TheBananaKing @ TheBananaKing @lemmy.world

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If they're not careful, there's a risk he might furrow his brow while handing over the next billion dollars worth of cluster bombs

Any parent knows that you can't go straight from doing-stuff to sleep; your brain needs some veg-out stuff to just process things. (I mean, I can sleep, but something unpleasant builds up if you don't let decompression happen)

By the time I've left work, done grocery shopping, made dinner, cleaned up after dinner, done laundry etc, it's already late, and I've had no me-time to just decompress. (especially when chores drag out longer the more tired I get...)

And apart from that, there's a mixture of FOMO, resentment and just clawing-for-agency that makes me rebel against the only boundary I can shift, even though I'm the one that suffers for it.

BECAUSE OF US VETOES.

Jesus.

Yeah, super standoffish. You can tell by how it's made no fucking difference, while the US sells them hundreds of thousands of tons of bombs and shells.

But they crooked an eyebrow while doing it, and that's what really matters.

Oh: if you're doing fancy-schmancy 3d industrial CAD stuff for designing car engines or the like, you'd want to make sure you have a nice GPU, which is typically in the 'gaming laptop' category if you're going laptop.

However if you're just doing ordinary diagrams and stuff, then onboard video will be absolutely fine.

Desktops have a lot more bang-per-buck than laptops, and are significantly more repairable/upgradable. Laptops make a lot of compromises to squeeze everything into a portable form-factor that runs on batteries. However, only you can say whether that outweighs the space/portability benefits of a laptop, for your use-case.

I'm a sysadmin, I work with Linux every single day, and I say to you: do not go Linux. It isn't designed for what you want it for; it's somewhere between the hobbyist/industrial spaces, whereas you want and need something consumer-focused. Get a nice straightforward Windows box.

Macs are also decent, though they're even more bucks-per-bang than laptops, and there aren't mac versions of every application; you'd need to check what's out there.

Operating systems come with the computer if you're buying them retail; you can buy them separately if you're building from parts. Linux is free to download.

Laptops can be ergonomics hell; tiny keyboards, little screens right at desk level - if you're working at them all day, a proper monitor and keyboard are de rigeur - at which point, you may as well have a desktop, unless you need to take your computer with you when you go places.

Brands, ehh. HP and Dell are decent, but whatever. Or if you're a getting a desktop, you could build your own and save a packet, but that's a whole other rabbit hole of complexity to dive into.

You need SSD, not HDD. HDD is slow as hell, physically fragile, makes annoying grunting noises... just don't even consider it. SSD is unbelievably faster and better in every respect. A little more expensive, but worth every penny. Don't go less than 500GB, preferably 1TB.

RAM, you need 16GB at the bare minimum; consider 32GB.

Monitors: preferably 27", at least 1920x1080, consider 2560x1440 or even 4k. You don't need high refresh rate, you do want an IPS-type panel. Having two monitors will greatly improve your quality of life, if you can swing it.

CPU: there's a million and thirty different ones out there. Just get something released in the last couple of years, you'll be fine in most cases. There's usually a shoulder in the price-performance curve about 75% of the way up the rankings; that's the optimal place to buy if you want something that will keep you going a good while without getting ridiculous.

They clearly just really love genocidal fascist bastards.

I have no doubt in my mind that the ICJ will find a way to fuck Palestine over even harder.

They will either smirk and say 'nah', or they will throw up their hands and declare themselves powerless to actually change anything.

Most places serve coffee that tastes like warm milk with a hint of beige, by default.

Adding an extra shot is your best hope of it actually tasting like coffee, regardless of caffeine content.

I can still taste that toothpaste

There's an actual submission from there written by me (and posted by someone else). I am (very) mildly internet famous, under another handle.

Can confirm that at least one of them is genuine.

Huffing insecticide not a good idea. News at 11.

You don't form longterm memories while asleep; you lose the last few minutes before you drop off, as well. Short-term memories are held, but they don't get stored.

And the same applies while you're dreaming - nothing's getting recorded. You can pull it out of short-term right after you wake up, but that fades right out.

When you do remember dreams, it's because you remember remembering them while you were awake. If it was vivid enough to go over hard enough, then the second-hand memory gets stored.

Gotta love the abusive-relationship mechanic from the dems.

"Yes, I'm a toxic piece of shit, but without me you'll be starving on the streets. So stop complaining, make me a sandwich, and tell me you love me. Now."

And anyone suggesting that maybe they should leave anyway... is smeared as just wanting to drive victims into homelessness and prostitution.

If you want people to vote for you, be good enough to vote for on your own merits.

If you're struggling to get votes despite your opponent being literally Trump, then you need to take a long hard look in the mirror.

third party cookies != cookies

Unless they've invented a stateful http, cookies aren't going anywhere.

The disclosure isn't complete, it's only the people who haven't been excluded in previous orders.

As all the perpetrators are rich and can afford fancy lawyers, that mainly just leaves the victims.

So yeah, the victims are the ones that will get fucked over. Again.

oh ffs, don't be pedantic. It provides a desktop environment, if you select one - we use xfce as best of the bunch.

My point isn't the window manager, it's the whole ecosystem. It's the million little hidden folders clogging up your home directory, it's the haphazard set of default graphical apps that get installed, it's having to fuck around to get dbus running by default for the handful of applications that silently timeout and die without it, it's having to delete lockfiles for users after a crash, it's the general production values of a 90s shareware cdrom.

Just imagine trying to get general admin staff set up with that, and trying to support them - It'd be as horrible and painful as trying to set up developers or your network infrastructure under windows.

And at the end of the day, 90% of the things you need your desktop environment for are admin-staff kinds of tasks. Poking around on the web, mail, media, printing (and of course video games), which are just better and easier without the all propeller-hat shit.

Mmm, slavery. Tasty.

Yes, linux is terrible on the desktop.

I've worked in a Linux shop for the last 20 years, we provide a desktop-linux environment (latest debian) for thousands of users, and even with dedicated professionals managing it, the UX is just hilariously terrible by modern standards, right across the board.

My god that's the perfect metaphor: it's the desktop-experience version of PHP. No one thing is particularly broken in and of itself, but the set of all of them together... SMH.

I refuse to deal with it on a daily basis for file-print-web-email stuff; I use a Windows box as my desktop machine, and just SSH or VNC into the backend for the actual sysadmin part of my job. OSX is usable too, but I just don't like it.

To be absolutely clear: Linux is the only sane choice for backend services or development; no normal person would willingly subject themselves to Windows for either of those purposes. But for the box you physically plug your mouse into, using linux is sheer masochism.

What fucking US pressure? They just overrode congress to throw even more money into the genocide.

Fuck's sake.