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Kongar

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  • What is your philosophy of upgrading to the 13 pro?

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  • My 13 is a couple of years old now, but it’s still trucking along just fine. My top three complaints were battery life, the trackpad, and sub optimal speakers - all addressed with the bottom chassis kit. When the battery needs replacing or when the trackpad holding bracket bends/deforms again - I’ll buy the bottom kit and move everything into that. Then someday I’ll go for a new monitor and main board etc. But not now.

  • Windows Update is a torture chamber for seldom-used PCs

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  • On Linux, when you update, it downloads the latest thing and installs it. 10 minutes tops. On arch you gotta watch it a bit more, but you signed up for that.

    On windows it updates almost as frequently as Linux. Except it takes much longer to update. A new install can sit there churning for more than a half hour. Why? Didn’t I just download the latest iso? Even the incremental ones are painful. It also does this sequential crap where it updates, reboots, and then updates again. (Sometimes even a third time). Then you’ve got the bugs. I don’t think there’s been a single windows update in over a year that just went smoothly. I’ve run across two that flat out refused to install (blocking further updating), and one that broke things.

    Windows update is bad enough for a regular use case. It’s downright painful if you haven’t booted windows in a while (think dual boot setups) where you have to pay this update tax just because you switched to windows to do that one thing.

    The author is not being whiny, they are 100% correct.

  • is it a stupid idea to become a Physician Assistant if you're a Registered Nurse, tired of it and 46 years old?

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  • I’m not a nurse, but I’m married to one. She’s been doing it for 30 years, always a floor nurse on a busy floor (trauma, med surg, etc.). She loves the one in a million patients where they need help, appreciate the help, their families are nice and thankful, and she gets to help that person recover and get better. Makes up for the million other shitty things that happen.

    She’s often thought about the pa thing, but never did it for a few reasons. 1) she likes being a nurse, and a pa isn’t nursing 2) job opportunity/need as you mentioned 3) she’s watched me climb the corporate ladder and she appreciates the simplicity of being an individual contributor. 4) she thinks pas ultimately lose their nursing skills and she doesn’t want that.

    Anyways, the point of this novel is that we’ve moved around a bit and she’s learned that there is always a job available for her as a floor nurse, and that if “the grind” is too much - IT’S USUALLY THE FLOOR. Go somewhere else and it changes drastically. Hospital administration, managers, co workers - they all make or break the experience. Her toughest job was also her favorite because of her boss and co workers, one of her easiest sucked because of her boss and coworkers. So nothing wrong with the pa path (it’s never too late for anything), but don’t forget to look at your other nursing options - maybe there’s another floor or hospital that’s more of a fit for you.

    Or just ignore me because I’m not a nurse and don’t really know what I’m talking about. I’m just parroting what I’ve heard my wife say. Good luck!

  • PC shuts itself off after a few minutes

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  • 100% agree. Even if we’re wrong and it’s NOT a cpu cooling issue, you need to eliminate this as the next step in your troubleshooting.

    Take the cooler off the cpu, clean off the thermal paste, apply new paste, reinstall. Check the manual, make sure you’ve installed the cooler correctly (orientation, correct brackets, etc). If you’re using an aio, make sure your radiator is higher than your cpu (so bubbles can’t get stuck in your pump).

    Use a monitoring program to check your temps, run it through a stress test. Bios takes no load, booting into an OS does. That’s why it works in bios and fails when you start your OS.

  • Data centers are creating ‘heat islands’ and warming the land around them by up to 16 degrees | CNN

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  • Years ago, I was driving through NY city-ish. We pulled over in a rest area and I saw a sign about turning your engine off. I thought it was the stupidest thing I had ever seen, as did many other people apparently as their cars were idling. Then I got out of my car. I was wrong. The heat was insane. I couldn’t wrap my little head around it. I started doing the engineer math thing because it didn’t make sense.

    Doesn’t surprise me at all these massive data centers are creating little heat domes. The cars were bad enough, and they are a fraction of the energy.

  • Nier Automata

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  • The crazy part is the true beauty of this game doesn’t reveal itself until such a long time. 3 hours in - literally nothing has happened yet. Keep playing, don’t stop even if you think you’ve seen it all - you haven’t.

  • Nier Automata

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  • 100% this. Intentionally being cryptic here - even if you think you “get it” after two, you are wrong and know nothing John Snow. Keep playing…

  • What are some things that can be done with [large number] million dollars?

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  • I meant retiring and not having a retirement job. I worded that badly - sorry. I know lots of people who are “retired” but still work a part time gig because they can’t afford the things they want in retirement. Which to me, isn’t “retired”.

  • What are some things that can be done with [large number] million dollars?

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  • This. 5 million is the new 1 million. That allows you to own a paid off house and retire at a reasonable age without working. 1million doesn’t do any of the bigger picture social change things you mentioned.

