Good folks of fedi,

My trusty ThinkPad is near the end of life. What are my options in India? Not much point trying to repair or upgrade it. No Windows or Apple. I run Linux. No gaming capabilities required. Light to medium weight. I travel often and can't lug around a heavy laptop. I write a lot, so keypad needs to be top notch. The cost is not a big constraint ATM.

And yes, no "AI integration" (ugh!)

#help

Lovely stuff

https://therepublicofletters.substack.com/p/calvin-and-hobbes-and-the-price-of

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116780494584602899

I remember seeing a post some weeks ago along the lines of nobody actually having said "let us use AI to crush the workers under our boot-heel", and at the time I thought it wasn't necessary to say cartoonishly evil statements in order to perpetrate evil.

But it seems cartoonishly evil statements may not be in short supply either.

Today I swam 30% more lengths than yesterday!

I just remembered that the first time my grandfather tried to teach me swimming was in a walled-off section of a large pond adjacent to a village house in Kerala, and there were a couple of snakes in the room with us. I guess it would make a good story to say he taught me swimming by making me escape the snakes, but he told me it wasn't a big deal, so I wasn't bothered.

Oh, and he made me a float by tying some coconuts together. In fact, that's the only flotation device I ever used (just that one time).

#swimming

#NewSpecies!
New lizard from #india just snuck in:

Coryphophylax krishnani

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CE87DE-FFE7-2D00-1E92-EB072655F802
Publication: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5768.2.2
#ZooKeys #CoryphophylaxKrishnani

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #fauna #herpetology #herps #reptiles #squamata #lizards