Just found out there are tons of people on Youtube actually doing the former, and given the amount of anime avatars present, my assumption is there must be some number of them simultaneously doing the latter

Those things are too rich for my blood, but it seems to me like the concept is a great idea, and it would be nice if something like that became cheaper and standardized across brands.

I've always been really annoyed by the fact that laptops with socketed CPUs disappeared a decade ago. And these days a ton of laptop manufacturers are very eager to solder the SSD and RAM as well. This occasionally goes as far as laptops with permanent, soldered single channel RAM, and that's horrifying. These things are destined to be e-waste, ending up in landfills far sooner than typical for equivalent desktop components.

When you upgrade a desktop you have so many more options that will save you money over buying a totally new system. GPUs are essentially plug 'n play. You can often upgrade the CPU just as easily, though every once in a while you'll need to replace the motherboard. Same goes for RAM. Everything else can almost always be reused: the case, the fans, the CPU cooler, the storage, the monitor, the mouse, and the keyboard. Even the PSU if you're not getting a significantly more power hungry CPU or GPU. All of that can add up to a ton of money.

Socketed CPUs in laptops are probably never coming back due to how much space they tend to take up. And laptop GPUs will probably never be socketed in the first place for the same reason. But if you could buy a standardized chassis and simply swap out entire motherboards that come in a standardized laptop form factor, upgrading would be so much more cost efficient, as would laptop repair. Also, lets bring back easily removable and swappable laptop batteries while we're at it.

Unfortunately, this all flies in the face of the inherent capitalist enshittification going on with consumer electronics, and I'm skeptical Framework will ever be anything more than a very expensive niche for enthusiasts who like to tinker with their devices. But I don't see any technical reasons why something like this wouldn't be possible and practical.

Generally speaking, I get the feeling I should stick to something that isn't worth enough for felony theft charges to apply, so no RTX 4090 or 4080. The 4070 Ti isn't at all a bad deal for $0.00, so I suppose that's the one.

I've heard conflicting reports on how likely Amazon is to refund you if you simply claim the box showed up with a brick in it. I've also seen conflicting reports on whether or not they'll actually check if a return has the same serial number on it. What say you, Hexbear?

Sometimes I wonder what it's like to be a dog or really any other non-human animal, and I think about how simple their understanding of the world around them must be given their lack of ability for much abstract thought. We take for granted all the ideas that are extremely obvious to us that other animals will absolutely never come close to understanding.

There are no creatures on Earth smarter than humans. Elephants, cetaceans, and non-human apes may come closer than we perhaps realize, but there are no creatures that absolutely crush us on this front, we have yet to be humbled. I feel like this gives rise to the common perception that human intelligence is infinite, that we are destined to understand every truth about the universe given a long enough timeline and enough effort.

That's a comforting thing to believe, but I don't think it makes sense when there's no reason at all to think we're the apex of intelligent lifeforms in this universe. It not impossible that there are alien species out there that would view our understanding of the world in much the same way we view that of other animals.

In that case, the implication is that there are any number of shockingly huge and fundamental revelations about the universe sitting right under our noses that we simply lack the ability to even perceive much less understand. This to me can be a bit of an unsettling line of thought to explore. It's the fear of the unknown with heavy reinforcement from the likely possibility that the unknown will always exist, often just beyond our reach.

Upon looking it up in the Dell service manual for this model, I found the spec sheet actually lists compatibility with both 3200MT/s and 2666MT/s. But of course the fine print had some caveats. Apparently only the SKU of this model that included an MX350 dedicated GPU has the privilege of running the memory at 3200MT/s.

Is there a technical reason for this or is it just another example of bullshit product segmentation? I can't imagine why the presence of a dGPU would allow for faster system RAM. That seemingly implies that the motherboard in my laptop is probably perfectly capable of doing the same, but has been artificially limited in the firmware. This really pisses me off because it's the iGPU model that would have greatly benefited from faster memory since iGPUs pull from the system RAM. They don't have fancy dedicated VRAM optimized for bandwidth.

It sucks that lower end laptops always have jack shit for tuning options in their BIOS. I feel like a lot of performance is left on the table when it comes to these things.

66 million years ago, a massive 17km wide asteroid impacted what is now the modern day Yucatan peninsula at 25km/s. The immediate collision was so violent that the resulting crater floor was briefly deeper than the Mariana Trench while the crater rim was briefly taller than Mt. Everest. In total, it killed off 75% of all animal and plant species on this planet, including the dinosaurs.

The linked video is a real time demonstration of the catastrophic events that would occur within the first hour after impact if a similar asteroid were to hit Earth today.

I'm basically asking about the most notable 24 hours in human history.

Btw, I'm going to become a super-soldier mech pilot for the Britannian empire to brutally put down resistance groups fighting against the multiple ongoing genocides in the numbered zones.

MOTHERFUCKER, GAZA IS AN OPEN AIR PRISON WITH A POPULATION DENSITY SIGNIFICANTLY LARGER THAN NEW YORK CITY. THEY ARE SURROUNDED BY A LITERAL WALL WATCHED BY ISRAELI SNIPERS. LITERALLY WHERE ELSE CAN YOU POSSIBLY EXPECT THEM TO CONGREGATE

FUCK AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

wtf, this is just Kaiji

Why did no one tell me this sooner? It's not just as if Kaiji got a live action reboot series, it's as if Kaiji got a live action reboot series that was actually good!

The next season looks like it's right around the corner, so I'm glad I've managed to avoid waiting a couple years in anticipation. Just hope the next games don't in any way involve a fucking pachlnko machine

They never come out anywhere near as good as a freshly made pizza at a pizzeria when I follow the box directions. I imagine some of that is a result of freezing the pizza, but I think the directions might be the bigger factor. So my plan is to try emulating the conditions of a proper pizza oven to the best of my ability by:

• Thawing the pizza out before cooking
• Preheating the oven to its hottest setting (500f) with a metal baking sheet inside it
• Putting the pizza directly onto the hot sheet and closely monitoring until it looks done

This is still a very far cry from a pizza stone and an actual pizza oven, but I'm hoping it'll at least be somewhat closer to the real thing. Am I going in the right direction with this / do you have any better ideas?

This will be an annular eclipse, meaning the moon will be too distant from Earth to fully block out the sun. Instead, the moon will block out 90.7% of the sun's disk from the perspective of those along the path of greatest eclipse, the yellow path on the above map. The remaining 9.3% of the sun's disk will be visible around the moon in an annulus shape- a ring of non-zero thickness. Hence why it's called an annular eclipse.

Outside of the path of greatest eclipse, the vast majority of both American continents will see at least a partial eclipse. You can use the orange paths to estimate maximum solar obscuration from your area. The time of maximum eclipse is at 1:59pm EDT.

Remember not to ever look directly at the sun without proper eye protection, not even during an eclipse! In the absence of proper protection, the best way to observe the eclipse is to watch the shadows left on the ground by leaves on a tree. You'll see many small projections corresponding to the uncovered area of the sun. Along the path of greatest eclipse at the time of maximum obscuration, you'll see rings. Otherwise, you'll see crescents.