That one seems like it would be easy to remake with current day components. Keep the display the same to extend battery life, give it smarter internals and slimmer design. That could be the work phone, the texting phone, the going hiking phone, the daily driver that has several days of battery life.

But the more I think about it, a Bluetooth keyboard paired with a normal smartphone would not need its own phone plan and would provide the physical buttons for typing. It just won’t be as cool as that thing.

Thank you for reminding me of Thinkpads. I’d like to track down a used or refurbished one for home use to survive kiddos

Oh wow, the wrinkles would drive me nuts.

Also, why extend it vertically?

To be more physically fit rather than becoming a Fitter, try landscaping, concrete work (if you’re brave enough to wear a mask for the dust and get called sissy all day long), or farm work if you’re interested in a wide variety of physically demanding tasks that are also dangerous.

Edit to the description of farm work

No.

But I would immediately buy a new laptop with a track ball and mouse buttons like this one

I’ve only seen one irl, and they are incredibly intuitive to use, and you don’t accidentally move the mouse while typing

Yes! Once a thing passes the nitpicker’s inspection, it is also good enough to pass the customers’ inspection

Similarly, if everyone at your work is constantly telling you “it’s not rocket science,” or something like that, look around for a job where being accurate and detailed is required. At least take up a highly detailed hobby.

Eh, they’re all just big and bigger islands, because every land mass is surrounded by water.

Haha when I want to try a new brand or location, I judge it by how good their vanilla is.

Yes, exactly. If the shop can’t make good vanilla, then they’re a gimmick shop.

That looks like a 3d printed shell over some sort of scannable chip that pairs with an app on a smart phone to require a physical action to unlock the full phone experience.

A printed QR code paired with an similar app would serve the same function.

Most people don’t think about how things work. I’d guess that most customers thought all the smart features were internal and the Internet connection was just an arbitrary requirement

Whatever you want. It might take a few ventures into different styles of writing, different goals of what kind of things to record, different viewpoints. Are you writing to your future self? Maybe to the diary as an entity in itself? Maybe you would want to write to a historian who finds this page later on? Whatever floats your boat, write that way.

For me, it’s all the stuff I’d want to tell someone close to me, things I’m excited or sad about, things I’m confused about and just need to see in writing to stop going in circles about it in my head.

You might check around, see if anyone around him can vouch for him making major life changes.

It’s really hard to know what to do. Both a changed dad who hopes to start new and an unchanged man who is just waiting for a chance to re-traumatize you would say similar things and be very friendly at first.

Yes. You can use it without understanding how it works behind the scenes. At some point, they’ll run into a situation where it is helpful to learn some part of how the fediverse works and then they can ask about it, generating more content and interaction along the way

Career advice be like:

Aha, occupant fatalities. I was hoping to find out if they were measuring people inside the cars mentioned or people in other cars or pedestrians or all of the above

It’s my understanding that LLM’s are thoroughly unsafe, always reporting everything it does and every input back to whoever made the LLM. So, wouldn’t it be easy for whoever owns the LLM to see what it’s being used for, and to refuse service to scammers?

Fixing the thought that you deserve it is the hard part. It’s a self-reinforcing worldview that colors everything that comes in. People can say exactly the right thing, but depression will twist the way that you perceive their words.

It seems like an opportunity for vehicle-to-vehicle charging, putting the power gained from gravity into another vehicle.

It would need to happen quickly and at the same time as unloading and it would have to keep enough energy to climb the hill plus a safety margin.