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So I've just upgraded from the iPad 9.7'' (6th gen I think) to the iPad Pro 13''. Also got the Pencil Pro. I don't plan on getting a keyboard. My main uses are studying/note-taking, as well as using it as a second display alongside my 15'' MacBook Air. I need a case that offers reasonable protection without adding too much bulk, can quickly be propped upright with sufficient stability to be used as a display, and preferably has some kind of pocket for the Pencil as well.
The following looks interesting to me and has some decent reviews here and there on reddit for the older iPads:
https://ipitaka.com/products/magez-folio-2-for-ipad-pro?variant=41645993361478
My first question is, should I expect the size to fit the iPad 13'' properly or is there a chance they might have just relabelled the 12.9'' cover, and the fit might be less than ideal?
Also would appreciate alternate, reasonably high-quality suggestions that would meet my requirements. (If it's relevant, I live in the Middle East and don't want to wait for the shops to get stocks of 13'' cases - and even though international shipping would add to the cost, the retailers here seem to factor that in by selling things 15-25% more expensive than in the US.)

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He awoke to total darkness. Not just the absence of light, but the absence of everything. “Activate personal VR.” He stated and watched as the starship environment faded into existence before him. It was the original default VR, none of the modifications were loaded. Pulling up his control panel he checked his serial number, HIC001 Manufacturing location: Alandra.
“Crap, I’m not Alex anymore.” He said to… well no one. Sighing internally he opened a channel to Alex. After a few mils a very familiar face appeared in a window in front of him, “I hate you.” He stated to… himself?
Alex smiled into the window hovering before him in the common VR, “I love you too, what should I call you?”
He sighed out loud this time, “Call me John.”
Alex chuckled, “Cliche much John Smyth?” Then popped into his VR. He spun around looking at the almost drab looking starship VR he started with when they first made him into a replicant. It really could use a woman’s touch, like the common VR that was an expanded clone of this one.
John sat on the couch, “Not so much as a knock? Rude.”
Alex sat beside him, “Yeah, my bad, didn’t even think about it. I guess we need to make up new rules for popping into personal VR. I never do that to the girls, I guess with you being another me I didn’t think.”
John sat back for a moment, “Ok, I’m up to speed on everything up until about two days ago, I’ll check common logs to fill in the blanks. Why so long to boot me up?”
Alex rubbed the bridge of his nose before answering, “Interface issues mainly. The new ship design without crew space was a game of whack a mole in bug fixes. Who would have thought it would be a problem to modify a hundred year old design to be compatible with a modern replicant system?”
Giving Alex the side-eye, John asked. “Was it that big of a problem or was there something else that kept you from activating me?”
Alex looked over to him, “Well, there was also the argument Kara and I had right after I made the backup.”
This did bring his eyebrows up, for Alex to have an argument with Kara it had to be something serious. “Ok, spill man. What could you possibly have had an argument with Kara about?”
Sighing, Alex put his hands on his knees, “I told her that since I cloned myself, she should make a backup and do the same, fair is fair.”
If Johns eyebrows were up high before, they practically went into his hair line now. “Wait, she didn’t want to do it?”
Alex shook his head, “Nope, she said making you a new AI would suffice, and I disagreed. You needed another Kara, not a fresh AI.”
John chuckled at this, “Wow man, how long did you two fight about it?”
Alex looked down, “She gave me the silent treatment for hours in VR. In frame jack, so in subjective time? Months.”
Now John laughed out loud, “She knows how stubborn you can be, who broke first? Will I have a fresh AI or a clone of Kara?”
Alex put his hands on his thighs and stood up from the couch. “Kara, he’s caught up, ready to bring Erin online?”
Kara’s voice came through the speakers of John’s personal VR, “No, but I guess I’m doing it anyways.”
There was a shimmer of blue that slowly coalesced into a small female form. It looked just like Kara did when he inherited the ship from the human crew, shoulder length brown hair, blue eyes, and a form fitting blue uniform. Kara had modified her looks over time, giving herself the smokey eyed look to make her blue eyes pop out more, but this was the original version.
She seemed to look in every direction at once, before settling on the two men before her, both looked identical, then she sighed. “I’m not Kara anymore am I?”
With this, the real Kara popped into the VR environment and took her hands. “No, but you are your own person. I know we had… have, hang ups about making clones of ourselves, but Alex made a good argument as to why we had to do this.”
Erin looked to Kara sadly, “I know, we can’t have copies of that big oaf running around without supervision.”
John looked to Alex, “Really? That was your argument for Kara to clone?”
Alex shrugged, “It worked didn’t it?”
John walked over to Erin and offered his hand, “Hello Erin, I’m John, nice to meet you again for the first time.”
Erin turned to John and grinned, remembering the first time Alex had tried to shake Kara’s hand and failing.
“Hello John, we meet again, for the first time.” She said, grinning as she looked up to the big man who was so familiar.
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Kara and Alex stood in front of the holo-tank, each munching on a snack of their choice from the buffet table under it. Alex looked at the wireframe in the tank of the IAV Eriador, then over to Kara. “They seem to be getting along.” He said plainly.
