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I recently purchased a T480s and after taking it apart to do a badly-needed clean, half the screws inside are missing, e.g. no screw for SSD, only 1 for the battery, various ones for the connections etc.

If I buy a specific set for the T480s, they're like £35, so I'm thinking of buying a large generic set from ali - what sizes do I need though?

M2 x 3, M2 x 4? for both the normal and the 'fat head' shorter ones?

Are there any others?

Also, bonus question, the previous owner did something funky with the screen and the sides don't seem to be pushed in equally all the way around - can I simply just apply force and push the screen into its housing so the sides align up equally, or do I need to actually take it apart?

The longer you are on lemmy, the more you can step back and see the ebb and flow of manipulative posts in and out of circulation to create rifts between people and create short-lived topics of ‘conversation’ to busy the people here. The general anti-capitalism direction is pandered to singing the tune people think they want to hear and is no different I’m sure to the many bot posts aimed at facebook users to play the tune they also want to hear to manipulate, and get them to come back.

I’m sure facebook, twitter, and the other shitty social sites are far worse but for over a decade, a deep level of warfare has been fought online via manipulation and disinformation and young people are far too easily manipulated by a post because well, obviously a real person wrote it, right? Right? There’s even a picture of their face and everything!

So, I’d like to ask lemmy users to be particularly on guard, both here and any other site they visit with ‘user’ postings on in the future, and to perhaps step back, stop visiting sites, posts, forums, etc outside of your hobbies, and ignore it all. That’s the only way to be immune to the noise and to lead a better life. Whatever that direction is for you. Also, help your friends ignore the noise and help them focus on visiting information about just their hobbies.

Early internet was just information about hobbies and for the betterment of people and furthering knowledge. Let’s take that back.

I remember a time when visiting a website that opens a javacript dialog box asking for your name so the message "hi " could be displayed was baulked at.

Why does signal want a phone number to register? Is there a better alternative?

Presumably Trump is attacking projects that enhance privacy along with other open source projects. How does this realistically affect the future and security of open source projects?

So sorta semi-TIL post. For men, smoking cigarettes causes epigenetic changes which means (as I understand it) that the DNA damage caused by smoking is passed on to their children. The male sperm is damaged from the effects of smoking. There is a 'significant' chance of it causing "developmental disorders" which includes autism, ADHD and intellectual disability.

Honestly, search for the articles yourself, there are many and it's an interesting rabbit hole. I do question how long this has been known to the cigarette companies who conduct their own research.

The UK has banned smoking cigarettes for under 16s for a reason. Making such a huge policy change like that must be for a very damaging reason. NZ did too, but pussied out - presumably from the lobbying.

So I just wanted to touch base and ask who has a father who smokes / used to smoke regardless of whether you've been officially diagnosed or think you may be autistic?

EDIT: I actually expected lots of downvotes for this post. There's a great film called "Thank you for smoking" which everyone should watch.

Remember when every American boasted about being part Irish/Scandinavian/French/Italian/Spanish etc. Actors used to love doing it in their bio, and the average American would do too.

No one does now. Why?

With no more nationality by birthright currently (though completely unconstitutional), then most every person is a child of two immigrants at some point, so ICE should be disappearing them.

And that South African white guy has said he was an illegal immigrant so he could be quickly disappeared. Everyone needs to make a report to ICE about him. As he's still in the country, then every immigrant could come clean and publicly announce their illegal status and would be ok, right...Right?

I'm not American so have given up trying to understand the actions of a mad man. Watching White House meetings with Trump and his ~~senior advisors~~ sycophants is funny. It must be really scary for the leaders of other countries trying to make sense of it all.

https://wtname.com/donald/

I wonder what "Donald" means in American?

Here's my hot take. DOGE is actually about collecting information under the guise of 'saving money'. This information will then be used to train AI networks for products that e.g. Musk sells to the US and world-wide goverments to make decisions.

This is why I think Musk is trying to curry favour with other politicians around the world to collect even more information to train for products for them. e.g. in the UK, Nigel Farage who has been paid by Musk, is now singing Musk's tune stating that each local council "needs a DOGE" (for no apparent reason) and shouldn't be doing things like making local decisions to help climate change. Removing power from local councils would create a more powerful goverment... a fascist state perhaps...?

There was a lot of talk about using AI to power goverments at the start of Trump's term which is now very quiet.

Thoughts?

I remember some time ago installing an app that allowed me to film in the background whilst having another app open on top. I believe this was from f-droid. I actually have a legitimate use for this.

Could someone please suggest its name if they know, either from f-droid or a decent (trustworthy) app from the play store please.

It can remember specific, targeted things about you that perhaps tracking from cookies couldn't easily detect from you. I think the free AIs will exploit everything you type into it and deliver specific targeted advertisements for products instead perhaps of giving longer, more useful explanations.

Around the time / maybe just before OpenAI wanted to become a profit-driven company, it implemented memory, obviously for a specific reason!

Thoughts?

With the country getting hotter, the ground underneath most houses in London will be drying out and becoming softer due to clay soil shrink-swell, leading to a massive increase in insurance claims for subsidence.

No one will want to buy a house with known subsidence because insurance normally only covers repairs for subsidence if it wasn't mentioned in the original survey report.

This is going to mean a huge reduction in houses prices all around London as they try to offload their houses that will need remedial action undertaking to prevent damage to the house.

This page shows a map of how London is going to be affected.

Most susceptible are properties in the highly-populated London areas, particularly in northern and central London boroughs, and Kent in the South East. Projections suggest that the number of properties in London likely to be affected by climate will rise from 20 per cent in 1990, to 43 per cent by 2030, and almost 3 times 1990 values (57 per cent) by 2070.

https://www.bgs.ac.uk/news/maps-show-the-real-threat-of-climate-related-subsidence-to-british-homes-and-properties/