Took a minute of web search to solve that acronym.

I’ve bought a few of these bundles but could never get into reading the science or tech books on my small laptop. And they are useless on a phone. They might be best on a big desktop monitor, especially in portrait orientation. I have an easier time with narrative ebooks. History, fiction, etc.

Some of the books in the bundle do look good.

How about almost anything else? Go, Ocaml, Ada. Haskell, etc ? You might also consider CUDA if your problem naturally parallelizes.

Why rust? It’s trendy but it’s really best for systems work despite the zealots.

Remotely? Sounds like the manufacturers are up to no good as well.

Oh looks like you can still get Fenix e01. This is a great light though not exactly modern. 1 level of about 10 lumens, which is fine for a basic EDC regardless of the lumen mongers cringing.

Oh yes Skilhunt E3A is my current EDC. How could I have forgotten. Also a great light, shorter and nicer tint than the Fenix, though too bright IMHO (100 lumens, 1 hour runtime). You want the slate blue version which for some reason has a harder finish than the other colors. You can change the brightness by replacing an SMD resistor if you want to bother. I didn’t.

https://fenix-store.com/collections/e-series/products/fenix-e01-v2-0-aaa-flashlight

https://www.skilhunt.com/portfolio/e3a-aaa-100-lumens-pocket-edc-keychain-mini-led-flashlight/

I think the micro stream AAA might have just one mode but would have to check. It’s kind of expensive for a bare bones 1aaa light

Those super cheap 3aaa Home Depot and similar lights are actually usable though crappy. You might be able to run from an 18650.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Defiant-60-Lumens-Aluminum-Flashlight-8-Pack-90652/320076174

I’ve been using mate, generally happily. I don’t remember what if any issues I had with xfce. I hated gnome.

Hmm, Unihertz has some projector phones, if that helps. They are huge though.

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Thanks. I guess mostly, do you think it was worth the expenditure? My current daily user (X220) is pretty trashed and I’ll need to replace it soon, and am thinking of getting a refurbed X13 or something like that, in the $300-500 range. Older laptops have been fine for me but maybe I’m missing out on something without realizing it.

Just make the battery swappable. That’s modular enough. What happened with the Moto Z anyway? Is there a story?

This is great, they found a use for their pizza sauce that fermented.

Surely they won’t make the software even more CPU hungry either.

I thought Lyme disease was bacterial (borrelia burgdorfi or some such) rather than viral.

What is the model number? It should be a 4 digit number on the sticker on the back. That will help me look up the specs. Does it have a swappabe battery like old thinkpads? I’m not sure if they have gone completely to internal ones. Thanks.

I think somewhat worse, but try a web search. One attraction iirc is very fast charging.

What is the screen resolution? Particularly wondering if it is 16:10 proportions like some new thinkpads.

It’s just about LFP which are very common now. The new trend is sodium ion instead of lithium ion. CATL (battery manufacturer in China) is shipping those now, and they are starting to appear in some cars.

About the update stuff, I just meant I calculated a possible size of differential updates. I think it would be enough to just have a setting saying which map segments I want to bother updating at all, or anyway to keep the POI’s updated. POI’s in my local area, sure, I’d keep those updated. But I’d like to have large scale maps (all of California, or the whole US) for the purpose of routing long trips, and don’t care much about the POI’s.

I figure my phone is being tracked merely by being on the carrier network. In principle I could leave it in airplane mode but that stops incoming messages and stuff. So I try to use Google Maps sparingly but I so far don’t claim to 100% avoid it.

Oh you mean the discontinuation rather than the accessory itself. Meh, there is always ebay. Someone will always have an extra one left from their old phone before they upgraded to a usb-c phone.