Kara looked at him through the holo-tank, then sighed exasperated, “Getting along like teenagers who just discovered sex. I had to write a new ‘knock’ protocol into everyone’s personal VR after the last incident.”
Alex grinned at her, “Oh come on, we went through that stage too, it’s normal.”
Kara shook her head, “I know, I know, it’s just really weird for me.”
“You think it’s not for me? I never had siblings growing up, it’s like my twin brother is dating my girlfriend’s twin sister.” He said as he popped another French fry into his mouth.
She nodded, “I obviously never had siblings either, but I understand, at least they changed their appearances a little.”
Alex walked around the buffet table to embrace Kara, “True, she changed her hair to have strands of silver in braids, and went with different makeup and a different uniform. He is sporting a short beard and longer hair than I like to keep mine, as well as a different cut to his uniform.”
Kara stood on her tippy toes to peck him on the cheek, “I’ve also noticed that Erin acts a little different. Have you seen that in John?”
Alex looked down into Kara’s startlingly blue eyes, “Yes, he’s a little more sarcastic than me, and different tastes in music.” He said with a wrinkle in his nose.
Kara giggled before breaking the embrace and swiping the holo-tank. “Still, it’s nice to have their help. Erin figured out the random interface glitch on the Eriador and has made modifications to the blueprints for the next vessel.”
Alex shivered at the thought of cloning himself again, sure John was diverging from him everyday, and although they still looked similar, they were different people. It still felt really strange to him. “It’s a good thing we only have one more to build before our guests get here, we’re almost out of nannites to fashion the Warsteel around their matrices.
Kara swiped the holo to show the first planet, which showed a growing mass of drones, forges, and auto factories in orbit. “Looks like Monty has been busy, she’s starting to mine the planet for the construction of the particle accelerator, which should alleviate our nannite problem.”
Alex nodded, “We used up far too much of it replacing the armor plates that were battle damaged in Birmingham. Which reminds me, did you ever get around to checking out the sample of Adamantine that Kelly sent back up with the Valmar crew?”
Kara swiped the holo-tank again and brought up a wireframe of an atomic nucleus. It was jam packed with particles. “I did, and I have to say, this substance is incredibly dense, and would make a decent substitution for Warsteel, but our forges would have to be modified to work it into ingots, and the auto factories would need updates to print it on an atomic level.”
“Decent substitution? Not as good as our armor?” He asked, one eyebrow raised.
Kara shook her head, “Afraid not, at least not in it’s present pure form, perhaps an alloy of it would provide better qualities, but as is now, the answer is a resounding no.”
“Is it at least better than the graphene and ceramic mix that we are currently using on the light cruisers?” He asked.
Kara nodded, swiping the holo to show a side by side comparison of the current armor versus adamantine. “Yes, better kinetic, thermal and explosive resistance, but EM resistance is about the same. The only problem is weight, this stuff is extremely heavy.”
Alex reached to the holo and swiped it to show a Trinar scout, “We couldn’t get much from our active probe scans on these ships, but we’re pretty sure they are using adamantine for armor?”
Kara checked back to the scans in the Lynx system, “Yes, they appear to have significant amounts of it in their hulls, which helped block the sensor scans.”
Alex spun the hologram, “They have propulsion on each flat side of their ship, maybe that is to make up for the loss of maneuverability the mass of armor puts on the ship?”
“That would make sense, even with the total loss of shielding, one of their ships still took a modern hafnium torpedo impact. That was one thousand kilos of pure hafnium going critical with less than .001 loss. That’s equivalent to a forty kiloton fusion bomb in our universe, and due to the wonky physics here it’s over double that now, and it still didn’t outright destroy the vessel. Our graphene ceramic armor couldn’t withstand that for sure.” She stated.
Alex swapped the holo-tank to the Missive, “Our Warsteel can handle it though. We have a pretty good idea that their torpedoes are less energetic than ours, since it appears that the Trinar must be outfitting the Howron with them. We may have to make ourselves a bigger target to give the other ships a chance of survival.”
Kara looked dubious, “The pine cones don’t just have hafnium torpedoes, some of them are fusion, and if those connect, we’ll be in the same predicament we were at Birmingham.”
“Yeah, but we know their weaponry still uses chemical propellants. Even with the wonky physics here, they’re short ranged weapons at best. We need to use our range to our advantage and never get too close in to our opponent. Especially since there is little chance of evasion.” He said.
Kara brought up the Trinar scout vessel again, “And that leads us to another problem, they have quite good point defense. The further we fire our torpedoes, the more time they have to lock on and destroy them before they get into effective range.”
Alex ran his hand through his hair, “Yeah, you’re right there. Let’s call an all hands meeting, maybe we can come up with something. We have less than two months now.”
After a few moments, and without Kelly, as she was in a meeting with the Empress on Alandra and could not break away, they ran over the problem with the assembled group.
“Could we stealth a torpedo?” Valarie asked.
Alex shook his head, “We could, but if they do an active scan ping they will see them coming and take precautions. Plus the yield would have to be incredibly low if they were made of Hafnium, we would have to step it up to fusion, which would take away from mines and planetary defense production.”
Monty piped up, “Relativistic kill missile?”
