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Semi related: A couple of years ago a waste facility in Berlin measured increased levels of radio activity and traced it back to a restaurant where 13 cards laced with radioactive Iodine-125 were found:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42157129

I couldn't find anything about how the cheat actually worked, though. In Mongolia they found radioactive dice at an airport: https://conferences.iaea.org/event/16/contributions/7187/att...

Do you happen to know some software to repair/improve video files? I'm in the process of digitalizing a couple of Video 2000 and VHS casettes of childhood memories of my mom who start suffering from dementia. I have a pretty streamlined setup for digitalizing the videos but I'd like to improve the quality a bit.

I worked in some companies that had this popup, and the most common goal was to harvest email addresses for newsletters.

Ooh, I've never looked into it, but I would have thought that with this feature the website explicitly does NOT get my email address. Silly me, still believing some features are meant for the user.

The article opens with a somewhat moot point. The Factor Ostro VAM mentioned is a pro bike and costs around $10,000 - so it's no wonder that it also requires professional screwdrivers and the corresponding tools.

I was still in school in the first half of the 2000s and spent a lot of my hard earned money on more or less useful and smart hardware, especially smartphones (mostly called PDA-phones in the pre-iPhone era) and with hardware keyboard. I think my first device was the HTC Blue Angel. I also had a Treo 600 and the Palm Abacus. Those were really nice devices, PalmOS was way better than Windows Mobile and worlds better than Symbian UIQ.

Fun times.

I haven't checked yet, but I'll do.

But I'm kind of glad, that it finally had an error. I wanted to buy a newer one for a long time, but I didn't want to toss out a perfectly functioning notebook and it was too beat-up to sell or even donate it.

Really though I miss the old old days when you could get an ultrabay battery. What do I need in a laptop more than storage? Battery life. I had a Fujitsu Lifebook which had an "ultrabay" (their version of it, at least) and that was the feature I used most for it.

Well, nowadays you can get a power bank with Power Delivery and charge your laptop via USB-C port

I t420s fell out of my opened backpack a couple of days ago. Not the first time it fell, once I even stepped on it - but after the last drop the display has some problems and i have to push on a certain point to get it working, which made me put it to it's well deserved retirement.[*]

In need of an quick alternative I bought a Dell XPS 13 9343. I like this a lot - it has a way nicer display, the form factor is just great for my needs, build quality is good and even the keyboard feels right (missing a trackpoint tho). Unfortunately it supports Microsoft's "Modern Standy", which is a fancy name for s2idle - which just doesn't work using Linux, at least I couldn't get it to work . When in s2idle it looses power and does not reliably wake up, in s3 it goes to sleep but needs a hard reset to wake up.

Waiting for my t470s now, as far as I know the latest Thinkpad generation stat supports classic s3 sleep.

*: Actually it lives on as a small NAS/Homeserver. It even packs three disks (M2 SSD, HDD in the HDD slot and an Ultrabay-HDD adpter).