I live near Zurich, would be quite happy to maybe see Logan and Quain. They also should see the "Weinland" (Where I live, beautiful to hike), it's about an hour away from Zurich with the train.
Screwing up the keyboard on their ibm classic laptops was the first nail in the coffin... "superfish" was the the six foot hole and this devlopment just filled the grave with molten lead. everything pre t430/t440 i'll reccomend, newer hardware can rot alongside a pile of iStruggle's...
hopefully my t410 and w520 will last me a few years before i need an upgrade.. system 76 is looking grand atm.
nice Tek, cool to see the syndicate in Europe. looking foward to the upcoming shows. hopefully your not too swamped with editing.
my personal experience of it was when i fired up my vpn (cyberghost) i decided to monitor my connections with nirsoft currports. i connected to 1 of the streams i normally view with vlc player, low and behold every connection vlc made there was complimentary ping back to "vortex data microsoft com". basically every time vlc requested a new packet from the stream win 10 decided to tell microsoft about it. this was still happening after i blocked everything in the install setup and in settings, along with group policy and task scheduler. turns out as you said that this wasn't good enough. so i started blocking at the hosts level 30 addresses at first (july 30th). guess what. im up to 120 blocked addresses today (14th aug) and im gonna be adding at least 2 more as windows is still pinging home at boot time. now i understand that windows may occasionally need to ping home for things like validation checks and so on but having to block 120+ ips is a bit ridiculous.
after 2 weeks of using it i can say for certain this o.s isnt free, you pay for it with your privacy. and by using it in its default setup your allowing microsoft to make you there product.
+1 watched this shit on the company's network stream after the office made the switch to windows 10. showed the findings to the directors, were now in the process of moving to debian/ubuntu.
The modpack distribution without attribution problem was the entire reason that Mojang changed the Minecraft EULA to be super restrictive. This garbage scared away some of my favorite mod devs and is basically the reason I stopped playing. We can only hope that Valve and Bethesda handle this better.
Lenovo added spyware to their notebooks, then they buy Motorola. Then they f**k up with the first gen Moto X lollipop update, then launches two "Moto" phones that are inferior than their 2014 flagship.
Dell Latitude? Fujitsu Lifebook? Both geared toward the same segment as the Thinkpad. If you need something that will take a beating, you can also look at a Panasonic Toughbook. Those things will take anything short of a bullet. Or, if you don't throw your laptops around willy nilly, just grab any old laptop that meets your spec needs and is made by a reliable company.
There are plenty of alternatives to Lenovo. Besides, it's not like we're talking about a classic IBM Thinkpad here. They've gone down hill somewhat since those days. Not that they are bad, but back before IBM sold off it's PC department, they were essentially tanks.