CosmicGiraffe
@CosmicGiraffe@lemmy.world
- Comment on DivestOS ends development 1 week ago:
It’s a quite entitled view to take that they should make an effort to pass the project on. It would be very hard to build sufficient trust in a new developer quickly, and passing it on without that trust would be undermining the trust that users of the projects have placed in this dev. If I were him, I wouldn’t be staking my reputation on finding someone to take over from me if there wasn’t already an obvious candidate.
The successful fundraiser you mention looks to have had a target of $12k USD (from: discuss.techlore.tech/t/…/6660, the original page has been taken down), and was as a alternative to them taking a full time job. I’d say its a reasonable bet that money was spent on living expenses, and IMO $12k a year is much less than this level of skilled work is worth. It’s certainly not enough money to make it unreasonable to shut down the project a year later, and I doubt anyone who donated feels shortchanged by it.
- Comment on Google Says Sorry After Passwords Vanish For 15 Million Windows Users. 5 months ago:
The xz compromise having demonstrated that FOSS projects are totally immune to interference from state actors…
- Comment on Microsoft insiders worry the company has become just 'IT for OpenAI' 6 months ago:
You’re right, my bad. (Source: help.kagi.com/kagi/…/search-sources.html)
- Comment on Microsoft insiders worry the company has become just 'IT for OpenAI' 6 months ago:
They pay Microsoft for access to the bing index
- Comment on Windows 10 end of life could prompt torrent of e-waste as 240 million devices set for scrapheap 1 year ago:
I’ve always got them from eBay.
The T and X series are the high-end ones. Between those it mostly depends on what size of laptop you’re looking for. Its worth checking a guide for how you replace the SSD/RAM/battery - some of the newer ones have these soldered in place, which means you’re stuck with whatever it originally came with.
Personally, I think the sweet spot is around 4 years old. By that point they’re pretty cheap (maybe 10% of the original RRP), and going for older ones doesn’t save you much more money. I recently got an X390 and it’s doing everything I need from a laptop