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2024, the year of the Linux laptop
  • What parts of MacOS do you find easier to use? The newest Mac I own is a 2007 Macbook running 10.6 which I don't mind too much, but whenever I've helped anyone else with modern MacOS it's just felt kind of weird and unintuitive. I don't like hate it, I could use it if I had to, it's just weird.

  • XFX AMD video cards. A good brand?
  • I have an XFX 6650 XT I got a couple years ago and the only issue I've had is that I had to flip the vbios switch on it to make it work with my motherboard when I first put it in which is weird because you would think both slots would be the same from the factory, but it worked perfectly after that so maybe there's just some intentional difference between the two roms

  • Choices
  • Well clearly it's the fault of everyone noticing the problems because like 100 years ago no one noticed the problems and so clearly they weren't happening because no one noticed and if they were happening someone would have noticed so if people just hadn't noticed they never would have happened and then no one would have noticed them which of course then means they double wouldn't have happened

    It's just common sense if you think about it from that perspective

  • Trump is running his transition team on secret money
  • Only for other people, all the other presidents have to be APAB (assigned president at birth) but he's allowed to be president even though he's ADAB (assigned dumbass at birth). It's just his usual hypocrisy

  • pokemongo slave edition
  • Wait that's actually like a really smart way to crowdsource navigation data. Maybe they should have said they were doing it but like either way I feel like it doesn't really hurt anyone since they already knew their location was being sent to them

  • Microsoft tries to convince Windows 10 users to buy a new PC with full-screen prompts
  • They may not have realized it, but until UEFI-only computers started becoming common, people mostly were still effectively drawing the line at IBM compatibility

    What's the fundamental difference between an Intel Macbook and my old 2018 Lenovo laptop? Either of them can run modern Windows, Linux, whatever. For most modern uses, they're basically equivalent. The one thing that makes the Lenovo different though is its firmware. The Lenovo has BIOS support and the Mac doesn't.

    If you then add my current Framework laptop, which is UEFI-only, to the comparison though, it gets kind of fuzzy. It's clearly not a Mac, but what is there to really define it as a PC? It can't run MacOS, but that doesn't really work to separate it because plenty of PCs can run MacOS. It's not made by Apple, but if that's all it takes then is a Chromebook or one of the Talos POWER workstations a PC too? It's kind of hard to say the Framework is a PC without including so many other things that the term PC kind of loses all meaning.

    I think the term PC has just outlived its usefulness and we need to move on to saying more specific things than that to describe computers. In most modern contexts, all that matters is what architecture a computer is and what operating systems will run on it, and PC just isn't really a great term to convey that information anymore.

  • Microsoft tries to convince Windows 10 users to buy a new PC with full-screen prompts
  • I hate how microsoft seems to think they own the term PC now and it can mean anything they want. Some of the "Copilot+ PCs" they're advertising on things like this have ARM CPUs which means they aren't PCs. I would even argue that a lot of x86 computers aren't PCs now because they only support UEFI booting so aren't PC compatible. They need to just call them computers or come up with a new term

  • Distro recommendations and experiences
  • Slightly off topic, but whatever distro you choose you probably want to use the kernel parameter amdgpu.abmlevel=0 because without it the display gets super washed out and low contrast when the laptop is in power saving mode which drove me insane until I figured out that parameter.

  • I found this lyric transcription a few years ago and it has now spread to like every lyrics website

    If you just search for "hand me out to drive", literally all the results are websites that copied this insane transcription.

    (For anyone not familiar, the actual phrase and what the song says is "hang me out to dry")

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    Lenovo has a glossa(rule)y that seems to be entirely made of arbitrary AI generated articles

    Including an official lenovo definition of among us

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    7 more SCS games until I have them all

    (Excluding the hunting simulators because I own a couple and cannot stand them)

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    My best algebraic calculator and my best rpn calculator

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