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ODuffer, in elders
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I’ve got a 13 year old probook 5330m. It’s running Lubuntu, with no working battery these days, but it’s fine other than that.

haui_lemmy,

Same here. My old graphics chip wouldnt boot with anything else (I could have searched for the driver somewhere) except lxqt. Thats why I chose lubuntu.

Vex_Detrause,

First time hearing lubuntu! Thanks for mentioning it. I’ll try this on my old laptop.

haui_lemmy,

It is pretty awesome for old hardware imo. I tried 5 or six other major distros and nothing worked, inclusing mint, ubuntu, debian (I think) and so on.

M137, in elders
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All I have is a 13 year old laptop, and I use it basically all day most days. It’s plays music and movies etc with no issues. Cloud pc for gaming, which also works perfectly. It really doesn’t like youtube, though, and it sounds like a jet engine every time system and app updates start to download. Can’t afford to get anything better anyway. A friend gave it to me after it died on him and he got a new one, wasn’t hard to fix. I cried when I got it because it improved my life a lot, just being able to do basic things.

thecrotch,

Have you tried blowing out the fan? After 13 years it might be all gunked up

M137,
@M137@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah, I try to keep it clean. I’m pretty sure the fan has been warped, so one of the blades drags against the housing a bit, and I don’t have the tools to open it up that much to try to fix it. It only happens at high fan speeds, though, and that doesn’t happen often enough to be truly annoying.

Toldry,
@Toldry@lemmy.world avatar

cloud pc for gaming

can you say more about that pls?

CurlyMoustache,
@CurlyMoustache@lemmy.world avatar

I use GeForce Now. It fits my needs and the games I like to play. Why pay for my own gaming rig when I can rent it and let others cover the upgrading cost?

nossaquesapao,

There are a few services that allow you to play with the actual game being rendered on remote computers, while your pc only shows the image and sends the input commands. I think the more popular ones are xcloud and geforce now. There are also a few smaller services that allow you to run anything you’d like, without limitations.

M137,
@M137@lemmy.world avatar

I use Shadow, you literally get a high-end PC you stream to any device in real time and can do whatever you want with. Other cloud gaming services only streams the games, so you can’t use mods, emulators, etc. Currently playing Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora on max settings, and it’s buttery smooth. I also use it for anything else that my laptop can’t handle like image and video editing, 3d modelling and rendering.

Nesola,

Have a hug!

M137,
@M137@lemmy.world avatar

Thank you, I needed that!

heero_youi,

I hope you get to get a fancy new one soon and your old laptop friend keeps chugging along as before! 🙏

iturnedintoanewt, (edited ) in Love and Peace
@iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee avatar

Feels a bit like a Quino style idea with different drawing style.

ColdWater, in Dress by Pizzacakecomic
@ColdWater@lemmy.ca avatar

Uhhh what is going on in the comments? Who is Pizzacakecomic? And why almost everyone here hate them?

systemglitch, (edited )

She loves antagonizing those who don’t like her comics and often doubles down for extra Reddit upvotes.

From my casual observations, she seems like a messed up person who could use a lot of self care. But to be fair, I don’t think anyone taking nude photos on only fans is in a good mental state.

yuriy,

Onlyfans is a great side hustle, don’t hate on sex work. I think being a professional youtuber is a stupid way to make money, but I’m not going to imply that everyone who does it is mentally ill.

feedum_sneedson,

I think hate is strong word, but personally I don’t think it’s great. Commodification of the flesh is always a bit upsetting, whatever the context.

yuriy, (edited )

I think it can be rather empowering when you’re the one in charge of your own commodification. Sex work really can be a sticky wicket, people being taken advantage of and whatnot. Onlyfans is probably the easiest way for someone to sell their own image without being directly taken advantage of, and whether it suits your tastes or not I think that’s really positive.

Full disclosure, I’m pretty heavily biased for this site specifically. I helped a past SO run an onlyfans and we split the income, it was really wild being a young couple who could afford things. As a side hustle it’s amazing supplemental income, as long as you’re not the jealous/narcissist type.

feedum_sneedson,

Yeah, that’s fine, I just personally disagree with you. No big deal.

yuriy,

hell yeah man, thank you for the discourse!

Maven,
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Pizzacake is a popular comic artist over on Reddit. She gained popularity mostly because she is extremely active in the comments of all of her posts. She is constantly chatting and attempting to make friends.

As for why she is disliked, there’s a few reasons.

The one she sites the most is sexism though there isn’t actually a lot of evidence of this outside of her own testimony.

Another is that she won’t stop talking about how people who don’t like her are sexist. She’s made multiple comics about how her critics don’t read her comics and just dislike them due to woman.

Her jokes also tend to be the easiest possible punchline for every joke. this has a kinda weird double effect because it means that her comics are extremely applicable to most people because they are generic enough that you can fit most of them into most situations. On the flip side, if you don’t like one the comics… You probably won’t like any of them… They’re all similar enough to be mostly indistinguishable other than the topic itself. along that same train of thought, if you like one… You’ll probably like them all.

As for my own opinion, I don’t really care one way or the other. She’s fine. I’ve heard accusations of her paying for likes on Reddit for promoting her own comics and so on but honestly I haven’t seen any proof myself so I can’t confirm or deny any of those.

UnderpantsWeevil,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

The one she sites the most is sexism though there isn’t actually a lot of evidence of this outside of her own testimony.