  • Windows 11 is finally getting a movable taskbar

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  • Screw em. Too little too late. I’ve fallen in love with gnome, I don’t even need a taskbar anymore. It’s refreshing when an OS/DE just does its job and gets out of the way.

  • Book recommendations?

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  • Pride and prejudice.

  • Suggest me a book

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  • I’ll throw some of my favorites on the pile in addition to two others I’ve already seen and replied to (Hail Mary and count of monte cristo). Warning - all over the spectrum here

    • lord of the rings
    • Frankenstein - much better than I thought it would be
    • the picture of Dorian Grey - Lord Henry might be the best villain in any book. He’s so scandalous you can’t help but love his ridiculousness.
    • the road to tender hearts
    • a man called ove
    • red rising series
    • titan (biography on rockerfeller, fascinating but long)
    • the intelligent investor

    I have plenty more if you want me to keep going. If any one of those interests you at all, I’m positive you’ll enjoy reading from that list.

  • Suggest me a book

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  • One of my top 5s for sure - maybe even #1. But it’s a long read not suitable for first time/new readers (not saying OP is or isn’t - just don’t know anything about them, and I wouldn’t recommend the count to, say, my teenage daughter who doesn’t read much).

    But ya - if you’re up for it OP, this is a masterpiece of a book.

  • Suggest me a book

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  • Agreed. Great for literally anybody of any tastes. Easy read that’s fun. Bonus is the audiobook is very good as well.

  • Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 Bug That Locks Users Out of the C: Drive

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  • I…. I can’t believe you are defending (or more accurately saying “it’s not that bad”) losing access to the root of your hard drive. It screams incompetence on Miroslop’s part.

  • Please please please help me with a windows install

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  • Making a windows11 bootable flash drive is a mega pain in the balls on anything other than windows. The easiest way to do it is to install ventoy. Then make a bootable ventoy flash drive, download the win11 iso, copy that iso onto the ventoy bootable drive. As long as you’re using a newish version of ventoy, you won’t run into secure boot issues.

    Way way way easier than trying to make a dedicated windows bootable installer.

    Edit: everything applies to win10 as well

  • Considerations For Buying a New Laptop

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  • So I can actually comment on both the 13 and the 16 as I helped my family member build a 16. The 13 is my preference for a daily driver for school or for what I use it for - at work. The 16 is best “docked as a desktop, but I can take my powerhouse on the go”. The 16 is a bit bulky to carry around or use on a plane imo.

    The 13 The chassis is great. Well built, sturdy, super easy to take apart with a single supplied screwdriver, captive bolts, no glue, etc. Really just a dream to work on. Swappable ports are awesome and they work great. Screen and trackpad are nice, not as nice as a MacBook, better than almost all others. Trackpad bracket is a little flimsy, but it’s replaceable. I’ve had zero other issues. As far as getting locked into their ecosystem. I’m not really worried about about that. Yes if they stop making main boards to fit the chassis, then the laptop gets stale, but the it’s a regular laptop…. All the components are standard thingies you can buy anywhere, ram, ssd, WiFi cards, etc. Battery is OK, I wish it lasted a bit longer. Like everything in the laptop, that’s easily replaceable too. I would say it’s about as future proof as you can get in a laptop.

    The 16 The chassis is also great except for the little blank plates on the sides of the trackpad. They work fine, but from a fit and finish standpoint they are lacking. The 16 is otherwise a beautiful machine. Now the gpu- that I believe is subject to “being locked into the framework ecosystem”. Nobody will make a gpu in that form factor except framework. They did just release a 2nd card with a newer gpu in it. Hopefully that continues-so far so good. I both want a 16 and don't. It’s kind of big. Just depends on what your use case is.

    Both beautiful machines that are fantastic to use, and both are “laptops that are like desktops”. There’s other options probably, but I can only compare to thinkpads, Macs, hps, dells, surfaces, asus, and other random windows machines. Never seen a system76. Framework is my favorite, thinkpad is second.

  • Considerations For Buying a New Laptop

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  • I have a framework 13 running fedora and I absolutely love it. Upfront costs are expensive though - long term cost might be more reasonable (or even less) if I upgrade it for years/decades. Bit early to tell. But I do love it. Best laptop I’ve ever had (and I’ve had them all - even a thinkpad)

  • Windows 12 Reportedly Set for Release This Year as a Fully Modular, Subscription-Based, AI-Focused OS

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  • While I hate Microslop as much as the next guy - critical thinking like this is woefully absent on the internet…

  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.world
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    System needs to be updated for steam to work. Advice?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Linux really has come a long way

  • Arch Linux @lemmy.ml
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    CD to flac recommendations?

  • Arch Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Updating Arch the right way - Please critique my practices

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    What happens with optical drives