I have an eight-year-old laptop that needs replacing and I’m paralyzed. What are the most reliable ones now? Do I need a desktop for CAD? Pros and cons of operating systems (and where do I find them?) Browsers ditto? Where do I find answers that aren’t just product marketing?
A library PC is not likely to let you just install whatever productivity software you want, nor is it even guaranteed to be able to run it if you could. Not to mention OP mentioned being paralyzed and there may be accessibility options with getting to a library that they’d rather avoid.
As much flak as I may get for this, I also second the Apple rec for laptop hardware. Install whatever OS you want on there, but in general their build quality is very high. I have a Macbook Pro that has been going strong for 11 years now. It’s no longer my daily driver and the battery life isn’t what it once was, but it still works really well.
Ironically, I can’t speak to the build quality of the newer laptops because my current one has lasted so long, but I believe they are still up there.
Based on your needs, I think it would be best to avoid Linux as an operating system which people will likely try to steer you towards here. A lot of commercial/CAD software will likely be Windows-only and it’s not worth trying to set up a compatibility layer and troubleshooting issues when they pop up.
If you’re looking for a reliable laptop, I can say Lenovo and Dell are generally reliable. If you wanted to go the Apple hardware I also don’t think you could go wrong with a Macbook if you can afford it, which you could install Windows or any other OS on if you need to.
I have a work-issued Dell laptop which can take a beating and is okay, albeit a bit old at this point and due for a replacement. I have a Macbook Pro that I bought in 2013 and is still going strong, but 11 years later is feeling its age. And I have an MSI gaming laptop which is powerful, but I am not sure is going to survive another couple years.
If you want to go the desktop route, you have a lot more flexibility when it comes to specs and you have the advantage of not having all your components on a single board, so that way down the road if a component fails or you want to add more RAM or add more storage space, you can pretty much swap anything out instead of replacing the entire unit. I don’t know if there’s a “Build a PC” community here on Lemmy but if you take a look at the requirements for the software you want to use and look around the internet for builds that meet those requirements, it will help give an idea of what components you might want to buy.
Not to mention, of course, that Dell and the like will also sell prebuilt desktops with hardware you’re looking for, albeit with a bit of a markup.
Personally, I used to be an amateur shill spotter in my free time, but 8 years ago I was in an auto accident on my way to work that left me paralyzed from the waist down. Shitty as it was, it was honestly the excuse I needed to finally pursue my passions with all this new free time I suddenly had, so I basically went all in and became a full-time shill spotter.
It was going well at first, but I quickly found myself hitting a wall. Lot of shills were flying under the radar that I didn’t see until it was too late. Turns out it wasn’t me, but bad equipment. My fiancee, who sadly passed away a few years ago, bought me this pair of SpezTech credibility goggles that have really elevated my shill spotting game. I wouldn’t have thought I needed them, but now I honestly can’t imagine how I ever went without them. It makes it so much easier to spot astroturfed product placement.
That same pair has held up really well over the years and I probably would have been fine with just the original, but I did get a few specialty pairs that I use for calling out fake sob stories and political bad actors. They weren’t the cheapest, but for what you get out of them, they’re well worth the money.
The other two flags are North Korea (left) and Serbia (right).
North Korea began the Korean War by invading South Korea. It didn’t end well for them (or for the South, for that matter) but South Korea prospers today while the North is…well, North Korea.
For Serbia, it is one of the many states formed from the dissolution of Yugoslavia. Going from one country to several countries which were defined mainly by ethnic association was not a clean transition. There were Serbs living in other former Yugoslav countries, and Serbia used that justification to start occupying those majority-Serbian areas, similar to what Russia has been doing with Ukraine, Transnistria, South Ossetia, and to a lesser extent Abkhazia.
I’m 100+ hours into an honor run and I’ve finally made a decision I apparently can’t live with. I was offered a gift at the end of act 2, and while it was totally out of character for me to accept it, my curiosity got the better of me. I never made it this far before and I wanted to see what would happen. Now I hardly even...
It is when the >!Emperor offers to enhance the power provided by your tadpole by advancing you one stage further in ceremorphosis. You get access to the outer ring of illithid powers but your character’s face also becomes partly pallid and broken, and your eyes get black sclera (if they didn’t already have it. It’s more noticeable on a human or elf than a Dragonborn, though.!<
The friction (and resulting heat) I am assuming would come from wind resistance. Think along similar lines to this classic XKCD article.
650 miles per second, as Malkovich said in the skit, translates to about 2.3 million miles per hour, or about 3.8 million kilometers per hour for the more mathematically reasonable among us out there.
A much lighter meteor traveling much slower than that through the atmosphere is enough to generate the heat needed for combustion, so it would probably apply to Santa in this hypothetical scenario, too.
Seeing a lot of people in this and similar threads confused by the headline apparently not having read the article.
There were no mass layoffs at Larian, the video game studio that developed Baldur’s Gate 3.
There were mass layoffs at Hasbro, the company that owns Wizards of the Coast, which produces the Dungeons & Dragons RPG system used by Baldur’s Gate 3.
Throughout the development of Baldur’s Gate 3, the team at Larian would have been working alongside the team at Hasbro/Wizards of the Coast to make sure the Dungeons & Dragons system was integrated properly into the video game.
Following the layoffs, the CEO of Larian had commented that the D&D team who had helped design the system that Baldur’s Gate 3 is based on is now almost completely gone.
Can we just stop with the megacorp bullshit? Can regulators just please take a step back and look at how much has been ruined by all of these merges and buyouts?
The Warner-Discovery merger never even should have happened in the first place. It was a disaster that ended up making things worse for customers and creators alike. And now they want more?