Sexism is so rampant on Reddit that saying “I’m a woman” and getting bombarded by creeps and freaks is trivial. Less a commentary on her, specifically, and more on the degenerate nature of the community.

She’s made multiple comics about how her critics don’t read her comics and just dislike them due to woman.

She’s producing liberal political comics, and she’s a woman, so the chuds will be out in full force screaming at her.

At a certain point, though, its just…

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/b730938a-3865-45ec-848d-72b2ff508f7e.jpeg

She’s fine.

She’s very clearly low effort. The art is flat, the comedy is mid, the political edginess is ten years out of date.

I wonder if Netflix will be signing her any time soon.

Jivebunny,
@Jivebunny@lemmy.world avatar

Now this is cake.

Maven,
@Maven@lemmy.world avatar

The art being flat as a way of saying it’s low effort is an argument I genuinely don’t understand. Comics are all low effort art wise… That’s part of the whole thing.

Comics historically have been the lowest quality you can get away with since they have to be put out every day for the newspaper. I know XKCD does more than 1 thing but the art style is literally stick figures and they’re one of the most popular web comics.

You may not like the art but I would call it a mediocre art style more than a low effort one.

Everything else I fully agree with. She gets the (unfortunately) normal amount of hate a woman gets online for being a woman. Which is why I made sure to do italics for it when I said lot. She tends to get significantly more support than hate in pretty much everything she does either way.

UnderpantsWeevil, (edited )
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

Comics are all low effort art wise…

I strongly disagree. Plenty of comics have some very high quality and detailed art. Other comics really evolve over time, from the more basic sketches to these fully realized complex images, as the artists themselves improve. Still others are sloppy-but-ambitious, with these poorly conceived but legitimately daring efforts at capturing visuals.

I know XKCD does more than 1 thing but the art style is literally stick figures and they’re one of the most popular web comics.

XKCD is a great example of raw ambition in art. They routinely do shit with flash or with clever perspective tricks or panel gags that leverage a relatively simple style into something more. Case in point: https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/784466b7-c59b-4835-bbf9-30d97c60ab07.png

Perspective, emotion, action, comedy, a very well-established cast of characters from simplistic visuals. All from stick-figures. There was some real thought put into this.

Maven,
@Maven@lemmy.world avatar

Oh I’m definitely not saying anything negative about XKCD. I LOVE those comics. My point is simply that even stick figures can make good comics.

It’s fine if you don’t like the art as art tends to be subjective. I just don’t think her art is any lower than any other average web/newspaper comic.

ILikeBoobies,

Famous Redditor for being a girl, every comic will be on the front page of Reddit despite never being exceptional

Also makes a ton of comics about how any criticism around her comics is made because she’s a woman in a man’s world

I’d rather their comics not make their way here but I’ll just ignore them

astraeus, in elders
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Looking over at my old Thinkpad X131e with those “I’m going to start a new project with you” eyes

pineapplelover, in elders

Everybody with a Thinkpad

Agent641,

My 12 year old thinkpad is still my daily driver.

Speakers stopped working 5 years ago tho. Only BT audio out, now.

blanketswithsmallpox,

First thing that always went in every Thinkpad I’ve owned is the wireless card lol. Opposite issue for me.

MrScottyTay,

You could probably open that up pretty easy and fix that I bet

Album,
@Album@lemmy.ca avatar

T42 was instructable

PriorityMotif,
@PriorityMotif@lemmy.world avatar

T60 gang

gibmiser, (edited ) in elders

My Zune still playing

cough hack wheeze

“Is that all you got?”

AlecSadler,

I miss my Zune. Do you seriously still have one?

gibmiser,

Yep. Mounted on the wall in my dad’s barn, playing an endless shuffle of my music from 15? Years ago.

Vex_Detrause,

I tied him up in my dad’s barn and it sings constantly

That what it sounds like.

OpenStars, in elders
@OpenStars@startrek.website avatar

It’s nice to have a purpose:-).

ThePJN, in elders
@ThePJN@sopuli.xyz avatar

Wholesome-ness on the internet? In this economy?!

TastyWheat, in elders

My Surface Pro 3 refuses to die despite the fans giving out, and YouTube plays like shit now thanks to the potato GPU.

Still use it everyday.

nao,

So it’s able to run fanless or did you fix it somehow?

TastyWheat,

It peaks about 90 degrees C when playing YouTube videos. The fan sort of ticks every 5 seconds or so but yeah, it’s still okay.

ramenshaman,

My surface pro 3 is easily one of the most reliable computers I’ve ever had.

blind3rdeye,

My Surface 2 and Surface 3 both developed a hardware problems. :(

CaptnNMorgan, in [Alzwards Corner] Nature is Amazing

Not enough N words

DragonTypeWyvern,

It’s a BLACK Widow.

Kolanaki, in "How Are You" PoorlyDrawnLines
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I am operating within acceptable parameters.

M137,
@M137@lemmy.world avatar

Lucky

bruhbeans, in Love and Peace

What’s so funny bout peace love and understanding

jadedwench, in "How Are You" PoorlyDrawnLines

Sometimes I answer this question somewhat honestly, much to people’s horror. I try to leave it at “I got of bed”, which still seems to disturb them…

surewhynotlem,

My favorite is “still kickin”. The Norwegians sometimes say “awake and not crying”.

burgermeister,

My favorite response is “standard”

Kusimulkku,

I think it’s a cultural thing

thisbenzingring, in "How Are You" PoorlyDrawnLines

I miss Trash Bird but I love that he recreates the vibe in his normal strip

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