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My brothers Chuwi laptop had major problems. Now he got a wal-mart gift card for the price he paid for the Chuwi. He is eyeing an HP laptop with 256gb ssd. Is that the same as a regular harddrive?
  • Asus sounds good.

    Also heard and have seen it from HP work notebooks, wouldn't wanna buy them now.

    Also older Acer or Lenovo laptops used to have a bunch of bloatware on there. Idk if that changed significantly. I do have to say, think pads haven't let me down though.

  • My brothers Chuwi laptop had major problems. Now he got a wal-mart gift card for the price he paid for the Chuwi. He is eyeing an HP laptop with 256gb ssd. Is that the same as a regular harddrive?
  • If he downloads a lot of movies that might get annoying, but if he's just streaming them from a Netflix app or something that's totally doable.

    If he plays fallout idk how demanding that is to your disk, but games in general profit from faster storage. Movies usually don't as much.

    If he plays a lot of AAA games that are bigger, his drive will get crowded real quick with 256gb. If it's just a few fallout games, he will be fine I think.

    That said, 256gb is on the lower end of modern notebook hardware FYI, even on SSDs.

  • My brothers Chuwi laptop had major problems. Now he got a wal-mart gift card for the price he paid for the Chuwi. He is eyeing an HP laptop with 256gb ssd. Is that the same as a regular harddrive?
  • HDD (Hard Disk Drive) is like a CD, slower but more storage.

    SSDs (Solid State Drive) are like flash drives, they are faster but not as much storage.

    Also if your drive breaks, an HDD often only fails in part so your data might be recoverable. If SSDs fail, they fail all the way, and there's no way to get it back.

    And then there's some quirks about secure delete, fragmentation, the amount of certified writes and things like that, but this is only a broad overview.

    Also if you hear internal or external, that means external you gotta plug in via USB, while internal drives you have to open your case, insert the drive and connect it to the mainboard and power supply.

    And M.2 drives are just way smaller SSDs that are always internal and they can be a lot faster than normal SSDs, but they need their own special slot on the mainboard.

    I hope this helps :)

    Also asking for the certified hardware nerds to correct and supplement my comment ^^

  • Nintendo Switch eShop closing 2026 in China
  • I mean we can see what they're replacing it with and what that incentivises.

    This incentivises people to use WeChat. Which makes me think it's someone who has stakes in WeChat. Now I cannot prove that the Chinese government has something to do with it but this certainly looks pretty sus.

  • delivery and gynecologist
  • Cannibal Corpse.

    Sorry not sorry.

  • Open source is a fire-hose of value...
  • There's licenses that restrict monetary use. Not saying that's the best thing to do, but that certainly would mean you only provide it to people who don't make money from it, which might still be a lot of people.

  • Google is inserting search links into webpages in the Google App now
  • Funnily enough, because it's injecting code into a website as a browser, it's probably using a bunch of case law and positions very similar to ad blockers trying to defend their use. Which is ironic on many levels.

  • Global Al water use by 2027 is predicted to be 4.2-6.6bn cubic metres, equivalent to half of UK's total annual water consumption
  • Totally agree with this take.

    The hype has been there everytime we discovered something big. Only this time the hype overshadows the discovery a bit. Doesn't mean we shouldn't expect our scientific progress to revert back to this known pattern again.

  • Why do you hate "blockchain"?
  • This would have been way more engaging without the loaded question.

    It either sounds like you want to stir controversy through the question or you genuinely think most to all Lemmy users hate blockchain, and both is bad.

    Not a fan of this post as it is presented even though the actual question could have been interesting.

  • Why is no one talking about how unproductive it is to have verify every "hallucination" ChatGPT gives you?
  • Because in a lot of applications you can bypass hallucinations.

    • getting sources for something
    • as a jump off point for a topic
    • to get a second opinion
    • to help argue for r against your position on a topic
    • get information in a specific format

    In all these applications you can bypass hallucinations because either it's task is non-factual, or it's verifiable while promoting, or because you will be able to verify in any of the superseding tasks.

    Just because it makes shit up sometimes doesn't mean it's useless. Like an idiot friend, you can still ask it for opinions or something and it will definitely start you off somewhere helpful.

  • Mastodon Follow Packs
  • Awesome, thanks for the info :)

  • Mods have gone too far this time
  • Yeah will play more into the uncanny valley.

  • What are your favorite 1000+ hour games?
  • Warframe. Inching closer to 3.000h currently.

    It does come in waves, but every once in a while I go all in again and lose myself in the infinite things you can do.

  • Hate needs justification
  • Yeah I think hate is a draining and destructive emotion.

    There's situations where it should be used, but it should be used wisely. For example, it takes an insane amount of shady behavior to get under my skin, but when people do, they earn my hate and that makes me set very solid boundaries. But it would be bad to destroy friendships for hating someone because we got on each other's nerves for a while.

  • Would you go on a trip with your ex-partner and their former affair partner for your kid's sake?
  • No.

    You have a kid, but it's your decision.

    Sounds like she's trying to skip the part where she fucked up and she should apologize to you and give you some space. Instead she's leaving you an impossible choice.

    But you can talk to your son and tell him how much it stings and that you just can't do it. Sure you can "put all the bad blood behind" but it takes two for that and you can't force someone to reconcile by pressuring them with their son and luring them with a paid for vacation.

    This makes me mad for you, this is so unfair. No one has to take that offer, and your son will understand. Maybe your ex will understand too, but it looks like she's still too immature to understand right now.

  • Is it a red flag for your partner to be jealous of your kid?
  • Really hard to give advice when there's a lot of factors involved, like:

    • how long have you been together with your kid and your second wife?
    • did she know what she was signing up to?
    • how much time are you dedicating to her vs to the kid?

    And then, jealousy is a subjective feeling. Now because you know how she feels, if you are spending basically no time with her then you might be able to carve out some more time for the both of you, but the main part of dealing with the feels is on her. Growing a better connection to you or the kid is also on her. And communication is key. Relationships are hard and complicated, that's why you gotta talk a lot.

  • Ads with full volume?

    I just had an ad appear while scrolling through the comment section of a post.

    No big deal in itself, but: the ad started to play at volume even though I put my media viewer in auto mute. It's night and I don't wanna wake people up with videos I never even wanted to see and even tho I didn't click anything wrong.

    Is this how it should be? Is there an option to disable audio on ads? I have auto mute on enabled for my media viewer; why does this not automatically apply to ads as well?

    I get that this app has ads to survive but there's always a nice and a really annoying way to do it and this is definitely on the annoying side for me rn.

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    Random black screens

    I switched to Windows 11 about a year ago. A few months ago my PC started randomly crashing and rebooting, without any blue screens.

    Am I the only one? Does someone know anything about this?

    Pretty sure I can rule out power surges or overheating or stuff like that. There's been no indication. The system log is empty as well, apart from Windows being annoyed that it just got restarted without any notice.

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    UI elements not visible on pictures

    For me in the top of the image, there should be download button and stuff.

    The top is white and the symbols are white. There's no gradient. I literally can't see it.

    I know this is dumb but I think it's also an easy fix as the bottom already has a gradient.

    Edit: credits to the OP of this https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/b722cda5-9fd5-4dc0-8f57-450d8f5ee8d7.jpeg

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