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If you're looking at new laptops, there's two main things to look out for IMO: soldered on RAM, and a plastic chassis.

Over the years I've had the unfortunate experience of repairing so many broken HP laptops in particular that I just avoid them out of principle. They tend to place a lot of heat generating components internally right beside the lid hinge, causing the plastic there to weaken and start to break off. On some occasions I've seen this plastic get stuck inside the nearby CPU fan, which causes the laptop to overheat and shut down on you without warning.

There are other companies that used to be more sensible with their component placement, like Asus and Fujitsu, but IMO it would be relatively safe to pick a laptop with a non-plastic chassis that feels good to use.

No, a desktop is not mandatory for CAD. I personally use both a 4 yo desktop and a 12 yo laptop just fine

Everyone else has posted some really helpful answers for your other questions so I'll end my post here!

I've had my MX Master for about 4 years now, best mouse I've owned. Tracks on almost every surface, easy enough to open and replace the internal battery, and feels great in the hand. The dual friction scroll wheel is amazing for scrolling through large webpages, folders, and lines of code.

Really wish it was at least a bit open source though. It's capable of so much with the extra built in buttons and additional scroll wheel, but outside of Windows and Mac they are not very programmable

I'm going to be completely honest - I have no idea what other word can be used in its place to convey what it means in this context.

The intended audience will know that your post didn't intend to offend IMO

Defragging is the fix for this, but that's not available on SSDs.

You'd need a dedicated partition management program to work around this issue. There is one major caveat - this could negatively affect the life of the SSD due to something called write amplification.

Personally I would suggest using another disk if you have one available...

Your BIOS just has some issues, that's completely normal. Windows keeps this stuff silent, but Linux typically tells you

This needs to be a top comment, not a lot of people are aware that the option changes if the site has been developed specifically as a PWA

The bot quotes in this article completely messed up the AutoTLDR here, wow

At least this policy is making it easy to spot bot accounts and autogenerated product listings.

These sellers should be shadowbanned and penalized, there is absolutely no justification to have an LLM auto-generate product listings unless the intent is to create spam

TIL here too.

I hope Framework brings their accounting in house, there's no guarantee that another firm they choose won't succomb to a similar fate. Unfortunate all round for the customers though, particularly considering the probably privacy-focused ones that would have been attracted to a more "open" Framework machine and picked one up

I'm not so sure about clients that are specifically focused on security and privacy, however my general FOSS mobile app suggestions would be Voyager for a polished UX, or Eternity for a more native Android experience.

Both are available on GitHub and F-Droid

The level of downvotes on this comment is absolutely wild, although unsurprising since the OP is about a W for Linux...

On the flipside at least we're not a certain other website that restricts user activity based on their internet points... so OC can still participate without their stuff being auto deleted by a bot

You don't get 4K on Windows or Mac either unless you have a HDCP-compatible display, a supported graphics card, and typically the devices will refuse to initiate a handshake due to the locality check failing, or a difference in HDCP version - Unless you have a "smart" TV you're watching in 1080p or lower.

Piracy point still stands: why pay for a service that does not guarantee to give you what you are specifically paying for, and actually goes out of their way to block your access?

Netflix may take away their subscription but they can't take away my Transmission and VLC.

Glad I picked up Assetto Corsa instead. That sim is 11 years old and has amazing graphics, a thriving community, and isn't "always online"... GTS is only 6 years old in comparison.

I think GTS and FMS are going to eventually be a struggle to sell once people catch on to the fact that these franchises are being turned into very expensive recurring game subscriptions, which is a shame given how much these types of games have been decreasing in popularity since the peak of the early 2000s

Haven't watched the video, going by your title I'm assuming it's similar to a feature on macbooks where they can be plugged straight into another Mac, thunderbolt, or FireWire device, while powered off, and have their hard drive accessed directly from another computer.

There is code for this in the Linux kernel (sadly not quite the plug and play experience that Macs have, you need to boot after plugging in AFAIK?), and a news article about the commit that added it to the kernel for Thunderbolt was posted to this community a while back. Sadly I have no idea what devices support it, but it is at least is open source.

There’s a free trial of Nebula called YouTube

Lemmy silver award for you, this comment had my dying with laughter

Sounds a lot like a smartphone where one SoC chip does pretty much everything... CPU, cell modem, WiFi, USB host/device switching, quick charge, the whole lot 😢

Sad to see how Pixar has fallen, most likely thanks to Disney owning them

Honestly I'm at the point where I'm more likely to "not miss" a Dreamworks or Illumination animation, rather than a Disney one

It's Valve's IP and assets being utilized at the end of the day sadly, and looking at the last time they got involved with Nintendo, as well as Nintendo's hatred towards emulation and reverse engineering, I wouldn't be surprised if Valve's legal team considered the options before issuing a C&D to the two N64 fan projects.

From Nintendo's perspective these are both unlicensed homebrew, implicitly allowed by the IP owner Valve... who they were in legal correspondence to fairly recently. It would be very unwise for Valve to let this slide given the circumstances, although admittedly it is not a great outcome at all

Since you're open to paying, have a look around the video descriptions of channels like Wendover and HAI, they often have promo links to get nebula for around ~$25-35 for the year, works out to just under $3 per month.

I'm not aware of anywhere that pirates Nebula content, although I'm aware that floatplane (similar but less popular platform) used to get pirated to YouTube on a regular basis a looooong time ago

I really want to love WINE, but it's so difficult to find .net framework installers that actually work on it. Luckily the few Windows apps I use under Linux work with Wine (using Mono as an alternative to .net), or were compiled for XP so run OOTB without any framework install necessary