Yeah, FWIW I recognise some of these users, and they’ve been fine. And Reddit hasn’t looked better when I’ve incidentally browsed through.

That’s actually amazing, and I think I just spawned a new project.

(Y’know, to distract from all the other ones)

The APIcalypse for me.

Slightly concerned by how many people here managed to get banned from the entire site.

Hah! You had me going for the first part.

This one might be the most heartwarming. All it took was a little hand-me-down.

I mean, certain strains of the right are critical of government and what they see as authoritarian systems. That gives me an idea how it started.

They’re generally well adjusted.

It does not say a good thing about humanity that you need significant personality flaws to care.

You could make an argument that’s a big gamble if you’re expecting to use up the principal at all. So, 10x what you use in a typical year would be an absolute minimum, and that would involve an aggressive portfolio that you run down when the market is bad and earn back later. 20x or 30x would be more comfortable, especially if there’s a chance you’re going to spend more than you did when working.

A bit of a hack people do make work is moving to a poor country where costs of living are lower. Then the question is how much lower can you actually get it, which is both about your personality and interests and how poor a place you’re willing to consider. Obviously, you can make $2 a day work, if you eat only corn and squat all day under a piece of aluminum. On the other hand, if you want to live the exact same way as at home down to brands, far afield can end up more expensive.

Generally it never was.

(Or even late or never, globally. The ancient system involves your kids paying for your way)

Interesting. What do ARM platforms have? BIOS and friends, as important as they are, always kind of come across as a precarious tower of baked-in technical debt.

(I know a Galaxy in particular uses a locked-down SoC you can’t really touch in the first place)

Hmm. Maybe we’ve found another dimension where brand matters, then.

Something in between enamel and plaque in hardness seems like the most advisable approach.

Is this the paper you’re looking at?

If you found something else, can I have a citation? It’s actually really hard to find hardness information on charcoal. Graphite is 0.5 on the Mohs scale, while tooth enamel is 5, for reference.

I can’t rule out that it’s actually harder than graphite and just seems softer due to being full of voids and crumbly. Then again, the activated charcoal in toothpaste isn’t exactly the same thing as the wood charcoal I’d be familiar with (or cow bone charcoal, for some reason).

Silica could wreck you, if there’s a significant amount. The silica in normal food is probably a big contributor to tooth wear. If like the other poster says it’s a common ingredient I wonder why.

I could totally believe that ThinkPads are more rugged under actual abuse. I don’t think Apple tries to be, really.

That being said, I have plenty of other younger laptops around that have been reduced to server usage do to falling apart. Apple’s early adoption of SSD also helps.

Sure?

Oh, I see.

Yup. If I had better things to do, would I be posting here?

Curiosity kills this cat. I’ll go with being rich but miserable.

Food staples. I know cans are old technology, but they fucking work. They’ll last at least literally forever, and depending on the item come surprisingly close in quality to the fresh or homemade item. Dried beans and pasta are also a great deal.

I can attest to this for older models. It’s really hard to know if standards have slipped in their luxury product era, though.

The MacBook I’m typing on (in Linux) is closer to 15.