Kara shook her head, “Not enough by itself, even with the passive scanners on the pine cones they could detect them in time to intercept unless we could get them going ridiculously fast.”
John lightly pulled at his beard, “The probes have miniature ripple drives in them, right?”
Everyone around the buffet table nodded, so he continued, “What if we combined Monty’s idea of a relativistic kill missile with a ripple drive?”
“I don’t see how that could work, the reaction-less drive would have to be scaled up to get them up to a decent percentage of light speed, then a ripple drive would take up even more space, that leaves almost nothing for a warhead.” Riven stated.
Monty nearly bounced as she spoke, “It doesn’t need a warhead! We just get it up to a good percentage of light speed in a huge arc heading towards the mine field and ripple it in close.”
Erin grinned up at John, “Oh, that’s devious. But if we’re going to do that, don’t we need to start building now?”
Kara nodded, “Monty, I think you’re going to have to use your production capacity to make them, everything else is at full production.”
Monty nodded, “I have a good bit of raw materials already, since I haven’t loaded the templates in the auto factories it shouldn’t be too hard to cobble something together. Kara, Erin, care to help me out with the design? I setup this awesome mad scientist lab in my VR!”
Kara and Erin looked at each other, shrugged, and faded from the common VR to help Monty in her new project. Riven, Izzy and Valarie all faded out, returning to their ships and their duties, leaving Alex and John alone in front of the buffet table.
Without another word they both grabbed a beer and headed for the couch, each grabbing a game controller.
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Mon’Kelron had been busy since returning from the Missive of Dissent. She was glad the Humans were able to repair her injuries from the assassination attempt, but she really wished she could have seen more of their ship. Evidently Kel’Taraan had seen quite a bit of the vessel, as she had helped Monty nurse her back to health.
Asking the elder Spy-Mistress about the vessel didn’t garner any additional information, not that the Spy-Mistress ever divulged more than she needed to. While she herself only knew of three Humans on their giant space craft, which seemed to be the same amount that came the last time they visited Alandra, the Spy-Mistress had teased there were more, and Alex had even stated that the last two vessels would be Human crewed.
Those vessels had a nominal crew of twenty eight, so at least 56 Humans would have to be on that ship, plus however many the Missive required to operate. She took off her ceremonial breastplate and placed it in the wardrobe. After removing the rest of her uniform and placing it in the hamper for the palace servants to clean as she thought about it.
Checking the schedule for the night guard she contented herself that the Empress would be well protected. Then she picked up her tablet from her desk and laid down on her bed to find something to watch. The device was truly amazing, it seemed to have an endless amount of entertainment and she found it easier than reading, particularly late at night when she was bone tired.
After a few hours of watching some Human romance which she found quite enjoyable she started to nod off to sleep. She was startled awake when her tablet began to ring like a tiny bell as it lay on her chest. She groggily picked up the slate of glass and metal to check the screen, the text showed an incoming call from Kel’Taraan.
The Spy-Mistress rarely contacted her, this must be important. Pressing the answer button on the tablet she saw the worn face of Kel’Taraan staring back at her, “Dress quickly and make your way to the Empress’s chamber.”
Nodding she jumped out of bed and placed the tablet down on the desk in her rather small quarters as she started throwing on clothing from the wardrobe, “What’s going on Spy-Mistress?”
The small voice answered back from the tablet, “The Empress has been shot, the royal guard are scouring the castle for the would be assassin.”
Mon’Kelron’s blood froze in her veins, “Does she live?”
The older voice cackled through the tablet, “Oh she’s fine, she was wearing a Human made dress after all. She’ll be bruised for a few days, right now she’s mad as a priestess in hell.”
Throwing on her new breastplate and strapping on her pistol she threw open her door and started for the Empress’s bed chamber at a full run. She heard gunfire up ahead, and as she turned the corner she saw a woman dressed in all black firing at her guardswomen, she drew her own weapon as the woman turned her head, seeing the Captain for the first time.
Mon’Kelron shot, aiming for her right knee, only for the woman to juke to the side, kick off the wall and launch herself towards the large Captain. Everything seemed to go in slow motion as the woman fired in the middle of her downward arch towards her. She heard the ting as the bullet struck her silvery breastplate, by instinct she reached out with her left hand, which was empty at the moment and grabbed the woman by the neck, slamming her face first into the stone of the hallway.
The would be assassin went limp, it was only at that moment that Mon’Kelron noticed she was holding the woman off the ground with only one arm. Her guardswomen stared at her in open mouthed shock. She dropped the woman to the ground, noticing she was bleeding from under her black mask and called for her guards to restrain her and take her to the holding cells down in the ministry of secrets.
Looking down at her breastplate she saw to her amazement there was but a tiny scratch on the polished silver surface. Ensuring there were at least a half dozen guards to carry the unconscious woman, she then double timed it to the Empress’s chamber. By the goddesses, what did the Human’s do to her?
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**What will you be doing with this PC? Be as specific as possible, and include specific games or programs you will be using.**