Fuck off with this noise. What will it take for us to resurrect Teddy Roosevelt so he can go to town with the ol’ trust busting stick?
They also did strike down a merger between pharmacy chains Walgreens and Rite Aid, but that is unrelated to tech and media, making it easier for old farts in congress to understand.
This post was inspired by a post I was reading yesterday. With Honor mode recently being released I thought it would be nice to have a post compiling tips and tricks that might help you get those coveted golden dice....
As always, the paying user has the worst experience. “Purchase” a show, can only watch on a certain console of a certain brand, no transfers, no backups, then it suddenly disappears from the library and nothing can be done....
On the one hand, I sympathize with anyone losing access to How It’s Made and Mythbusters. But for everything else on that list, that money was already thrown away for no good reason. I’d like to hope the audiences were small or non-existent to begin with.
Sony is doing the world a favor by purging most of that garbage from their service, to be perfectly honest.
The Bechdel test is if a movie is able to have two female characters having a conversation with one another about any topic other than a man. A surprising amount of media fails this test.
Björn Ulvaeus is a member of Swedish supergroup ABBA and one of the composers of the ABBA song Waterloo, which is about the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo.
I mean they are fairly similar. They share a lot of vocabulary, their nouns have corresponding declensions, verb conjucations are similar, there are a lot of other similar grammar constructions, and the Latin alphabet is mostly derived from the Greek alphabet, too.
Edit: Classical Greek and Classical Latin, at least. Modern Greek and Romance languages like Italian are further diverged from those ancestor languages to the point that they are difficult for modern speakers to even parse.
“Mama” is not the common word you’d use in Japan, it’s a loanword from watching English/European media. Normally they’d use “Haha”. At least as my neighbor once explained to me.
In Chinese, though, we use “maa maa”, which does sound more similar.
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Sometimes it will be $1099 $899 but they may use subpar quality for Black Friday models compared to standard models.
Like TVs for example, certain models that are discounted on Black Friday have lower quality displays, fewer HDMI ports, cheaper speakers, etc. when compared to the “standard” model from the same line, and the ads will downplay or obscure the exact model number so you think you’re getting something better than you are when you look it up.
I feel iffy on this. I loved the original Karate Kid growing up, but absolutely hated the 2010 remake. Partly because I feel like it is following the trend of just lumping every Asian character into a generic “Kung Fu Guy” stereotype with no room for nuance.
Like, in the original, Mr. Miyagi’s backstory as a Japanese war veteran was pretty significant to his character, and karate being a specifically Japanese fighting style made sense for him to teach.
Not to say you have to be Japanese to learn karate, but that wasn’t even the premise in the 2010 movie, where Mr. Miyagi was swapped out for the Chinese Mr. Han, and the discipline being learned is kung fu, not karate. But that doesn’t matter, does it? Because as far as the white people in the audience are concerned, there’s basically no difference. Asian is Asian, right?
(And being a movie made in cooperation with China Film Group, which is a propaganda arm of the Chinese government, they definitely couldn’t have Mr. Han also be a war veteran who regretted his years of service, because who could ever regret fighting for glorious communism?)
I watched Lower Decks and am also tempted to jump on the Star Trek binge, if only to rewatch Lower Decks again and better catch all of the references.
Granted, I caught a lot of them just by being someone who has used the internet for my entire adolescent through adult life, but I know there’s a lot more good stuff out there to enjoy.
Where can a Boomer catch up on current computer/software technology?
I have an eight-year-old laptop that needs replacing and I’m paralyzed. What are the most reliable ones now? Do I need a desktop for CAD? Pros and cons of operating systems (and where do I find them?) Browsers ditto? Where do I find answers that aren’t just product marketing?
Gonna need a bigger bowl! (lemmy.world)
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The lamest countries (lemmy.world)
Ending my honor run in shame
I’m 100+ hours into an honor run and I’ve finally made a decision I apparently can’t live with. I was offered a gift at the end of act 2, and while it was totally out of character for me to accept it, my curiosity got the better of me. I never made it this far before and I wanted to see what would happen. Now I hardly even...
You understand? (lemmy.world)
John Malkovich’s voice and spectacular cadence in your head:...
Yummy Mummy (lemmy.world)
'There's almost nobody left': CEO of Baldur's Gate 3 dev Swen Vincke says the D&D team he initially worked with is gone, due to Hasbro layoffs (www.pcgamer.com)
Suffering and success.
Cate Blanchett launches program to empower female, trans & nonbinary filmmakers (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Paramount, Warner Bros Discovery are in early talks to merge (archive.today)
Baldur's Gate 3 tips and tricks for Honor Mode (startrek.website)
This post was inspired by a post I was reading yesterday. With Honor mode recently being released I thought it would be nice to have a post compiling tips and tricks that might help you get those coveted golden dice....
My own Maine flag redesign (media.kbin.social)
She was right in 1992, the Catholic Church is still filled with pedophiles. (lemmy.world)
Sony is going to remove certain purchased titles from user libraries (www.playstation.com)
As always, the paying user has the worst experience. “Purchase” a show, can only watch on a certain console of a certain brand, no transfers, no backups, then it suddenly disappears from the library and nothing can be done....
Also, it's over 2 1/2 hours long. (lemmy.world)
De omnibus dubitandum (lemmy.zip)
They're basically the same right? (lemmy.world)
Black Friday (files.mastodon.online)
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Which tricolor flag do you think is the ugliest, considering only the color combination? Here are some candidates that I have found. (files.catbox.moe)
Jackie Chan, Ralph Macchio Set For New ‘Karate Kid’ Movie (deadline.com)
Amiright? (lemmy.zip)