Monday, February 28
Daily News Stuff 28 February 2022
To Move Or Not To Move Edition
To Move Or Not To Move Edition
Top Story
- The Quest for Pixy Manor continues apace. I've found a 5 bedroom place on two acres - in the same country town I was looking at before - for around $300k less than they're asking for my current shoebox on a postage stamp.
And it has gigabit internet, which is not something I can get here in suburban Sydney.
It's not as nice inside as some of the other places I've looked at, but it has all the storage space I could ask for - an attached 3-car garage, plus a second detached 3-car garage. And the land is already divided into two lots and for that $300k I could probably build something on the second lot and sell the original.
- Or I could just start my own crypto trading platform, defraud customers of $2.4 billion, and buy the whole damn town. (MSN)
And get indicted by a grand jury but that seems like a detail we can iron out later.
Tech News
- Lenovo's new ThinkPad X13s is a laptop power by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3. (Thurrott.com)
Which is - according to this article - not just another respin of a mobile phone chip, but one designed for laptop use.
It has four fast X1 cores plus four low power A78 cores. The fast cores in my new phone are A78, and this chip uses them as its low-power cores. It will still lag behind Apple's M1, but this might finally make Windows on Arm viable.
Wouldn't recommend it over an Intel or AMD model unless you need some serious battery life - it manages 28 hours on a single charge.
13" 1920x1200 screen, and up to 32GB RAM and 1TB of SSD.
- Apple has filed a patent for a computer build into a keyboard, like the TRS-80 Model 1 and the VIC-20. (The Register)
Because of course they did.
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A patent for a device having an outside surface dedicated to providing a visual representation of the various computational results of certain binary data streams as provided from a device consisting of transistors and capacitors and resistors integrated into a single or multiple complexes of computational circuitry either integrated into the display device or contained in a separate device and connected via various cables or wirelessly without cables via some form of electromagnetic energy. This patent is not intended to cover similar devices which are meant to be inserted rectally by patent attorneys.
Posted by: normal at Tuesday, March 01 2022 12:43 AM (LADmw)
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Also, that ARM laptop is pretty much what I would love to have, if it really can get 29 hours on a charge and run an operating system that doesn't suck. Lenovo has historically been pretty good at making stuff that runs linux (and FreeBSD), so there might be hope.
Posted by: normal at Tuesday, March 01 2022 12:45 AM (LADmw)
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Be careful. You may regret buying a big house on a big lot that will require a lot of upkeep.
Posted by: furball321 at Tuesday, March 01 2022 12:01 PM (n+R81)
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Giant Manor downside: Lots of upkeep.
Giant Manor upside: excuse to hire Puerto Rican pool boy and greasy Scots gardener.
Also, guns and BBQ, I think. Or is that Texas?
Giant Manor upside: excuse to hire Puerto Rican pool boy and greasy Scots gardener.
Also, guns and BBQ, I think. Or is that Texas?
Posted by: normal at Tuesday, March 01 2022 12:13 PM (obo9H)
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I actively do not want a pool, for example. If the house I settle on has one, I'll turn it into an unusually deep koi pond.
Be careful. You may regret buying a big house on a big lot that will require a lot of upkeep.Yeah. Realistically I need twice the space I currently have, for a proper home office, a spare bedroom for guests, and so on. Some places I've looked at are four times the size.
I actively do not want a pool, for example. If the house I settle on has one, I'll turn it into an unusually deep koi pond.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, March 01 2022 07:01 PM (PiXy!)
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Yeah, pools were a deal-breaker for me, too. It's just a hole in the ground that you throw money into, and by long-standing precedent, an attractive nuisance making you liable for children and pets who jump over your fence and drown their silly selves.
My new place does have far more grass than I'm willing to pay someone to cut, so I'm already looking to replace most of it with low-maintenance ground-cover, shrubs, and trees; and maybe a guest cottage. Pity so few bamboo species can handle Ohio winters...
-j
My new place does have far more grass than I'm willing to pay someone to cut, so I'm already looking to replace most of it with low-maintenance ground-cover, shrubs, and trees; and maybe a guest cottage. Pity so few bamboo species can handle Ohio winters...
-j
Posted by: J Greely at Wednesday, March 02 2022 03:46 AM (ZlYZd)
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I spent two years living almost next door to a regional airport (mostly Cessnas and small private jets) in downtown Dallas (~1900 feet from the end of the runway), but I was perpendicular to it, which probably helped some. The worst part was the first planes of the day firing up their jet engines at 7:30 AM, but I was normally awake by then, so it was just a nuisance if I had to talk on the phone.
Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, March 02 2022 09:48 AM (Z0GF0)
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