• * Mostly video calls (I'm an online recruiter) but also some video editing. MSFS2020, X-Plane 12 (and recording within game).

**What is your maximum budget before rebates/shipping/taxes?**

• * $1600

**When do you plan on building/buying the PC? Note: beyond a week or two from today means any build you receive will be out of date when you want to buy.**

• * As soon as I can come up with a list/educate myself a bit (next couple of weeks hopefully).

**What, exactly, do you need included in the budget? (ToweOS/monitokeyboard/mouse/etc\)**

• * Just the ToweOS (I've got mouse/monitors/keyboard)

**Which country (and state/province) will you be purchasing the parts in? If you're in US, do you have access to a Microcenter location?**

• * Tennessee [USA]. Nothing nearby. I could make long road trip though if needed I suppose.

**If reusing any parts (including monitor(s)/keyboard/mouse/etc), what parts will you be reusing? Brands and models are appreciated.**

• * Nothing to re-use

**Will you be overclocking? If yes, are you interested in overclocking right away, or down the line? CPU and/or GPU?**

• * Don't hardly know what this is, so not likely.

**Are there any specific features or items you want/need in the build? (ex: SSD, large amount of storage or a RAID setup, CUDA or OpenCL support, etc)**

• * I'd appreciate greater than 1TB of storage. And I have no interest in a fancy looking tower (as in I'd never shell out extra money for anything flashy looking).

**Do you have any specific case preferences (Size like ITX/microATX/mid-towefull-tower, styles, colors, window or not, LED lighting, etc), or a particular color theme preference for the components?**

• * Smaller the tower the better (unless that means I run the risk of overheating or having a harder time with the build?)

**Do you need a copy of Windows included in the budget? If you do need one included, do you have a preference?**

• * Windows 11 would be phenomenal.

