And sorry, obviously didn’t get your joke yesterday
Was still focused on the 2 answers related to red bull and thinking in actual drink associations o⁠:⁠-⁠)

Without joking, I can actually see this helping to get away from coke, as you still have the ritual and some effect - although minor in comparison of course

Yeah, true that, fuck him…

You can read more about the contents on the linked homepage, but it’s pretty much just caffeine and some other stuff, that should help (and they funnily enough claim everything from natural sources)

In my youth we just snorted caffeine pills, which work well enough

Cocaine isn’t really good for long term concentration.
Amphetamines would be better for that.

But… Let’s stay on topic o⁠:⁠-⁠)

It’s always just overpriced sugar water with caffeine and some stuff like taurin, vit b and so on

It’s never really good for one anyway, but yeah, drink whatever tastes ok for you and works good enough

I’ve gone though some store brands, but I’m always coming back to the classic RedBull.
Monster never really was my taste - but because of that, I also didn’t try that much different ones.

At the moment, I’m more happy with an occasional energy sniff and just a coke or water

What is?

If you put on the patterns directly, I’d very much impressed

RedBull is European/Austrian and the (more) original thing anyway

And if you’re fed up with energy drinks, Austrian innovation still got you covered ;⁠-⁠)
https://eu.wildkraut.com/?wildkraut_shop_country_selected
This is an energy sniff - and I’d actually love to see people going round taking sniffs/lines, just because it would disturb the picture of what is regarded normal ;⁠-⁠)

Still, use with caution, as obviously your nasal mucuos stuff won’t be happy about it after some time.
But it works quite well and I can work around my upset stomach - but as said, not a thing for every day

Many people don’t care that much - and yeah, I’m also suffering with the poor cable

And even instant energy for free as well, besides the water

Good thinking

Yeah, the black chassis looks fucking awesome

I’m having a Framework 16 and during work in a warehouse I produced a major scratch on it.
Would love to either do a cover up “tattoo” (like laser engraving) or just switch to a black chassis, if it becomes available for the F16

Either way, those things fucking rock

My little brother has an old ThinkPad, which I regard as good.
But the keyboard starts to die and he bought a new keyboard to replace.
You need to disassemble the complete laptop, just to change the keyboard - and there are a fuckload of screws and flimsy connectors.
Because of that age, I also guess, that those flimsy plastic brackets, holding the flat rippon cables, while easily break - at least that happend to me, when I tried to repair an really old piece of hardware

The idea of Framework is absolutely great
The only thing, that worries me, is the massive use of magnets, because working in a dirty industrial environment, it sucks up all the little metal pieces - and that killed the speakers of my last laptops at least, and brought that shit into PCB environment
Still, at its so easy to disassemble, I can just pull out the modules, even while the laptop is running, clean them up and put them back.

Fucking love this thing!

Ok, only wanted to say something about this nice black chassis and got carried off…

Can confirm
Don’t know what they build their watches with, but they seem to absolutely not care, when I smash them at concrete or steel
Which is good, because it’s my first watch again after like 20 years without one, and I needed quite some time to adapt - and still forget about it and demolish other stuff with it by accident

Ah, I see
Thank you very much :⁠-⁠)

If I remember right, it’s the Jamaican English dialect - if you even call still call it that

True that…
Happens too fucking often as well

I’m currently hunting a bug that happens like every 1000 iteration of the thing happening.
Like, I’m telling the hardware to do something and it works pretty much all the time, but over the day, the errors add up
I have no clue why it happens, but can’t really turn up the debug logs that much, because with so many things happening, I’d produce like a shitload of data.
But I can’t really narrow it down otherwise

And it seems we’re in the same kind of shit business ;⁠-⁠)
Real time processes and automation, with customers having problems at night shift, because the maintenance guys during that shift are usually not as good - or it’s just bad luck

At one of my last business trips I was already at the airport on my happily way home, when I’ve got call.
Needed to get my luggage back, new rental car and get a place at the hotel.
Just to discover, that after 15 years the hardware acted up in a way it never did before.
At least I could now include a warning message, if this weird situation ever happens again, but that was a tough one to swallow…

Best things are, when you throw in some debug output and that changes the timings just as much to not make the bug happen anymore

I’ve lost more hair to that, than my age…

We seemingly have a different opinion, what we regard as ‘fun’ ;⁠-⁠)

Stuff that can’t be reproduced and “only” comes up because of some timing issue/race condition is often the most shit to hunt for

I’m currently in such an adventure - and I thought I had it…but the statistics show, that it only got better, but didn’t catch all of the occurrences…

I’m always with those poor people needing to eat dirt, when the people thinking being in power can bring death to them

But there is currently just not much else I can do…

It’s really sad, that the Iranian regime is a fundamentalist pile of shit as well

So now, I’m just getting popcorn, while I still can afford it, and watch 2 sides battling a senseless war, which I don’t want any side to win

How should that work?
My GrapheneOS Android doesn’t look any different than any other Android - and they’d need to look at my screen while walking by or something.

They can’t even see the exact Android version without trying to access it - or having me show them explicitly my “About phone” screen or something

I really don’t see how that should work in practice

If they pick me out and want to scan my phone, then it could be used against me, that they can’t access my data.
But hey, that’s what GrapheneOS is here for, to don’t allow anyone access to my data, who shouldn’t have access

So, in practice this is not really relevant or do I misunderstand something?