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@Velocio - thanks for the battery tip! I think I'm going to try one of those...
@EstelleGetty - I've previously "destroyed" a couple of phones by spilling water on them/ dropping them in the toilet etc. In fact, I was always able to fix them using isopropyl alcohol (I bought it in a chemist pretty cheaply iirc) to clean off the crusty stuff from the motherboards, worked fine after. If you're happy to open your machine up yourself, might be worth doing the same. Magic stuff.
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I'm also an academic. I've been using a lenovo thinkpad x230 for the past 5+ years:
- Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3320M CPU @ 2.60GHz
- 16GiB RAM
- 240G SSD
I bought it refurbished on ebay about 4 years ago for maybe 120 quid. I bought another, spare one about 6 months ago for £150 including post and packing from UK to overseas (I live in France) with exactly the same spec except perhaps a 500G regular hard drive instead of the solid state. It came with windows on it (although I'm a GNU/Linux user). However, I've not needed to use it yet as the old one is still going strong - despite all the times I've dropped it etc.
EDIT: I should add it's a 12" screen and weighs I think about 1-1.5kg - very portable yet still a decent size when I need to use it on its own, traveling or whatever. At home or work, I plug in an external monitor and keyboard, plus sometimes another drive (if I want music, films or other media).
- Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3320M CPU @ 2.60GHz
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Crikey. I haven't really been following recently - gotta admit I've kind of got a bit bored with it all and I'd rather get on with my life at the moment. Plus I'm living in France and there's not much I can really influence/do about it all from here.... So reading your post gives me some pause for thought, and a bunch of questions.
Is what you say about Johnson potentially U-turning (again) in the summer a realistic scenario?
What's the viewpoint like from outside the London/SE bubble?
I'm vaguely thinking of coming back to the UK to do some (at least part-time) work... should I hold off on that, or should I continue with that idea?
Ok, so the last one isn't really Brexit related, it's a very personal thing. But I'm finding it hard to really judge the atmosphere at the moment, or the potential political realities.
Also, I have to say that the political future doesn't seem any/much brighter in France than it does in Blighty: Macron has taking a hammering in recent months (having already been pretty unpopular) and lots of people talk about the fact that come the next election, we're quite likely to be seeing a resurgence of the extreme Right (again) - with a probably more decent chance of getting into power than they've ever had in living memory. Scary.
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Great selection everyone, that was a really hard choice. Well done to all!
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A cat's Brexit, that's apparently what we're gonna get.... https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/18/boris-johnson-eu-deal-downing-street-negotiator-britain