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[–] carrylex@lemmy.world 1 points 35 minutes ago

Congratulations you now have some free bugs on-board

[–] hellmo_luciferrari@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 hours ago
[–] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

I bought a used X1 carbon gen 9 and loved it, then it pooped itself after 2 years. Went to the closet and pulled out the old gen 2 I also got off ebay once again. Linux breathed new life into it and now it has more power than ever before.

It is the grass and dirt people should be worried about. The old gen X1s take no shit.

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 32 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

User not seen touching grass

[–] Kenvexity@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

baby steps ill try again next time

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 2 points 3 hours ago

Use adult feet next time easier to stand

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago

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

[–] istdaslol@feddit.org 5 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] _Nemo_@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

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.

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 1 hour ago

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?

[–] waigl@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours 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 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] SatyrSack@quokk.au 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] gnufuu@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

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

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

[–] GreenCrunch@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] syaochan@feddit.it 2 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] MsFlammkuchen@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 hours 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 1 points 4 hours 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 1 points 3 hours ago

Couldn't you just use

$ >> grass

Or does that not change the mtime?

Anyway, neither of those two is touching grass.

[–] mistermodal@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 hours ago

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

[–] cybermass@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 hours ago

That's a pretty epic thibkpad

[–] Spooge@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

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