If you are a complete hard-liner, you’re going to run into one very particular, and peripheral, obstacle: your employer will almost certainly issue you a Windows laptop. It may not be a large part of your job, but it will be there. Very few companies will offer a Mac, and even fewer will offer Linux.

You might have to work as a freelancer, taking on tasks that can be done without Windows. But even something like web dev will require testing on Windows.

Given the price I’ve seen for those services, that will be the first group to get gouged. People are apparently willing to pay a massive premium for them.

Somehow, the greatest music ever made is always from your senior year of high school.

How accessible are those components? How accessible are they for you? Most laptops these days require some specialized opening tools and a lot of care. It may not be something you can reasonably do on your own.

In either case, as of right now, I’d say buy on both. Later upgrades are not going to be cheap for a while.

It was a brief period where many people wanted a feature (usually playing CDs) that was not available on the installed unit. You may have also noticed the market for new aftermarket car stereos suddenly rose, and then collapsed.

These days, it’s all about adapters.

The locals call it “cornhenge”

The entire point is to intimidate the troops, particularly those who would follow their oath to the Constitution. It’s meant to be the stick, not the carrot

There was also the related claim that the British pilots ate so many carrots it was turning their skin orange.

I think he’s trying to say there should be more taboo. That there should be a lot more restrictions than just consent.

I’m glad he’s dead.

You’re getting downvoted, but I experienced much of the same. So much misogyny and, looking back on it, toxic masculinity. I vividly remember the bit where they used tape to illustrate “purity” of not having multiple partners.

This would’ve been the late 90s, US Midwest.

ETA: I wouldn’t say it went quite as far as describing women as “submissive cum dumpsters”, but it definitely implied the women don’t enjoy sex and only did it to satisfy their partner.

Do you understand the code, what it’s doing, and why it’s doing that? If not, then do not use an LLM for it.

There are only a few reasons her lawyers would ever tell her not to plead the fifth, and this isn’t one of them. She simply has nothing to gain by answering Congress’ questions.

It screws up the entire economy and society, too. If you can’t afford insurance, you certainly can’t afford the hospital bills. And that’s taking money and resources from people that are actually doing something good for society. And it stresses a system that’s already limited, which is why the emergency room always has a multi-hour wait. And it stresses your job, because you need an unplanned absence.

Not OP, but funerals are very cheap compared to any serious illness or injury. Because of this, there are a number of conspiracy theories that things that could injure you are instead designed to kill you.

Some very quick googling says that a typical funeral is under $10k. You’ll rack that up every single day that you’re in the hospital.

It’s literally in the sub headline of the linked article

Doctors have long recommended that infants avoid peanut products. But in 2017, experts officially reversed that guidance, and food allergies decreased sharply.

I have no idea where you came up with what you posted.

There is that meme floating around about a salmon learning that named a color after them. I’m sure there are a ton of other examples.

Thinkpads are enterprise machines, so they aren’t really designed for gaming. But there’s a lot of overlap with things like graphics rendering, so they do have some options.

The T series is the standard corporate line (usually T14) for the average office worker. These sometimes have a dGPU available. You’d probably want something in the P line, but those are much more expensive.

Much like the consumer lines from other brands, it’s a lot of cost-cutting. Plastic everything, hinges that break prematurely, limited power filtering, that sort of thing.

One that frequently pops up (although I’m not familiar with that particular model) is poor cooling. Heat kills many gaming laptops, either directly or indirectly. That can mean needing more fans/bigger vents, being unable to clean them, or liquid metal thermal paste that leaks and shorts out.

Don’t just consider the brand. You have to consider the line/model.

Lenovo’s consumer lines (Ideapad, Legion, and others) are all absolute garbage, and you shouldn’t consider them for even a second. But their enterprise line (Thinkpad) is generally very, very good. The main problem is that they’re expensive.

Asus is strictly consumer-grade. They do not have an enterprise line. Their build quality is among the best you can find in consumer-grade, but enterprise-grade is always higher quality than consumer-grade.

I would never leave an OEM load on it, so privacy isn’t much of a concern for me. I suspect they’re both pretty bad in this regard.

There’s a fan edit called Game of Thrones Redeemed. Apparently it fixes that trainwreck into something reasonably satisfying, although I’ve not seen it yet.