The size of the app doesn’t matter, it’s what the app does.

Say you managed to uninstall your only launcher. Getting a new one on there would be a pain, but is doable. But uninstalling the fucking massive DJI app? Nah that’s nothing.

For the vast majority of people it’s a choice. Addiction? Maybe.

Most cars, especially older ones, only have one cigarette lighter. How many cigarettes could you possibly need to light?

I take it this only works for A. games and B. modern systems?

I'm more interested in software than games, especially on older machines. But managing it has always been a pain. I went through the trouble of making a zip disk of old software, and a nice GUI for navigating it. But I'd love something a bit smarter for these old machines.

Mad? No. Unhappy? Yes. If I don't want the food I'm not going to eat the food. I don't want people to waste their money on something I don't want.

Even if it's not my money I don't like unnecessary spending.

I have an N100 box for my router and it's great for singe gigabit or less. But > 1gbit and you really quickly need some serious hardware.

At work I was using a VM with 2 cores from a xeon 4215 and it struggled to get anything more than 2 gbit. As soon as I bumped it up to 4 cores I was able to get the full 4gbit speeds. If I wanted to do any traffic shaping or packet inspection speeds would tank. Also my OpenVPN speeds kinda suck on this N100 device. They're never great, but I can definitely tell I'm getting CPU bound vs when I ran it on my server. So if you plan on running extra services don't expect the greatest performance.

A lot of networking traffic is single core dependent so I've been trying to find one of those weird 5 core machines with 1 P core and 4 E cores which I think would be the perfect fit.

You do realize that virtually every device with an arm processor also have soldered ram?

And has 1/10th the memory bandwidth.

You can choose to drive a different speed than the person next to you. Even if that means going slower.

Instead now there’s an army of cars building up behind you, none of them with an appropriate following distance. As soon as anything interrupts the flow of traffic now there’s 20+ people running the risk of getting into an accident. Or even worse causing waves of braking an accelerating which leads to traffic jams.

In the US carriers have a lot of control over the software on phones bought through them (most of them). So you’d have to get the update verified and approved by them.

IMO that is one of the biggest issues with lemmy. If you make one post then potentially 1/3 of people see it. If you cross post it to all communities then lemmy shitty algorithm likes to put all 3 posts right next to each other and that gets annoying fast. Then if someone makes a comment on community As post, but you only picked Bs post then now you miss out.

Gift cards are intentionally earmarked for a specific purpose.

For a specific purpose at a specific vendor. And that’s why I hate gift cards. What if I want to go out to eat at a nice restaurant, but not the one they gave me the gift card for? Now you can’t go to the place you wanted to go to.

Or what if I want to buy something online, and it’s 50% off at vendor A but full price at vendor B and the gift card is for vendor B? Now your stick between paying for the item like normal, or wasting money getting it from the place that takes your gift card.

I'm extremely excited to see how their high end laptop parts turn out.

I had an 11th gen i9 machine and that thing pissed me off to no end with poor performance and poor battery life. My current 13th gen machine at least performs well when chugging down power, and gets acceptable battery life. 100 series (that's what they're called right) was promising, but not enough hopefully 200 series is the step up Intel so desperately needs.

Although, fuck Intel for bribing OEMs into only making their high end flagship machines with Intel CPUs. I'd kill for a Thinkpad P1 with an AMD CPU.

The 6000 series from AMD were so great because they picked the correct process node. Nvidia went with the far inferior Samsung 8nm node over TSMCs 7. Yet Nvidia still kept up with AMD in most areas (ignoring ray tracing).

Even the disastrous GTX 480 outsold ATI/AMD's cards in most markets.

The “disastrous” Fermi cards were also compute monsters. Even after the 600 series came out people were buying the 500 series over them because they performed so much better for the money. Instead of picking up a Kepler Quadra card in order to get double precision you could get a regular ass GTX 580 and do the same thing.

Jan 6 was not a good one. And I fear there’s another coming with this next election.

You're going to get fired. That's a personal risk.

Doing nothing costs a whole lot more than doing something, and then potentially risking getting sued.

Also no random manager is going to take that personal risk. They get paid like 40k a year.

The biggest problem with gaming laptops i see is that they are as expensive or even more as a tower of better specs

Just like SFF PCs you pay a penalty for the small size. There’s always trade offs.

And if you’re only going to look at it as FPS per dollar these laptops blow the steam deck out of the water. The steam deck is a highly power constrained APU with its integrated graphics stealing power from the CPU while the laptop has a full fat 55+ watt CPU and 55+ watt GPU.

Many of these lower end gaming laptops get decent battery life too. We have one at work that gets 3-4 hours of battery life.

In this context all dacs (digital analog converter) are audio interfaces. Not all audio interfaces are DACs (spdif for example).

Also a dac could be used for non audio uses.

I’m not familiar with European pricing. But in general avoid refurbished thinkpads of that age. You’re paying twice the price for a laptop that someone wiped physically and software wise. If you’re capable of reinstalling windows and handling a paper towel then just buy a regular “used” machine from eBay or your l local facebook marketplace equivalent. There’s not really much that goes wrong with these machines, and that’s why people buy them.

That said T580 all day long. The L series are the cheaper built machines, and the 90 series in general are basically just 80 series but worse.