Why do people still recommend Thinkpads for Linux when there are Linux-oriented manufacturers now?
Yeah but it's incredibly expensive for the gimmick of upgradability down the line. It's like buying a maxed out MacBook Pro worth of disassembled components, bringing your own RAM, SSD and OS. As much as I want repairable, upgradable, holy grail laptops, they are way to expensive for the average consumer right now. A 16 without RAM/SSD/OS comes out to like 3k CAD -- including everything with assembly, it comes out to over 3.5k.
Framework laptops are interesting and I hope eventually the modularity allows the components to go down in price. Right now I was looking at a 16 (which all sold out within 3 hours of pre-order launch) but it comes out to easily over 3k CAD for a disassembled kit, skimping on RAM and an SSD.
Thinkpads are cheap and accessible basically everywhere. They are business-grade devices and you can get one when folks retire their machines. A lot of places practically give them away. They were just gonna get thrown out anyways.
Framework is dumb expensive - a 16 even skimping out on RAM/HDDs comes out to over 3k CAD, and that's for a disassembled kit -- pre-built with full components comes out to easily over 3.5k, which is like a MacBook price for the promise of upgradability down the line.
System76 are rebranded shitty components from Chinese manufacturers. They're not better for Linux than any general consumer laptop, and their entire position is basically branding regarding freedom and 1776. Ironic that a company so deeply American in nature basically just resells garbage from China.
It was definitely only established in ENT, but by doing so they established it early enough in the timeline that they're able to call back to it. Like the other poster said, it's only mentioned by T'pol a few times, notably during the siege of P'jem. She notes how she takes a nasal numbing agent because humans smell bad to Vulcans, and that it was wearing off during the hostage situation.
Further to that, it's mentioned by Spock in SNW as a result of it being established in ENT.
The Glorious mouse is a pain in the ass. It literally prevents my laptop from booting sometimes when it's plugged in.
Keychron, however, I can back 100%. I have two of their C2 wired mechanicals, one with white backlight and one without. I use the backlit one on my personal gaming machine and use the non-backlit one on my work machine in the office. Sometimes gaming is in the dark but work never is. They make a very well built keyboard. Robust, easy to repair when anything goes wrong.
Yeah because Twitter is not a real place. The actual D&D community spoke with their wallets and they said "we like a good, finished product without stupid terms of use" and all bought BG3. People who don't even play D&D bought BS3 to play with folks who do play D&D.
It's a perfect digitization of D&D 5th edition - it's like having an automatic dungeon master using the rules and regulations we've been playing with on paper for ages.
It has a massive plot that can vary wildly on playthroughs depending on how rolls go, just like the real version.
It's four-player co-op with PVE in an age where cooperation is increasingly rare outside of competitive team games.
It's a well designed, properly built, finished product that can be expanded on with DLC, rather than using them to address core gameplay issues. (looking at you Paradox)
Yeah they rebrand it as the "Starz" catalogue when it's a bit too mature for the D+ brand. From my understanding, that branding is actually very popular in Asia and they introduced it to North America through the Canadian D+ offerings.
I agree that D+ is actually the best bang for your buck streaming service, because their catalogue is relatively static since they own all the rights. That catalogue doesn't really need to be Netflix massive because it's mostly quality content, while Netflix is still pumping out garbage. Finally the cherry on top is having all the Fox content through the Starz branding.
The TV offerings have given an endless amount of merchandising opportunities. The trilogy is not important, because the TV shows have been good. All I really need to say is two words: Baby Yoda.
I say this as I am wearing a Mandalorian t-shirt, looking over at my Lego build of the N1 fighter, thinking about all of the new Star Wars content coming out of the Dave Filoni camp. I think of all the casual fans who clamor for the cute Grogu merch. People like my sister who have no real interest in Star Wars are very into Grogu much the same way folks are into baby Groot.
My guy you're talking about the studio that sold BB-8 branded oranges. You'd be surprised what people buy.
Having the ability to do merchandising with Family Guy and The Simpsons in addition to the catalog offerings is the obvious win. There's so much stupid branded shit. Fox was always the best about merchandising because they got their lunch stolen by George Lucas on Star Wars.
The Simpsons and Family Guy alone are worth 70 billion. You factor in merchandising and catalog, there are a lot of people who would just sign up to a streaming service just for those shows. The Simpsons is a merchandising juggernaut. There's billions of dollars in the stupid branded shit - this is also why they bought Star Wars and have basically shrugged off the fact that they botched the trilogy with the immense amount of money they are able to print off of the merchandising.
In Canada they do have the Fox/Hulu library as part of Disney+ because Hulu never launched here - we're a tangled web of media rights between the telcom conglomerates that own the rights to most of the stuff and keep the market noncompetitive. Most of the rights of Fox stuff was probably owned by Rogers or Bell and therefore not worth launching the service up here. That's how HBO is. HBO's content is all licensed by Bell so it's on their shitty streaming service. Most of us would pay for HBO or MAX or whatever the fuck if it was a standalone service, but we can't.
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I think it becomes a problem on larger instances that don't have the manpower to manually read and flag users, which would definitely be the place that .world is in. .ca is a much smaller instance and it's still feasible to do stuff like this by hand.
I don't think .world would benefit from implementing a check, all things considered though. The easier it is to onboard to the fediverse the better we'll all be in the long run, even if it's concentrated in a few central places.
voat failed because it became full of literal Nazis and basically all the hateful refugees from all the subs that got shut down. Pao shutting down FPH was a trigger but it made the worst of the platform migrate.
The fact that there were active communities on voat that were just too toxic for reddit like coontown and other just straight up totally racist subs made the place immediately turn into a massive toxic waste repository - at best it served as a quarantine zone for those people, and at worst it served as a communications platform for spreading additional hate.
It literally takes ten seconds and it's an easy way to filter out bots.
lemmy.ca had semi-closed invites and I just wrote that I was migrating away from reddit and wanted to join a local instance as a Canadian. It was like two sentences and I got approved in under an hour.
What genius decided to even allow .zip TLDs? It's such an easy and open attack vector. We don't need all these stupid gimmick TLDs.
I don't see how their number of users is a legitimate problem. If it was causing issues due to day-to-day usage causing problematic queries that would be one thing, but it's been made clear that this is not a day-to-day issue with numbers, it's an active attack issue that's exploiting those heavy queries. It's not like the number of users are causing a hug-of-death style DDOS by calling the aforementioned queries.
If the users are a problem, it's only due to people being basically jealous of the user count on .world and picking it as the chief instance to fuck with, like picking the biggest guy in the jail lunchroom to prove you're a badass.
The main issues I have with Lemmy.world is basically how culturally tied to Reddit some users are, and I just want to get away from that.
I hang out on smaller instances because there's less people trying to uphold reddit standards and BS. Stuff like keeping track of defederations, but then claiming they're all based around some drama. Stuff like that is ultimately unhealthy for the site and was a root cause of reddit becoming more and more toxic over time.
The Lenovos are cheaper to repair by and large, because there's just so many of them. I find HPs have overheating issues and I steer clear of them as a manufacturer.