[-] eltimablo@kbin.social 82 points 1 month ago

It's the final laptop in the same way that Theseus's boat was the last one he ever bought. You can replace bits piecemeal, but at some point you'll end up with enough leftovers for a whole new laptop.

That said, I have an Intel one and it's a fantastic laptop. Also, not only are the motherboards capable of running on their own outside the laptop, but they've partnered with Cooler Master to make little cases for them so you can turn old mobos into mini PCs.

[-] eltimablo@kbin.social 48 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That's great and all, but for those of us that do speak English and are expecting certain grammatical norms, eschewing those norms, regardless of the validity of the reason, makes it significantly harder for us to parse.

The question mark is not a rare piece of punctuation, either. It's used in China. It's used in Japan. It's used in Vietnamese, every Romance language I've ever encountered, and every Germanic language I've ever encountered. I'm not saying I understand all those languages, but I can certainly recognize when someone's asking a question in one because the question mark remains the same.

This is a piss-poor excuse and reeks of the attitude of one who's never encountered a language that doesn't use the Latin Alphabet even in passing. Oh yeah, by the way, it's called the Latin Alphabet, not the English Alphabet.

[-] eltimablo@kbin.social 31 points 2 months ago

Yeah but what expectation could they have had that they'd need to communicate with Bethesda in the first place? The game's been "complete" for several years at this point, and IIRC Skyrim Special Edition (the Skyrim version of what happened here) was both announced in advance and released as a separate game, so mods that weren't getting updates could still function. In light of that, it seems reasonable for the developer to expect advance warning at least in the form of a press release prior to the update being made available. Should they have reached out every week asking whether Bethesda had any plans to update a 10-year-old game?

[-] eltimablo@kbin.social 29 points 8 months ago

Apple might as well be a fashion company at this point.

[-] eltimablo@kbin.social 39 points 9 months ago

Spoken like someone who clearly hasn't been practicing. Get gud.

[-] eltimablo@kbin.social 36 points 9 months ago

Just because the Winnie the Pooh meme isn't actually racist doesn't mean I'm not going to call it racist in a pathetic attempt to establish a fake moral high ground over people who have arguments I can't counter

There, I fixed it for you.

[-] eltimablo@kbin.social 140 points 9 months ago

Stop advertising the site as a place to go when you get banned from reddit for being too insufferable even for them.

[-] eltimablo@kbin.social 68 points 10 months ago

hold the world hostage for unlimited money you can move through a swiss bank.

Easy there, Homelander

[-] eltimablo@kbin.social 79 points 10 months ago

Driver code might expose some underlying secret sauce they're using in the hardware. That's the justification they always used to give, at any rate. At this point, though, it's probably some code they've inherited from an acquisition that has a bunch of legal encumbrance stopping it from being open sources.

[-] eltimablo@kbin.social 82 points 10 months ago

Right? Even if it weren't, this only calculates how many crabs it would take to store Doom, not run it.

[-] eltimablo@kbin.social 189 points 10 months ago

I've had beef with LTT since his series of videos where he tried to use Linux as a daily driver while making absolutely zero effort to understand any of the differences between it and Windows, then proceeded to whine about how it's not Windows. The part where he broke his system after it explicitly warned him he was about to break it and asked for rather thorough confirmation that he wanted to do so was where I stopped watching him for good.

There's being ignorant and then there's being stupid. I fault nobody for being ignorant of how something works when they first encounter it. I do, however, fault them when they demand changes be made without actually understanding the implications of those changes.

[-] eltimablo@kbin.social 34 points 11 months ago

E-ink technology uses some pretty fascinating chemistry to display more natural paper-like on-screen textures as opposed to regular digital Word documents and PDFs.

I have a feeling this author might just be fucking stupid.

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