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Bought a thinkpad L450 10 years ago for about 900 euros. No GPU, which probably increased its lifespan. Replaced its HDD with a SSD.

Apart from thinkpads and maybe framework, I don't think there is any other reliable laptop brand with reasonable prices.

I was talking with my mother about buying jeans pants that would last for a long time, and a 200 euros jeans would have holes on its 6th year or something. Everything is built to last "just long enough".

It's just insane that I can't find biscuits will less sugar.

Not aspartame or similar, just biscuits will half or one third of the sugar.

"we give people heroin and they ask for more, it's the addicts' fault"

I use the strict cookie policy on firefox, and set cookies to be deleted at shutdown. I just save credentials and login to platforms each time.

I joined the mozilla matrix, and ironically, this caused the auth system to completely break down for some reason since I would log in each time.

It suggested to reset the whatever login data cookie thing because it did not want to trust me anymore, displaying red warning or whatever.

I asked around, and apparently they disagreed about that strict cookie policy, which felt quite ironic coming from the mozilla community.

Or pfas, plastic...

I suspect there are cybersecurity stakes regarding win11 and win10, but I am not entirely sure.

I think that the spectre mitigation are not a problem in win11 because win11 is not supported on CPU that are vulnerable, which might be a reason they encourage people to get win11 and get a new PC, but that's an unverified guess, I am just trying to get them the benefit of the doubt.

SteamOS looks like it might take a lot of the windows cake, but it remains to be seen if they will be able to.

So far it doesn't look like SteamOS supports most of PC hardware out there, but it could be a next step for Valve.

indie game? with their budget and staff? really?

those guys worked in AAA studios and they got a 10 millions budget

how "indie" is that?

I disagree

What really matters is judiciary due process and the legitimacy of a government.

Companies are the ones gathering data, it's not the government doing it.

Before the internet, governments already had data on their citizens.

The internet makes it more difficult for the government to catch criminals and fraudsters.

If you live in Russia or China or under Trump's administration, there are good reasons to hide.

If you live in a country where freedoms and due process are respected, there is no point in hiding, UNLESS you can really argue that due process and freedoms are eroding, but that's a different debate.

They were under NDA, probably

But the science was probably not

I don't think this is classified technology, although asml would like it if they were punished.

And even if it's patented, China has been stealing everything with little consequence

I wish I had a job

But honestly I settled with my unemployment.

I just don't want to deal with all the bs of applying, and playing nice with recruiters. Either they need me or they don't. I don't want to play games.

I don't have the privilege of having a degree or being well networked, or being a great developer.

It's a market. There can't be a job for everyone.

If a government is legitimately elected, and respects due process, I don't see why people would want to hide from the government.

There are very few situations where a journalist would need to hide himself from a legitimate government who respects due process.

With the Trump administration, in China, Russia, yes of course. Those apps do matter. Conventional apps are probably giving data to abusive governments if their laws require it.

With criminals using those apps to not get caught in those legitimate due process countries, I don't really know if those apps are worth using it they help criminals.

I agree that I don't want to give my data to big companies or for ads.

But I trust a legitimate government and due process.

So it could be possible to make a small portable screen device with this, or maybe not because (I think) the RPI is not optimized to work on a battery.

I would prefer a touchscreen with it.

I am not talking about a smartphone, because smartphones are often more powerful, more expensive. I would just prefer a device to do simple computing, with full access to the OS.

Smartphones tend to have android and powerful hardware, and a 4G or 5G antenna. I would just be happy with wifi and enough power to run some C or python code.

I am just curious what is the cheapest screen device that is possible to make with this, as long as it has wifi, a touch screen and be completely open. So far RPI is nice, but it's not really what I want.

I've read people say that some of the documents were fake to sensationalize the story.

With Putin and China, honestly I prefer feeling like the US has the best cyber weapons available, and I am not even american.

"Privacy" is different in the digital age. Computers make it easier for criminals to do what they do, so it's fair if the government tries to peek into it.

The problem is that software distributors might break laws if the said drivers lands on unlicensed hdmi hardware, so they should be liable to check if the hardware is properly licensed, which might generate headaches.

Or maybe lawyers cannot anticipate everything that happens in court, so it just feels better to do things properly and not try to circumvent laws, especially when you're valve. It's better to not take risks.

I still don't understand what is cloudflare's business model, yet they manage to make news.

I don't see how their main product is ddos protection, yet cloudflare goes down for some reason.

This company makes zero sense to me.

I don't understand the point of this thing.

Maybe competing with other engines, but it's hard to know how good enough this will be.

The age of mods is over, we're in the age of engines now, I don't think they will catch up.

Valve is not a game company anymore, they out source everything.

orthodox C++ should be a subset of C++, I would really use it, like if there was a compiler flag

I can imagine it might be insanely faster to compile

A french government website, to access my 4k euros to pay for a training I am owed to.

Still pretty important.

Sometimes I find important websites I use which breaks with Firefox

There is an annoying bug in firefox where user/pass autofill doesn't work for some websites, like reddit or others.

Still not fixed

I don't want to believe it until it happens.

NVIDIA and AMD can decide to undermine it if Linux doesn't yield enough profits for them.

Even if only one of them undermines linux, linux gaming might have trouble progressing and game developers might just ignore Linux gaming.

Microsoft could also undermine it if they really wanted.

I don't understand what's the business of cloudflare.

They just sell proxies, to whoever.

Why are they the only company doing ddos protection?

I just don't get it.

I started making a language, and I took many shortcuts.

I just parse my language, translate it to C, and use C compiler errors.

I don't add new semantics, I just add many things like strings, map, etc to make it usable and fast.

I don't know if it's a good idea and how difficult this will be.

Laptops are difficult to cool down, they're bad for gaming.

Unless they remove fans, or have limited hardware, but that's already a steam deck: just add a keyboard and a larger screen.

yes

I like neither C nor zig

C is too verbose, Zig has too many features and things.

I would rather have some sort of "improved C", without the complexity of C++, but with things map, string, vector math, etc, just standard quality-of-life stuff.

Zig has the same problems rust has: its syntax is too complicated, too modern and sophisticated.

Language designers need to understand that programmers are not always patient, smart or motivated to learn all those things. It's the 101 of user experience: make it easy and intuitive.

The programming language who dominate, dominate because they are accessible to lesser skilled people.

The more complex it is, the fewer chance it will reach adoption.

yeah, always the usual: eat better and do physical activity

unfortunately, depression cripples my motivation to do physical activity

I still do some, but it's never enough

read the original comment

physical activity is unnatural, because species are not expected to exercise for their health, since they already exercise naturally

I trust american institutions more than I trust chinese institutions

My guess is that pollution is the root cause.

Particulate matter

Pfa pfs

Bpa

Microplastics

Nitrous oxide (car engines)

And other things that can pass the brain blood barrier

Society banned lead, asbestos already, but there are so many more.