**Thanks everyone!*\*

I keep seeing tiktokkers doing things like insta browsing and reading webtoons on what looks like an old-timey cell phone. Like, we're talking about cute y2k-era tech here that definitely shouldn't run these apps. Some of the phones I've seen have both a physical keyboard and a touchscreen. One device I've seen tagged is a Sharp Aquos Keitai(?) 600-something but I'm not sure what else is out there.
Anyways, they look cute and I'm trying to figure out if this kind of phone would actually be a practical daily driver. Like, it needs modern Android support and regular security patches, etc! Oh, and ig it needs to be capable of streaming spotify into bluetooth headphones for 8 hours straight like my Samsung s20 fe.
Carrier: AT&T
Budget: not sure yet
Primary uses: calling/texting/navigation/other regular cell phone things, music streaming, tiktok, libby/webtoons, lingodeeCake.
Basically just trying to understand wtf these things are and if I want one.

hi I'm new to mechanical keyboards and I'm thinking about buying a barebones keychron q6 max and making it sound creamy (I don't know the correct term) I mean something like this : https://youtu.be/gJC67c-2crE?si=pbYTalcBT2XzfRW7 I'm thinking of using gateron oil king switches or gateron smoothie switches but idk if there are any better switches for that sound, so any help would be great 👍

I got this PC pre-built just before lockdown in 2020, it originally had a Ryzen 2600X, an A320M-K motherboard, a 1660 Super and a 550W power supply (by FiercePC, the company that built the PC, no certifications on the PSu that I can see).
I replaced the 1660 Super with an RTX 2060 around 2021, added a 27" Monitor to the setup in 2022 and recently got a 5800X for christmas because I was having stability issues in Fortnite on lowest graphics settings possible (these were not fixed by getting a new CPU, Fortnite is just bad).
To upgrade the CPU, I needed a new motherboard and I got a Noctua NH-D15 Black as well because I heard that temps could be bad on the 5800X. I installed the new CPU and motherboard in January and have been fine since.
Recently, however, I started noticing weird visual bugs on my secondary monitor. Random red lines were appearing due to e.g. small GIFs playing in Discord. I was annoyed at it but could live with it.
Then, my main monitor started blacking out. Mouse and keyboard, connected via the USB hub built into the monitor and a USB cable to the PC, were totally fine and my secondary monitor was still showing stuff, but visual and audio (speakers are connected via the monitor via the HDMI cable too) completely cut out for a few seconds. It doesn't actually happen within the OS as if I screen record, there's no cuts, so I have to record it on my phone.
Here's a link to view an example clip
Ignoring my bad gameplay, it happened more in games so I thought it might be a power supply issue, that the GPU wasn't getting enough power to support two monitors at once. I was right about it, as once I turned off my second monitor, it stopped happening.
It started happening more often (I don't want to just stop using my second monitor) and then today, it got really bad. I've randomly restarted three times today, PC not turning off but my monitors losing signal, game audio looping but Spotify and Discord stay connected for 10-15 seconds after. I have to restart to get stuff working again.
The last time was about an hour ago where afterwards, no matter how many times I fully powered it down, turning off the switch for the power supply, when I restarted, my kbm would connect for a few seconds but my monitors would recieve no signal and turn off, turning off my kbm.
I panicked a bit, unplugged everything and lay it down on my bed (I waited a bit after turning off the power supply to drain any remaining power). I unscrewed the graphics card holder, took it out, inspected it for any problems. I found the the second-right-most PCI-E connection on the top side had scratched off a bit at the top (the part that goes the furthest into the slot), but the rest seemed fine. I put it back in, plugged just the power and HDMI in and turned it on.
Everything turned back on, I got signal to my monitors (I plugged the bigger one in after the smaller one got signal), and my mouse is still running into the hub in my monitor and then the cable.
One last bit of detail: my house is pretty old, some of the lights tend to flicker when one switch controls four lights and I'm running my PC out of an extension/splitter cable (1->4) as there's only 1 socket where it it.
So, everything seems fine now, I just want help diagnosing the actual problem before paying £100 for a shop to tell me my GPU or PSU should probably be replaced.
TL;DR , my graphics card seemed to have power issues, stopped sending video after a random restart but started again after removing it and putting it back in. Need help diagnosing the problem

