Cenzorrll

joined 2 years ago
[–] Cenzorrll@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Framework was and is certainly high on my list, but I'd rather go in a used direction and I do have concerns about them sponsoring hyprland and omarchy, and I haven't seen anything about them backing down on their statements.

If I were to categorize what I consider most important as far as upgradability goes, it would be the following:

  1. Storage - Drives fail, full stop. It needs to be replaceable. Storage can also be a backup to ram, so if that isn't replaceable something needs to be. My experience with a 32gb nonreplaceable storage laptop has soured my entirely on non-replaceable storage.

  2. Ram - Ram can fail and as technology proceeds, ram tends to be the most expendable resource as technology progresses. So as time goes on, what you started with just won't cut it in the future. I don't see this changing anytime soon, so it either needs to be upgradable or way overboard in capacity and to a lesser degree speed.

  3. Secondary components (wifi, bluetooth, etc.) - I honestly don't mind replacing these components with a usb dongle, but it sure would be nice to replace the internal components and leave USB ports free.

  4. Graphics - I'm not a laptop gamer, I don't see it as the place for it. While there are some processes that would benefit from a better GPU, I feel like mobile CPUs cover that aspect very well.

  5. CPU/motherboard - A replaceable cpu is a rarity to find in a laptop, and processing power/watt doesn't seem to have a huge difference within generations which is probably my most important factor in a laptop. Sockets change so often and chipsets aren't often compatible with newer chips that I don't much see the point if the motherboard isn't replaceable. It would be cool to have a replaceable motherboard, but considering how fine I am with older technology, I think even those would still be outdated by the time I start considering that anyway.

[–] Cenzorrll@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Cenzorrll@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

"Here's a recorder."

-My step kid's music teacher on the last day of school

[–] Cenzorrll@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Similarly, if you go back even further into console and PC gaming history you can find some game that use what, looking back, would be considered terrible control layout and/or gameplay mechanics.

You can just say resident evil.

[–] Cenzorrll@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

What do you mean? Just air every thing, and if you get to the end, livestream it.

[–] Cenzorrll@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Shouldn't they though? They are already competing at a disadvantage. If selling Bluetooth headphones allows them to continue making phones as sustainably as possible, shouldn't they do so instead of going out of business or compromising elsewhere?

[–] Cenzorrll@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (8 children)

How does removing the headphone jack change their position?

[–] Cenzorrll@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

No, read the article

[–] Cenzorrll@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Yeah. Wait til you learn that New Mexico is older than Mexico.

[–] Cenzorrll@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

My stepkid had one of these exact ones. He pulled it out and the outside sleeve detached.

The internals on these are incredibly unsafe. There's a very high chance you can rip it out, and the tines will remain plugged in, with nothing to grab onto to remove them. The tines themselves are only pinched internally by a weak little bit of metal to connect to the rest of it, not even soldered.

[–] Cenzorrll@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I've been forced to start calling these wall dongles by my fiancé, I made sure that in order to accept this terminology that wall warts with the cord attached are now dingle-dongles, and the ones with a cord before the electronics are dangle-dongles.

[–] Cenzorrll@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I wouldn't want any other person to touch my keyboard. I blame the lack of accessible cleaning supplies and the fact that if anyone higher up sees me not staring at my screen with a hand on the keyboard they'll think I'm lazy and not working. Which is true, but they don't need to be thinking that.

 

Hi sysadmins, I am thinking of doing a pretty drastic career change. I have 10+ years of experience in chemistry doing bioanalysis and a few years repairing breath alcohol analyzers. I have always considered messing around with electronics, networking, and computers/servers as a hobby and have been using various Linux distros as my main os for almost 20 years.

I have come to see my specialty in my line of work as a dead end. I'm pretty damn good at my job but I feel like automation is going to be taking over very soon, and I'm not that good that I think I'll be in the top 10% that get to stick around and run the automations when the robots finally take over. So I'm considering doing a career change to IT/sysadmin.

What I'd like to know is what should I learn how to do to see if I'll even like moving down this path? What can I set up at home, break, then fix that would give me an idea as to what the sysadmin life is really like?

I'm pretty sure I haven't ever really done any sysadmin type work with my home setups, seeing as I build and set up services I want for myself and at the level I'm willing to put up with. For the most part I can be handed something already implemented and work within that space to keep it going and adjust it to what I want it to do or fit my set up. I can usually find my way through log files and error codes to figure out what the problem is and duckduckgo my way to a fix.

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