I have experienced an issue sort of like that in the past, where my computer occasionally won’t do anything other than spin the fans, unless there’s a working connection to a monitor…
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I have experienced an issue sort of like that in the past, where my computer occasionally won’t do anything other than spin the fans, unless there’s a working connection to a monitor…
In Canada, external hard drives of 8-20TB capacity show up every now and then for a rate of C$20/TB (US$14.50) so it won’t take more than 3 months to offset that cost. As a backup, online s3 storage might be reasonable.
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Oof. I’d gotten this game, hoping to avoid a repeat of Ascend but maybe those hopes are going to be dashed.
Someone reupload yuzu, stat!
Well it would be a win-win for India, basically Russia gets paid in customer loyalty store points.
Starcraft 2 has the best control scheme out of all the RTS games that I have played. I wish Age of Empires 2 could put the map on the left, then I would be way better at using it.
Fog of war
Just play Terran and scan, hurr durrrrrrr. Interestingly, AoE2 has a game option of letting everyone see each other by default.
What better place to use this meme:
Flying a VTOL aircraft seems out of reach for me as most are either helicopters or military, but an EVTOL seems like something that could be in reach for me within my lifetime.
Apple’s may start being salty and blame everything on anti-trust from now on.
Why were your beans cold this morning? EU’s DMA.
Why did you get delayed to your event? EU’s DMA.
Why did it rain on the one day you were planning to take a trip? EU’s DMA, of course.
Right now I just play with things at a level that I don’t care if they pop out of existence tomorrow.
If you want to be truly safe (at an individual level, not an institutional level where there’s someone with an interest in fucking your stuff up), you need to make sure things are recoverable unless 3 completely separate things go wrong at the same time (an outage at a remote data centre, your server fails and your local backup fails). Very unlikely for all 3 to happen simultaneously, but 1 is likely to fail and 2 is forseeable, so you can fix it before the 3rd also fails.
Secret child-man? Or conspicuous man-child?
No one person/company/entity can know everything about me.
Well, they could, but the price would be high and I suppose I’d end up dating someone who went through that level of effort to know me anyway. :P
Ok. Just wanted to make sure the info is relevant to you.
If you have any connections to the IT departments of colleges or your work, see when they do overhauls of laptops and if you can be sold any surplus. They will be not amazing but solid performers, tend to have decent compatibility and a good deal usually. Watch out for Chromebooks as they might be a little harder to configure than your standard.
Use your local online classified (craigslist, kijiji, FB marketplace etc.). You will have to arrange pickup and payment 1 to 1, quality may vary but you will get a decent deal. Test for boot up to a login screen at minimum before you buy, and when you get it check that the speakers/headphones, other hardware actually works before installing something new and wondering if it was functional to begin with.
Avoid Bestbuy, Newegg, Amazon as they are way overpriced for what you can get through these other methods. Warranty is the main advantage, but I’d suggest Microcenter or to support your local computer shop if you go this way.
Stuff like ebay may work, quality could be decent but unless you can spot an amazing deal, prices are only a little bit better than buying from a retailer.
What country/geographic region are you in? I have Canada and US specific sites about what sites and stores are good, what are overpriced.
You should be able to get Linux running on most laptops, whether every feature will work (camera, fingerprint sensor, audio, dedicated video card) can be a crapshoot but I’ve heard it’s gotten better on the software side in recent years, just use Ventoy and distrohop until you find one that works. Trying to use a Nvidia laptop graphics card is a huge pain in the ass, I’ll warn you in advance.
Old ThinkPads are a solid choice if you can scrounge one wherever you are.
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3DS with broken off top screen ❌️
1DS ❌️
Newly minted Gameboy Super Advance ✅️
What you don’t understand is that if YouTube manages to get enough people by the balls with their anti-adblocking efforts, the next step is to start jacking up the subscription price year after year to see how much people are willing to pay.
Youtube 2026: you are no longer allowed to skip ahead in videos in order to blend the video and ad “experience” together.
There is a 3rd party tool that gives you some GP functionality even on home edition: PolicyPlus
Yeah the Constitution don’t say anything bout AI so according to the originalists, companies can do anything they want, lol.