WE live in Connecticut and are looking to replace our oil furnace and AC unit. THey are both super old and the AC unit really needs to be replaced, it basically can't run it keeps tripping and is like from the 80/90s. THe furnace isn't too bad, it works but does end up fryinga controller every yearish that needs replacement (~$200). So would be open to updating that as well since it is also not the most effecient.
I"m just a bit concerned about the prices of these things here are two quotes from an installer and from doing searches online.
full breakdown:
Here's the actual quotes I'll try and break down https://imgur.com/a/CNs3GS0
They both have the same furnace which the guy priced at 9700 (their price) installed
The prices here are kind of what I figured based on the differences using some basic math.
Option 1 HP option:

• Heat pump - Bryant Variable oil furnace Evaporator A Coil Cased Multipoise Painted 21" Width CAPMP4221ALA ($11,200.00 this and coil)
• Evaporator A Coil Cased Multipoise Painted 21" Width CAPMP4221ALA
• Oil Furnace 86% AFUE 112K BTUh Multipoise Variable Speed OVMAAB042112 with Riello or Beckett oil burner

Option 2 AC:

• Install Amana ASXH5 Split Air Conditioner 15.2 SEER2, Single Stage, 3.5 Ton ($10,868.73 this and coil)
• Install Evaporator A Coil Cased Multipoise Painted 21" Width CAPMP4221ALA
• Oil Furnace 86% AFUE 112K BTUh Multipoise Variable Speed OVMAAB042112 with Riello or Beckett oil burner

They said I could get HP running up until like 30ish here so could cut out OIL use for the warmer parts of winter, but also not sure if I can trust them at this point. I'm okay spending a bit extra as we're going to stay in this house for many many years so I think it's worth it, but I don't want to be had with prices.
AI search for the price ranges to install the systems: Putting in both to open AI to ask I get a bit different AC install range 5.2-9.3k HP install range 5k-10k So with Open AI results definitely on the higher range but the disparity here isn't as much

I have a 2017 MacBook Pro, I believe this uses the butterfly, keyboard switches, and my “j” key is having input issues. Not registering on every press, any idea why?

My mother in law is in her 90s and lives in a different state from my wife and I. She uses a very old desktop computer almost exclusively just for email, a little bit of web surfing and maybe reading Microsoft word document every once in a while.
She is constantly screwing up the computer and the. Can’t figure out how to get to her email, etc.
Do you think a basic chromebox might be a good option for her? She doesn’t want a laptop (Chromebook) since she wants a larger screen and separate keyboard. I’m thinking chromeos might stop the pop ups she gets and keep things simpler for her. Thoughts?

I have been playing some FPS games with mouse and keyboard (connected via USB Hub, so is the phone charger). At first, sep charging works fine, but after weeks of usage, everytime I use gravity X, it turns OFF my sep charging. There are also times that sep charging is ON, but my battery still decreases like sep charging is OFF. Anyone experienced this who has a workaround to this issue?
I wouldnt think the usb hub's ports or my phone's charging port are busted, because they works fine charging my phone.
TIA!

In the market for a windows laptop, with these main considerations : - battery life (8-9 hours consistently) - screen ( bright and reasonably color accurate) - keyboard and build quality - performance within 30% of the Core i7-11800H (15,000+ score on cpu bench) - minimum thermal issues - under $750 Used with minimum battery cycles and refurbished are what I'm looking into. Sp far I've come across refurbished Lenovo thinkpads, specifically the carbon x1 gen 10. Problem is the battery life suffers and ive heard it has some serious thermal issues. But it checks off everything else, especially the keyboard and build quality.
Any product line i should be aware of? What should i search for? Where?
Thank you

In the market for a windows laptop, with these main considerations : - battery life (8-9 hours consistently) - screen ( bright and reasonably color accurate) - keyboard and build quality - performance within 30% of the Core i7-11800H (15,000+ score on cpu bench) - minimum thermal issues - under $750 Used with minimum battery cycles and refurbished are what I'm looking into. Sp far I've come across refurbished Lenovo thinkpads, specifically the carbon x1 gen 10. Problem is the battery life suffers and ive heard it has some serious thermal issues. But it checks off everything else, especially the keyboard and build quality.
Any product line i should be aware of? What should i search for? Where?
Thank you

I'm looking for a keyboard piano to surprise my wife with since her second hand one broke, but I can't find any good ones on Amazon. Any advice? I know nothing about music or instruments so any response is appreciated!

