beats an L series ThinkPad in durability (but this is only anecdotal evidence, I have no idea if this is widespread).

[–] Kenvexity@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

i dont treat my thinkpad gently (photo as evidence), and it is in perfect condition after a year, throwing it in my school backpack daily, getting tossed around, getting hit and bumped countless times, on top of what it experienced before i got it (it was second hand from some business) i wouldn't say its very fragile. sure, its no T series thinkpad, but L series seems to be overhated.

[–] JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Cool, so it's way more durable than my Latitude 5290. I had my bottom cover screw inserts break when opening it. And the bottom panel is cracked in multiple locations. Also, recently had to reglue a display hinge, since it's just glued on the plastic top panel via a metal extension (it also broke the bezel which I had to plastic-weld to reinstall it). But I also use the display frame as a handrest so it was doomed to fail. Also, I had to reglue or replace most of the rubber housing parts. Here's my poor little laptop:1000005207

I kinda feel bad for this laptop coming into my aggressive hands.

I would recommend a Dell Latitude, but expect problems if you mistreat it like me. It isn't a T430 or T440p, which survive everything.

Edit: the green spot on the photo isn't a spot on the camera, it's a plastic-weld. Yes, it's all screwed with in weird ways, all by me.

Also, your laptop is in great condition, don't worry about it, you treat it above-average-ly, unlike me.

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

my friend had a pretty expensive/high-end hp laptop, got Hinge Problems after a few years of usage.

[–] JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yep, I would expect her laptop to be in the same or worse condition, if it was mine.

It's build quality is practically nonexistent and if we expect the interiour to be like other HPs I disassembled, it's probably hollow without any board protection whatsoever. Also, the fans are almost always full speed, even on moderate to low load (of the some gen of ryzen 5 which is actually decent).

[–] aim_at_me 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

An elitebook, maybe. But not all HPs are made equal. Just like Lenovos.

[–] JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 weeks ago

Definitely not. It's some consumer garbage laptop, because the build quality is visibly shit.

[–] FreshLight@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

Where are the socks?

[–] mistermodal@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

They create visible drought conditions and tell you to touch grass, what does that tell you? #hitthehay #indoors

[–] PostaL@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Now even your code has ticks. Nice...

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I honestly do not get why "touch grass" became a common phrase/meme around a decade after many people got mobile Internet access (through smartphones).

Before that, it would have made sense because you'd usually only be posting on the Internet when you're somewhere inside where there's a computer; but now that we can literally be posting online while lying on grass?! How did this happen?

[–] tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago

I agree. It always seemed a ridiculous abusive phrase anyway much like "Wake up and smell the coffee!" People repeat these things thinking they're clever.

[–] Spooge@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Me. I say it. It's true too.