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I bought its "little bro" Ideapad Flex 5 a few months ago for about A$1.4k. [i7, 16GB / 512GB] Ran Win11 long enough to make it let go of the SSD (kill "fast start") then repartitioned it and loaded Ubuntu. Very happy with it. Much lighter than my other lappies, battery runs pretty much all day, so I don't need to lug the charger around a lot of the time. Feels solid, looks to be well engineered articulated hinges, magnetic closure is nice. About the only beef I have with it is that, like so many others around that size, the cursor up/down keys are half height. Keyboard backlight is a nice extra for late night use. Not a fan of touchpads, so I got a logitech pebble too.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I'm holding out for a 12 point touch screen. 
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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My Lenovo ThinkPad eraser head pointer goes into a drift sometimes that is hard to stop. It acts like I'm still pushing on it when I'm not. Very annoying. I have not found any device properties that I can adjust.
If I have a lot of work to do I connect an external mouse to avoid the problem.
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It sounds like yours is physically worn out.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I just got a Samsung Book3 pro 360. I maxed it out on memory and have a TB SSD. I love that sucker. I got the bigger one with the larger keyboard and screen.
I don't think it will take a physical beating. It is soo light. But, it has taken every programming number crunching things I have thrown at it for a month or more.
Lenovo, i think they are better than they were last year.
Dell I agree throughly middle of the road nothing special. and I think they are going down hill because of no competition.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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As the subject line says - not something I came up with, but I like it. I stole it from this discussion when researching the topic.
In any case. Not a programming question.
I like to label my fields, listboxes, etc so if the user is only allowed to make a single selection, the label is singular. If the user is allowed multiple selections (including just one), I like to indicate it as such by using a label such as "Widget(s)" (as opposed to "Widgets"). Maybe I'm thinking like a developer (or so I'm told), but to me the parens make it clear making multiple choices is possible, but still just an option.
One of my coworkers hates this. Or to use the example from the discussion at the link above, something like "Party(ies)".
What's your preference? Or has your company adopted something formal?
I'm thinking this might be a good survey question.
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If 1 - Singular
if 1 or more - Plural
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But do you use the plural version using the parenthesis, is really my question. That's what my co-worker hates, to the point of having searched our entire codebase and checking in "corrections"...
I'm okay with that...just wondering what the world at large thinks...
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I wouldn't put Parenthetical Pluralization in a UI. Even a Tooltip should be along the lines of "Select one or more Widgets", "Select up to ten Parties".
In documentation sure, but only when it's a simple (s), (ies) is an abomination. Better to reword the statement to avoid the issue and possibly the meaning will be clearer as a result.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: In documentation sure, but only when it's a simple (s), (ies) is an abomination
You should see what they are doing here in Germany with the genders in texts...  
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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What a waste of effort, 2 keys to insert a parenthwhatever and adds very little to the readability of the code, actually I think it detracts from the readability. Besides the information should be in the comments!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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I think he's using it in the UI, not the code...
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Works for me. I use for clarity at little expense.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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In Stock, On order, Invoice Items ... are more instructive. "Widget" is a "type of" field and maybe shouldn't even be a "label". Depends on the context.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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dandy72 wrote: I like to label my fields, listboxes...One of my coworkers hates this...What's your preference? Or has your company adopted something formal?
My preference is that people would recognize that a UI should be written with the user of the UI in mind and not the developer.
That said of course for any UI that is actually going to get used substantially the user is not going to care about small oddities in how the boxes are labeled. After just a short while they will intuitively know what each box is without reading anything at all.
What they do care about is that the UI and the rest of the application actually works. So might be better to focus on that.
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How do you feel about online data storage? Is it really secure?
Paranoid.
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The data can be technically secure, but then there's always this...
xkcd: Security
With this out of the way...
If I absolutely, positively, had to upload data I don't want shared, I'd only be uploading TrueCrypt (or similar) file containers. That'd be missing the point of convenience, but that's hardly ever part of the question when it comes up.
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I use OneDrive as it's the easiest way to share stuff between my desktop, Surface, and phone - but if it's anything I don't want public, it gets encrypted first. (Even if it's just "normal" photos with identifiable humans in).
Is it secure? I assume it's at the "Chocolate Teapot" security level. 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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That's exactly what I use it for as well - I have a bunch of tiny, self-contained utilities (one EXE, no install, etc - think the SysInternals stuff) that I like to keep up to date and synchronized across the systems I use. OneDrive is great for that.
If it gets breached? Obviously I'll be concerned there was a breach at all, but the fact that those files got compromised is completely unimportant.
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I also use OneDrive for general stuff. It has a section called "Personal Vault" requiring 2FA with Microsoft Authenticator that I use for more sensitive stuff.
Really sensitive stuff stays on an SSD in a bank vault. Different levels of paranoia 
Mircea
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I don't put any of my data online, not knowingly anyway.
Who knows what security they have and even then it can be hacked. Not that I have top secret information, I just don't want anyone to know about that cheeze-whiz incidence.
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No one can protect your stuff as well as you can.
If security is important, then don't let anyone else have your stuff.
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Yes.
It's secure. (as secure as you can keep your own password secure).
It's friggin' practical.
It's safe in case of catastrophic failure.
Remember that 99.9% (made up statistic) of people do not have the technical knowledge or discipline to make backups and duplicating backups and storing the duplicate backup offsite and also to make sure the backup actually works.
I'm happy with the cloud
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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Makes sense ... We use GDrive for shared work in a team of 4.
It works great for remote work from home office.
BTW, I like your definition of CI/CD
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