For my Asus laptop the setting is maintained at the hardware level. I didn’t bother trying to find Linux software that could control it (I think there is one) but instead just booted into Windows and set it there and it will persist after that in Linux.

I use an Asus laptop I bought during COVID as my server. I dropped in 64GB of RAM, a pair of NVM drives and an old 2.5” SATA SSD. More than enough for my use cases. The only real software tweak I made was limiting battery charging to 60%.

My son saw the pan sitting in the kitchen and asked we had bought a new one. It does look very nice. Thanks for the advice.

My pan is already in the oven on self clean, but I appreciate your advice. I do think the black crud is some sort of buildup as I could feel it with my fingertips. It’s the more silver part that I think is a complete lack of seasoning.

But I don’t really know!

I’ll give it a try and post the results!

I didn’t know how to reseason, but running it through the self clean seems like a pretty easy method! Thanks.

I’m so used to using powershell to handle collections and pipelines that I find I want it for small scripts on Mac. For instance, I was using ffmpeg to alter a collection of files on my Mac recently. I found it super simple to use Powershell to handle the logic. I could have used other tools, but I didn’t find anything about it terrible.

I even use powershell as my main scripting language on my Mac now. I’ve come around.

I have seen the same brand of cheese at Walmart in a slightly smaller knot I think. It is such a great melting cheese.

Mmmm……and that giant Oaxaca Cheese Knot they sell. And 3 pound blocks of tillamook cheddar. God I do love cheese.

I put a pan in my oven on self-cleaning cycle. The weight of the pan and the heat made the rack the pan was on droop permanently.

Edit: I’ve lost the thread a little as this started about laptops not mobile phones. I’m leaving this comment here as the points may be valid even for laptops, but I’m too bored to do any more research. Thanks for the great and civil discussion.

I would agree that a theoretically completely upgradeable and repairable device is better, but I think the real world implementations generally aren’t that good.

It’s hard to get to statista’s summary of lifespan of phones without a subscription, but many summaries that use their data say something like:

In general, the average lifespan of a smartphone is 2 to 4 years. According to reports, the iPhone lasts 4-10 years, followed by Samsung units, which can last 3-6 years. Huawei and Xiaomi units have an average lifespan of 2-4 years, while OPPO units have 2-3 years.

Perhaps there is better data out there that would change my mind, but I haven’t seen it. If Apple products are iWaste, then it appears nearly all other products are even more wasteful. All the data I have seen points to Apple products as generally having a long lifespan followed by an excellent free recycling policy (https://www.apple.com/me/recycling/).

If you are saying the “iWaste” comment is about repairability not reliability, I get that. My take is maybe that if something has a long lifespan despite not being repairable, it might be have a longer life before becoming waste or recyclables.

I do like that the EU is mandating user replaceable batteries and other changes and support most right-to-repair legislation.

My wife and I both had the G2. I loved it so much! I feel like the foldable phones coming out may someday give me the same feeling.

I tried to find a good study of laptop lifespan by brand. The best thing I could find was a consumer reports survey from 2023.

https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics-computers/laptops-chromebooks/laptopreliability-a7029273631/

They rated Apple as the #1 laptop for reliability. I don’t think that is “iWaste.”

This lines up with what I’ve seen, but even as a career IT person my personal sample size ain’t that great.

I dislike that current Apple products aren’t very repairable, but appreciate that they are very recyclable and durable.

I’m too lazy to look it up, but there is a settings in either the office products or group policy that makes it use the old open/save dialogs. I remember setting it up for an octogenarian relative who couldn’t adjust to change.

My only complaint with it is the lack of support for personal vault. I don’t use it heavily on my Mac so maybe I just haven’t encountered other issues.

You might consider what you would do if your source has an issue that syncs the to your off-site copy. If it isn’t a lot of data, you might want to keep another copy or two in either location that is created at a less frequent schedule but would give you a fall back.

As an example, if your files got ransomware encrypted and then sync’d to the off-site location, how would you recover your data?

That is so cool!

The only thing that really matters is the average milk fat %. I like Costco’s 40% heavy cream from a price and quality standpoint. My family drinks skim milk. If I mix those two equally I will end up with about 20% fat which makes a very nice ice cream.