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4GB works. My kids use a T410 from 2010 with a SSD and it is a pleasant experience for daily use (browsing, YouTube, small Linux games)

Happy cake day! 🍰

The eagle as a symbol predates the nazis - a lot. The „Reichsadler“ has been used since 800 A.D. as in the region that is now Germany:

The Reichsadler, i. e. the German Imperial Eagle, originated from a proto-heraldic emblem that was believed to have been used by Charlemagne, the first Frankish ruler whom the Pope crowned as Holy Roman Emperor in AD 800, and derived ultimately from the Aquila, i. e. eagle standard, of the ancient Roman army.

Edit: of course the Nazis twisted this as well. To decide, if the eagle has to go, we need more details:

During Nazi rule, a stylised eagle combined with the Nazi swastika was made the national emblem (Hoheitszeichen) by order of Adolf Hitler in 1935.

Despite its medieval origin, the term “Reichsadler” in common English understanding is mostly associated with this specific Nazi-era version. The Nazi Party had used a very similar symbol for itself, called the Parteiadler (“Party’s eagle”). These two insignia can be distinguished as the Reichsadler looks to its right shoulder whereas the Parteiadler looks to its left shoulder.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichsadler

Came to say this. Ginko is a symbol for longevity. I’d take it over a heart, @daddyjones@lemmy.world

This @cheezits@lemmy.ca! I run Linux Mint on a T410 with 4 GB of Ram and a 250 GB SSD and the user experience is quite ok for normal day to day usage like playing light games, browsing and HD video streaming.

+1 for Linux Mint for the power user. They will fell familiar and can start their journey from there. The most important concept I would explain would be package managers and flat pack, as in vanilla Windows there is no such thing.

The second one would be regular updates and that you have to do a little maintenance from time to time

Mint would be my recommendation for the noob as well. It is a clean distro and does not require a lot of maintenance except regular updates.

It is cross platform. Users can try it, regardless of the OS and do not have to switch behavior when switching the OS.

Use a service with card DAV support like https://posteo.de.

My contacts are synced between an iPhone, Linux Mint and a Mac. My Parter syncs between an iPhone and a Windows PC (Witt Thunderbird as mail Client).

Great answer.

I use posteo.de and sync between Thunderbird on Linux, Thunderbird on OS X, Apple Mail on Desktop and iOS without problems. Calendar and contacts, too. My partner syncs between iPhone and Thunderbird on Windows.

The service is a German privacy aware mail service. It is 1€/Month.

Edit: didn’t see that you ruled out Posteo already. I still think it’s a great mail service.

Corporate Users. My guess is, that almost any office job where you work on a Computer has Windows as OS. You have a license for your job. The license for home usage is bonus money to Microsoft.

I love the rubber band hack!

How was your experience? What information did you miss, to make this a smooth transition?

I would try the „retina formula“ to see, if the upgrade would benefit me.

Basically apples retina displays are engineered, that either the selected pixel density, pixel size and typical viewing distance, single pixels cannot be seen by the human eye. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retina_display?wprov=sfti1#Rationale

If you have a small tv and it is several meters away from you, my guess would be that the difference is not that big.

This is my experience as well. I would add: if you like to tinker and have time to spare, use Linux. If you want a Unix and have more money than time, buy a Mac.

Best played with headphones.

Hotaru is firefly in English and this reminds me of one.

Well, it is nice OP got an answer from someone, who is clearly more knowledgeable than I am. Thanks!

There are two questions to answer:

• which current and voltage do the LED strips need (5V, 2A would be something you could support with USB 2).
• what output does the charger provide as a maximum? Is it enough to power both strips (5V and two times the A).

If these match it should work. Another topic could be the cable itself. Theoretically it could start to burn, if you try to channel to much current through it, but with simple USB I doubt it. If it is getting hot after some time, scrap your setup. This would be a fire hazard.

Are you aware, that 360 is a full circle? Opposite would be 180.