James Sanders

If there’s one thing I miss about ThinkPads, it’s definitely the TrackPoint.

That’s a super position to take there, Dave.

Well, egg on face, a bit. (It's been a day...)

Though, I suspect the physics of it are somewhat worse when you've got a full-on notebook CPU under the charging pad, compared to a relatively lightweight MCU for handling minimal logic and I/O for a dock.

Intel's NUCs very briefly supported this. It was neat, though I do wonder what the thermal implications of this were, looking back.

It'd really be nice if I could get through a Windows Update reboot without Microsoft rolling the full-screen OOTB setup insisting that I use Edge as my default browser.

Here's a helpful primer for why this was (and remains) an intensely strange set of circumstances:

www.law.cornell.edu/wex/publicity

Not posh enough for that, it's been sitting in an ornate Swedish Design(tm) bookshelf called a Kallax, if my memory serves.

Selling my *very slightly* cursed laptops to balance my nerd budget. This is a 2007 Vista-era laptop I bought as new-old-stock in 2021 from a company that does IT for defense contractors.

It's got S-Video, VGA, and HDMI out, for some reason! And a 512 GB SSD.

$100 + shipping, or local-ish pickup.

the number of people saying this makes me wonder if The Year is finally upon us

It’s very funny, from a typesetting standpoint, that “Steven Crowder” was too long a name, so it’s just crowded in there by making it a smaller size than everyone else.

Sleep-deprived stream of consciousness posting is fun! (and sometimes dangerous!)

Those were at least years in which Automattic was not bad?

Hmm. Doesn’t seem to be on their website?

If I had a nickel for every time Franz Ferdinand was involved in the precursor events of a world war, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice

The funny thing is, I’ve got a different laptop that I’m looking to unload which is also very slightly cursed, but between the two, the other one is more likely to be classified as an SCP.

Doesn’t help that it was defense contractor surplus…

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Rollercoaster Tycoon!

Bonus RollerCoaster Tycoon shot.

It's got a 2.8 GHz *Desktop* Pentium 4, 1 GB RAM, ATI Radeon IGP 345M, and the original spinning disk was replaced with a 120 GB SSD. It can easily be reset to factory settings using the recovery partition, which was preserved in the drive change. The CPU was repasted a year ago. The display is a very crisp XGA (1024x768) LCD panel, which doesn't have ghosting issues. It's great fun for RollerCoaster Tycoon, but it can handle somewhat more demanding games as well. It's got the original power supply. Being a 20-year-old laptop, there are some caveats: First of all, it weighs eight pounds, lol. I've found one stuck pixel, but it's stuck as black, so it's not super noticeable. There is a DVD drive, but it unfortunately doesn't work. It'll also need a new CMOS battery. The actual device battery doesn't hold a charge, but it used a *Desktop* Pentium 4, so it maybe got 90 minutes battery life when it was new.

The Vaio, in action.

Between a recent trip to Japan and buying a new laptop, my nerd budget is in a significant deficit.

Anyone want to buy a *very slightly* cursed Sony Vaio? $100 plus shipping, or local-ish pickup.

Dredging this one up again, as Daylight Saving Time sadly reappears. I actually owned one of these watches.

It’s still a good idea (well, it’s nearly a good idea). Too bad about Nick Negroponte, though.

I did start that post with “Assuming that…” but then reworded the rest of the sentence.

It’s a valid concern, but that also assumes steady-state demand, which is also no guarantee.

Considering Intel Foundry and Rapidus, alongside TSMC’s expansion in Kyushu and Arizona, we’re going to have a lot more leading edge foundry space in a couple of years.

Adopting this phrase, generically.

“I wouldn't waste the tokens.”

PageMaker and Aldus founder, pioneer Paul Brainerd 1947-2026

blog.adafruit.com/2026/03/04/p...

<- a personal hero of mine. Aldus had more taste in design than Adobe ever could aspire to.

Funny thing is, IBM is up to Power11 now.

I’m sure there are pirate sites for this, but they’re usually stingy with watch limits, so you’ve got to refresh the page every so often.

Makes it more of a question of F5 than F1, I suppose.

We turned away from the light when we invented a way to go online without the computer screaming in warning.

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I’ve had no such issues after a year.