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I bought a laptop. A screaming monster of a Lenovo with an i9-13900HX Intel processor and an NVidia RTX 4090 in it.
I bought it to run linux on a machine small enough to keep in my workspace and so when I visit my sister we could game together.
I don't usually buy laptops. I spent $4500 USD on one and it was stolen twice, recovered fortunately both times, and finally died when I dropped it. The one I had after that I spent much less on, and it was stolen. That time it had all my hours logged for work that week. What a mess. It wasn't the money I was out on the laptop in that case, but the fact that work related stuff got messed up.
And that's the thing. Even with source control, laptops are a liability. Consequently I don't use them - typically.
But I almost need one if I want to continue my ARM stuff as I refuse to dualboot my primary machine, and VMs interfere with some of the stodgy USB tools I have for linux for coding these arm boards. I don't have room for another desktop. Finally the clincher was, my sister and I are pretty close, and whenever I'm over there we want to game together, but my desktop is all tempered glass, heavy, fragile, and hard to transport.
So in the end I went and treated myself to a monster of a machine. I got a smokin deal on it.
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1745684-REG/lenovo_82wq002tus_16_legion_pro_7.html[^]
As an aside, I was pretty amused that this site won't take orders on Saturday, due to Shabbat. It's not something I was expecting in the age of instant everything all the time online.
There's smoke in my iris
But I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids
So I'm ready now (What you ready for?)
I'm ready for life in this city
And my wings have grown almost enough to lift me
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Sweet buy. Jealous.
Interesting coincidence as I am going through the same buying search.
Had Lenova many moons ago and it lasted and lasted.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Good luck on your search!
There's smoke in my iris
But I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids
So I'm ready now (What you ready for?)
I'm ready for life in this city
And my wings have grown almost enough to lift me
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Honey,
Have a good weekend.
Micro-dosing is doing its job, eh?
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Scuze me who are you?
And I don't know what it is you think you know about me, but you don't.
Find a hobby. It looks like you desperately need one. Reported for trolling. Your account too. Enjoy it while it lasts.
There's smoke in my iris
But I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids
So I'm ready now (What you ready for?)
I'm ready for life in this city
And my wings have grown almost enough to lift me
modified 26-May-23 13:55pm.
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Keep in mind Lenovo was IBM back then. A few years back it was acquired by a Chenese company(only the Lenovo brand, not the IBM) so don't count on the "lasted" part.
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Understood. I forgot about the IBM selling Lenova. You are right.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Not exactly, Lenovo is a Chinese company which bought IBM's personal computer business back in 2005. Maybe you thought of Thinkpad, brand of IBM laptops sold then.
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Single Step Debugger wrote: so don't count on the "lasted" part.
I have owned two ThinkPad laptops from after the Lenovo acquisition. The first one died at around 9 years old, and the second is 7 years old and still working very well.
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honey the codewitch wrote: this site won't take orders on Saturday, due to Shabbat
I found that a few years ago, ordering some photographic equipment. Why should the site work at all if they simply don't allow ordering? Bizarre.
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I'm wondering if it was the same site - B&H Photo?
Apparently they are very popular.
Edit: I'm guessing there's someone that has to process the order somehow the way their backend works. It must not be fully automated.
There's smoke in my iris
But I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids
So I'm ready now (What you ready for?)
I'm ready for life in this city
And my wings have grown almost enough to lift me
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honey the codewitch wrote: B&H Photo?
Well, yes, I had hoped that it would be clear that I meant them. To the best of my recollection I ordered some 8mm movie film.
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I am guessing that when you look at the site, you're only 'looking' which is allowed on shabbat. Taking an order constitutes a financial transaction and is probably regarded differently.
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I'm guessing it's the "Writing" prohibition: This includes all forms of writing and drawing.
Typing, printing, and using a rubber stamp all come under this heading.
The main objective of writing is the keeping of records, and therefore, the spirit of the law forbids any activity normally requiring a written record. Thus, the Sanhedrin forbade all sorts of business activity, as well as marriage and divorce on the Sabbath. (Note 20)
Calculations and measurements are also included, since they also normally involve writing. Since taking an order would involve making a record, a strict interpretation would allow the site to remain, but ordering to be forbidden as you'd have to update a database.
I'm not Jewish though, so I could be well wrong! 
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Which is all well and good, but surely even tracking my search, writing to temporary tables, writing to a cookie on my system, is still a violation if they want to get like that.
And out-sourcing the data center would surely resolve any issues they may still have.
An online search is not equivalent to "window shopping" when a shop is closed.
Anyway, I find it bizarre that they don't simply put up a "closed for Shabbat, come back tomorrow" splash screen. It would be a lot more helpful.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: I find it bizarre that they don't simply put up a "closed for Shabbat, come back tomorrow" splash screen.
Keeping to the Shabbat can get quite a bit more bizarre than that: Why There's a Single, Tiny Wire Encircling Manhattan - YouTube[^]
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Oh, I knows it. But the Lounge is no place for such things.
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I think that we can take it as read that all religions have practices or beliefs that appear bizarre to outsiders. And yes, the Lounge is the wrong place for this discussion. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Do they allow you to add item to a wishlist?
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I am Jewish, and I can tell you that no observant Jew would have their place of business open on the Sabbath, even if all the staffers were non-Jews.
As for keeping the web site going, there is no prohibition against leaving a mechanism that was operating before the Sabbath to operate on the Sabbath. For example, there is no problem turning an electric light on before the Sabbath and have it stay on all the Sabbath. In like manner, there is no reason to shut down the web site.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: there is no reason to shut down the web site
But why disable one part of it while leaving most of it fully active?
It still seems similar to leaving the shop open to allow browsing and comparing prices, but just no sales.
Even the history of browsing should still be recorded for analytics.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Since taking an order would involve making a record
Interesting question.
To me the following makes it clear that the work applies to humans. Only.
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It actually says the computer can be left on and one can even interact with it in a limited way.
Logically I could also see that if this was not the case then one would need to turn off the refrigerator.
Or what about even an irrigation system? Would a farmer need to turn that off? Following says no.
https://www.yeshiva.co/ask/55872[^]
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How many angels are there on the head of a pin?🙄
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How many angels are there on the head of a pin?🙄
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That is quite steep. I get it, an i9 with a 4090. Surprised they can cool it satisfactorily. Do the fans start to scream when you're playing doom or something like that?
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