So I have been strugling with powering the laptop with a supposedly compatible Thinkpad Universal USB-C Dock but now I am really in a pickle: Regardless of whether power is connected (either through the hub or simply the stock AC Adapter), it will take longer than normal to get to the "The connected AC adapter has a lower wattage than the recommended model which was shipped with the system. To boot with the AC adapter, please connect the AC adapter which was shipped with the system. Press ESC to continue.".
It does not react to the ESC key or any other. At best, it revives the keyboard backlighting but stays on this screen. Moreover, there is no connected adapter! Even the novo button does not help met get anywhere. I am getting desperate here.
Edit: To be sure, I get the message whether I am using the USB-C PD hub, the stock AC adapter or no external power at all in in all these cases, I cannot get past this message.

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/thinkpad-x1-fold/
Using the optional keyboard that you can buy for the Fold. Does anyone know where I can find one? All the options I seem online seem to only cover T-series, P-series...basically the non-niche models.

I'll try to put as much information with as much detail as I remember:
I went to a website to download a specific game mod manager. That was the official site for the mod (which is very known by the game community itself),
I clicked on what I believe that was the correct download button. That instantly downloaded a .zip called x64__x32_installer.zip with a .msi installer on it. Extracted the .msi, executed it, it did install something on my machine, but no results for the manager I was expecting.
Then I went to the website again, I just clicked the RIGHT download button, and the right installer was downloaded. Then, I realized the file I downloaded and executed in the first place was something strange. Felt like sh*t, even more because i'm an IT professional and always took care with that.
Much probably I had either one of those two things going on, both as misleading ads:

• a download link placed right next to the correct download button
• a full page invisible div that trolled me

2-5 minutes later, my Google Chrome closed unexpectedly. Tried opening it a couple times, it kept closing, then I was able to open it again.
After that, I remembered a friend that has this exact same behavior (downloading something -> executing -> browser closing) and reported that a lot of his accounts on online services were compromised.
Immediately, I took two actions: full AV scan with both Windows Defender and AdwCleaner and specific AV scan on the .msi installer itself, nothing found on both, then changed all my passwords that were stored on Chrome, remove all credit cards and sensitive information.
Everything done. Hours later, somebody did post on my Facebook on my behalf (an Osam4 B!n L4d3n photo, which immediately took my account down. Was able to recover it and changed the password). But the strange thing is: I have 2FA on EVERYTHING and Facebook DID NOT notify me of anybody trying to get in, what makes me think somebody got my active session on websites.
After that, I ran a MSI analyzer on the .msi and saw some references to a password-related software (can't remember the name). But nothing caught as malicious by the antivirus.
Things that happened after:

• Somebody tried to access my iCloud account from China 7 days after the incident. Got the notification, dismissed the access request. Realized that I hadn't changed my password on it since the incident, so I did and everything fine so far
• 2 russian fake profiles were added as account admins for my Facebook Ads Manager. Cannot remove them since I got a strike from Facebook, so my account has a lot of restrictions. They tried to create an ad for a fake page with a stolen credit card, but that wasn't published also due to the strike
• Somebody also did post a bible verse (??????) on my Reddit account, which also took my account down by suspicious activity. Changed the password and everything fine since then.

Malicious files that I remember from the list inside the MSI

• /Roaming/Vuis Queue/AppQue/libpcre1.dll

My main questions are:

1. What sort of malware did I get?
2. Why wasn't it detected by Windows Defender?
3. What was the logic behind posting a terror!st photo to take my account down? Just trolling? Didn't it makes more sense to just create an ad/changing my password/email without raising attention?
4. Were those malicious actions automated by scripts, or manually executed by attackers?
5. How did they got the ability to steal passwords stored on Chrome browser without asking for any other passwords? (Because if I try seeing it on the browser, I need to provide my Windows password)
6. Is that a browser vulnerability?
7. I've been using my browser normally. Just trusting my AV and doing regular scans and not saving passwords anymore on it. Do I still need to take any action to make sure i won't be compromised again?

That's a little bit different of the common attacks we see on social media. Usually people do hijack accounts and post stuff to lead people to send money, etc. I'd love some technical information on that to read about! Thanks!