I was diagnosed in my late 50’s. It was a complicated process because there is another mental health co-morbidity that shares some traits.

After going through the more than a year long process, we are working on dialing in the meds.

One of the challenges for diagnosis is that the attention economy is shortening a lot of people’s attention span, causing many people to feel that they have ADHD, and diverting resources from diagnosing people who actually have ADHD. Not saying that the issue shouldn’t be addressed. The combination of these factors, and the rather long and complicated process of a proper diagnosis is a challenge.

Conversely, I replaced the battery in a T740 last week for a client .

8 screws total, including keyboard, and battery (2, and not glued).

I wouldn’t give this one a 10/10, but 7-8/10, probably.

Nice to work with, captive screws all around the shell, so no lost screws, no bullshit “screws under rubber feet” like HP loves to do…

Only gripe is that the usb c is not on a daughterboard. Or power and ports for that matter.

I have a lower end, but capable gaming laptop. R7, 1Tb Nvme, 32Gb, RTX… It is easy to open, service, expandable, with space for a SATA 2.5, for example. Spill proof, lighted kbd, etc.

It’s kind of built like an old school ThinkPad. A tank.

And that’s why I’m getting rid of it.

The thing IS a tank.

I really use it as a laptop, I do onsite stuff, so I lug this thing around all day. Many use these as “transportable”. I don’t, I have a beefy workstation at home, so the laptop generally lives in its backpack.

So, for me, a professional grade, light but sturdy, and repairable machine is just what the doctor ordered.

If you need rugged, some gamer laptops are pretty tough and accessible, but you will pay the chunk tax.

If you REALLY want rugged, get a proper ruggedized laptop, and carry it around.

2000 things from where? Canada? Mexico?

Generally speaking the US is vulnerable to ballistic missiles, or interior attacks. Shahed style drones are not really viable.

Ukraine is not offering to give what they have, but rather sell, so they can make more for themselves, and to do joint production.

Boy, aren’t we glad to meet ourselves!?

I don’t concur. I believe you are talking more of graphic style, while I’m talking more about the worldbuilding, the ambiance, the conceptual, pre-steampunk visual language. While Shuiten is a sort of Ligne Claire extremist, I find Moebius very difficult, if not impossible, to classify. He is often called Ligne Claire, but his style is often very gritty, and his protrayal of movement is clearly inspired by Franquin, the master of movement. Moebius has such an ability to move between styles, while keeping his personality, that makes him very difficult to classify.

I started Arcane, and pretty soon I felt like they were just ripping off a lot from the 80’s Shuiten and Peeter’s graphic novels, that I just quit.

Fun fact: Band of brothers depict Easy as the ones entering The Eagle’s Nest, while it is mostly credited to “La Nueve”, a company of Spanish Civil War hardened republican combattants who joined free France forces to keep fightinig fascism. They fucking liberated Paris, too, but were not credited until a few years back because the French couldn’t stomach that some french didn’t liberate Paris.

La nueve would make for an amazing miniseries.

Counterpart is simply brilliant. That such a gem flies under the radar is really a shame. Slow horses is great too.

That I had to scroll this far to see The Wire and Deadwood is appalling! Chernobyl is also a triumph.

I’m all for the move, and I’m definitely a progressive, but I think it’d be good for people to understand that Sanchez is no Idealist. The man is a party rat, and all his moves are calculated to keep himself in power.

As I said, I agree with the move, but the motivation is not what people think it is.

I guess it’s the broken clock thing.

OK, some chorizo, but no ibérico

For the blackout concerns: if you have solar panels, irrelevant, actually you’d be in a better place than with an ICE car. Also, if you have a garage, a fairly powerful generator cost peanuts compared to the price of a car, and some can run on gas cilinders and gasoline. Way safer to store gas cilinders than gas.

Batery longevity: I read an article that reviewed longevity, now that there is enough data, and most cars had better longevity, by far, than expected, except for some early models, like 1st Gen leafs. These had lower longevity, attributed to lower capacity batteries that had to be recharged a lot more. Higher capacities, coupled with way better charging circuits and logic, make for way more durable batteries.

Public charging costs is a valid concern.

Long drives. Decades ago I drove with my ex and my in laws from Madrid to Brussels in one go. 2 of us taking turns.I swore to never do more than 800 Km in one go. We did it in a largish car, pretty comfortable. Yeah, no.

Recyclability: most of ICE cars are recyclable, even much of the plastics, which are used to make floor mats, soundproofing, etc. Most of the car is metal, copper and aluminum being especially valuable.

Joy of driving. Once you experience the insane torque and acceleration of EVs, even the smaller ones, you won’t want a stick, unless you have a true sportscar.

I drive a 26 year old car, which I will keep until it has a catastrophic failure, love the thing. Not a major failure ever. Next will be an EV.

Chat with anybody, anytime (with some exceptions, OFC), is the default mode in Spain, unless someone is fixated on their phone, or reading, or with headphones on. Everybody else is fair game.

Actually it should be fairly trivial to host this in a peer to peer fashion, in the background. Depending on how much you want cached in your device, you could have in local storage all the maps that cover, lets say, 100Km from your position. Satellite would be more data intensive, but the same concept applies. All data would be distributed, and since most have unlimited data plans, hosting and bandwidth would essentially be free.

Plus the problem of having my data hosted, not just In another country, but In a different celestial body!

Nowhere did I claim anything democratic (even though I could). I claim that when a head of government really fucks up, Europeans sometimes rise up to the challenge. Brave Americans seem to have lost that capacity since the 1700’s. Also, that which you call servility, can be interpreted as “let the chest pounding gorilla pay for most of the expenses of our protection”. Trump wasn’t all that wrong about having European countries pay a bigger share, although for the US it was cost efficient to foot a larger part of the bill, to keep the first line of defense an ocean away.

But yeah, remove Turd. Then you will have earned the right to talk about others.

Like all ambitious space missions in history, it will be delayed, delayed, and delayed again. Sadly that’s how it has always been.

Unless I’m grossly mistaken, Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo were pretty much on schedule. I don’t know about Skylab, if we consider it separate from Apollo. I think things started to become less tight with STS (Shuttle).

If you are american, and haven’t risen up in arms to topple the tyrant (despite that being one of the excuses for the 2nd) you have not earned the right to call Europe/Europeans anything. Let me remind you that in Europe, every so often, a president/premier is toppled by the people, through massive, constant movilization, general strikes, etc. Get your house in order. and then comment on others, if you wish.