It’ll probably be a brick in a few months, when the company goes bankrupt and the servers it relies on get shut down. So even getting it for free would be too expensive.

They’re all 7/9.

Can confirm - mine has neither, it’s a challenge.

Yep, Adobe software still phones home even when it’s cracked. But there’s supposedly a list of hosts you can block to stop this behaviour: https://a.dove.isdumb.one/list.txt

Yes I bought it ~3 years ago directly from Lenovo and the rubber feet look just like the ones in that photo.

I have an L390 Yoga (i7) and these feet are indeed way too large.

The device is painful to use even with the correct feet, though - at least if you’re using Windows. It’s constantly overheating, because the cooling system is just reused from the L380 and can’t handle the heat of my i7 8565U processor. But hey - at least the marketing people were able to put “4.6GHz” into the specs.

I have to undervolt the CPU to make it run cool and prevent thermal throttling, which is not possible anymore if you’re running a current Windows version.

That thing is probably the last Thinkpad I’ve ever bought, to be honest.

Also, if you’re wondering what that port with network symbol is, it appears to be a proprietary connector used on ThinkPads requiring an “Ethernet Extension” adapter to be usable.

Yup, the port is called “MicroLAN” and the adapter was 30-50€ back when the device was new. It’s of poor quality (the rubber of the cable on mine is turning into a sticky mess) and entirely passive.

Lenovo must’ve looked at Apple’s accessory profits and thought they wanted to make money off of crap, too.

Similar experience: One guy was seeding all of the old uncensored episodes of The Three Investigators and I’m so grateful for that. It’s pretty popular here in Germany, but despite that, no one seems to share it. There are episodes on Spotify, but they are censored and some of the music has been replaced with a modern rendition.

I wasn’t lying when I said that I go to the cinema almost every week! :D Tomorrow I’ll watch the new Deadpool movie.

These ones I really enjoyed in the last few years:

• The Whale (whole room was crying at the end)
• The Quiet Girl (surprise Irish movie that made my emotions come out)
• Spy x Family - The Movie (great humour)
• Civil War (shocking images, the mood change was brutal)
• The Boy and the Heron (my first Miyazaki experience, what a wild ride)
• Wonka (I’m not into musicals, but this was awesome as fuck)
• Inside Out 2 (great orchestral soundtrack, well-written and relatable)
• No Hard Feelings (worst trailer of all time, but the movie was very wholesome and funny)
• Furiosa (I’ve watched that in IMAX with Dolby Atmos. FUCKING awesome.)
• Robot Dreams (Cute animation + Twin Towers, nice combo)
• Encanto (Disney + great plot + emotions)
• To Catch a Killer / Catch the Killer (great crime movie!)
• Barbie (they criticize Mattel and it’s really empowering for women, I liked it)
• The Batman (dark, gritty, brutal - that’s how it’s supposed to be)
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (I can’t even describe how awesome this is)
• Dungeons & Dragons (I never played DnD, but this was well-written, creative and entertaining)
• The Super Mario Bros. movie (great humour and Jack Black does an awesome singing performance)

These movies are solid. Not great, but still very enjoyable:

• The Fall Guy (cool stunts!)
• Challengers (a bit weird, but I liked the message at the end)
• Fly Me to the Moon (solid acting, interesting premise, not every joke works)
• The Bikeriders (a movie about a biker gang. Cool.)
• Dune Part I + II (great SciFi flicks, but veeery long)
• The Teachers Lounge (we produce one good movie per year here in Germany. This is one.)
• The Holdovers (good acting, but the plot was stolen from someone else, sooo…)
• Migration (very well written for a childrens movie)
• Next Goal Wins (funny soccer movie)
• The Creator (omg, those visuals!)
• A Haunting in Venice (good mystery crime movie, but don’t expect to be able to solve the riddle by yourself)
• M3GAN (another murder puppy movie, but pretty modern)

And these movies are pretty bad or just disappointing:

• Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (Family Drama: The Movie)
• Problemista (I wanted to like it, but it’s just weird, unfunny and incoherent)
• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (the disappointing fourth entry of a great trilogy)
• Miller’s Girl (this movie is just an excuse to put Jenna Ortega in tight outfits)
• Demon Slayer: Hashira Training movie (half of the movie is just a rerun of the last episodes, fuck you)
• Madame Web (bad writing, bad CGI, bad everything)
• The Beekeeper (Jason Statham kills everyone, but it was just boring)
• Wish (all bad things about past Disney movies combined into a soulless new one)
• Killers of the Flower Moon (way too long, laziest fucking ending I’ve ever seen)
• The Equalizer 3 (Walking around and nothing happens - The Movie)
• Falling for Figaro (an opera movie with the most cliche romance plot ever, total garbage)
• The Little Mermaid (all underwater scenes are dark as fuck, what is this?)
• 65 (Jurassic Park with no budget and Adam Driver)

…and then there’s also “The Zone of Interest”. I wouldn’t say I enjoyed it, but it’s definitely an experience. You could’ve heard a hairpin drop at the cinema and it was packed with people. No one bought popcorn. I wish every fascist here in Germany would be forced to watch that one and think about their stupid beliefs.

I believe the Despicable Me series peaked with the second one. Everything after that feels like soulless cashgrabs to sell Minions merch.

The only good thing about the fourth movie is the opening music.

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I like movies and I like the atmosphere at my local cinema. I’m going there almost every week. Most of the time I bring my own snacks. I think they just ignore me because I’m like…their best customer, lol. :D

I do order a drink every time. But eating popcorn or nachos every week sounds like a nightmare, and that’s all they have there.

Breast cancer

Two of my coworkers in their early 20’s got it. One of them didn’t make it. It’s so fucking sad…

laughs in dual Xeon v4’s

444438969 was a great handle. RIP.

I’ve seen the occasional copyright notice on that site before, it was inevitable.

Slowly!

I had more luck meeting people on a penpal app than getting a single match on any of the major dating apps. The algorithm just always seems to sort me out. It can really mess with your self esteem when you’re never getting a single match or reply to your messages.

It’s definitely not me, because I get hundreds of letters on Slowly, where it’s actually about communication and I’m even going on a vacation with a girl I met there next week.

Tinder & Co. are useless, objectifying apps that build on greed and should be burned to the ground.

Same. My mental health has drastically improved since then.