The test tube grown meat doesn’t come off a test tube grown animal, it’s grown as shaped and flavored protein so the only sheilos are about the kashrus of the raw material.

You give yourself too little credit. Most people can’t manage that either. In fact, most people wouldn’t know it was missing.

You give yourself too much credit. I can’t figure out what to put here, it’s just for symmetry. 🙂

I’ve done it on my Dell laptop and, a customer’s (very old) Compaq. I agree with you about Dell laptops. They’re very durable and it’s easy to get at the most commonly replaced parts.

Derech: Why would you need a mezuza on the other side? The closet isn’t an entrance to the room, it’s a place that is not considered a room at all because it doesn’t have the shiur.

*wierd (sic)

ICOT: I’ve done what I suggested on my own laptop several times. I’ve never had any trouble and the keys always worked fine afterwards. I’m surprised that someone who has steady enough hands to solder circuitry (which I am far from good at) has trouble with that.

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The Torah contains nissim to inspire us in every generation. In the earlier times when prophecy was common, Hashem gave our ancestors once in an era open miracles to inspire them like the splitting of the sea and the donkey’s mouth.

In our day, when you can open up any newspaper and read about talking donkey’s who not only talk, but make countries listen and elect them, we take our inspiration from the prophets of earlier times.

charlie: I have a dumbphone so I can’t do that, but I’m curious, is there a way to keep calls from interrupting you during davening? Even if you silence the phone don’t you still get on screen alerts?

wiy: If you get a free firefox addon called Addblock Plus you can block almost all advertisements which is where most of the pictures you’re trying to avoid are.

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No, and saying that it is sounds like an excuse for irresponsibility.

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Mod-80: A bus is the technical term for a circuit that carries data. SATA is the kind of circuit the hard drive inside you computer uses. The e stands for external.

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Both of these are more than good enough. Go with the cheaper one.

Depot: It’s actually gotten better since most of the louder and more obnoxious bloggers got bored. Have you even read any of the blogs you’re complaining about?

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That is the most reliable blog. A work of fiction portraying itself as such is always more trustworthy than half truths passing themselves off as the whole thing. Speaking of that blog, I wish you’d post more often. I like your stuff. That being said, what does your second paragraph have to do with the first?

If you built your last one you probably bough parts from either tigerdirect or newegg. I would recommend either site for readymade systems as well, definitely over places like bestbuy. If you’ll allow outside links for this thread I can post some. As for lenovo, they are generally good deals — especially the thinkpad laptops — but they are a state approved/run chinese company so some people don’t want to buy from them.

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chein: That’s kind of harsh, especially since most of them don’t attack the “torah way of life” so much as child molestation, arson, and the like. Unless of course, you say that those are important parts of a torah lifestyle.

Derech Hamelech: Isn’t hesech hada’as a much more pertinent issue?

BoR: While technically you do not have to wear tzitzis every moment of the day, please bear the following in mind. An Israeli soldier once asked Rav Shlomo Aviner if he was permitted to take his tzitzis off during physical training (which includes full kit marches in the desert in the summer). The Rabbi answered “technically yes, but remember that Bar Kochba’s fighters fought in tefillin.”