Welcome to like… 40-80% of the global food chain my dude. So few things are made ethically.

That’s not how the modern American thinks, we’re so used to things just being always available in mass quantities, we’ve all but forgotten shortages happen and life requires problem solving. Look at what happened with the toliet paper thing, you can easily just use/wash a cloth (obviously not ideal, I’d recommend a bidet first and foremost) but your average American would rather rally at Costco and get into a fist fight over their precious rolls because they can’t comprehend or cope with adaptation, lol.

N…not quite…

Jokes on you, dude is rocking Qubes /s

I think they should at least do an annual “Year of the Linux desktop!” episode!

I wouldn’t say it has anything to do with the financial affluence of the gamer, but I agree with you that the vast vast majority of gamers simply do not care. Like with a lot of things, that same majority would be better off if they did.

Which is why democracy is a failure without education.

You’ve got this! 🔥

Honestly you’re spoiled for choice when it comes to cpus, anything you’re looking at should for the most part “just work” as long as it’s within the last 3-8 generations of cpus (I’d recommend the last 2, since they significantly improved power efficiency and you’re going for a laptop). What you’ll mainly want to consider is linux support for the system devices (wifi, etc, etc) which you can Google per model and robustness of the device (which is slightly subjective, but a 1.1lbs 5mm thick whatever is generally less robust than say a ThinkPad).

It’s abstraction all the way down?!

🙇

Also there’s a decent difference in “I want to spend the entire time disconnected” and “I want to enjoy nature for the day, crack a beer by the fire, and then game a little before tucking in for the night”. All respect to the former, but it’s not for everyone and doesn’t need to be.

Go with solid state. Lighter and it’ll last much longer. https://yoshinopower.com/?srsltid=AfmBOop4ZfctUfN3-XeCk8RO2vJY9pKENf9lsin80O5n-z8iinHKzerR

Ah, that makes sense. The ol’ Google plus gambit.

So the ever moving march towards prudent insanity continues. 😮‍💨 If only these lawmakers were savy enough to use a cellphone, it’d take just a minute on insta/tiktok/whatever to see that they’ve already lost the battle to needlessly suppress sexual expression. Hell, maybe we even dare to focus on safe sex and preventative std transmission measures… Figures Tennessee has such issues with them.

This was only active if you signed up for their local guide program iirc.

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Not to defend nvidia entirely, but there are physical cost savings that used to occur with actual die wafer shrinkage back in the day since process node improvements allowed such a substantial increase in transistor density. Improvements in recent years have been lesser and now they have to use larger and larger dies to increase performance despite the process improvements. This leads to things like the 400w 4090 despite it being significantly more efficient per watt and causes them to get less gpus per silicon wafer since the dies are all industry standardized for the extremely specialized chip manufacturering equipment. Less dies per wafer means higher chip costs by a pretty big factor. That being said they’re certainly… “Proud of their work”.

😎 profit, synergy, enterprise, buzzword.

Doubt it’ll ever catch on with anything except maybe the largest of orgs. You can just procure office task ready machines so cheaply these days, and Windows 365 is like $45/user/month. Far more than what we pay for windows licensing, user Cals, and office licensing all combined.