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Seriously. I would offer a few decades of sysadmin experience and a couple degrees for peanuts and a home for my family if it means fighting against hate and hurt.

I just finished refurbishing an aging G5, and while it has some issues overall it has been an absolute workhorse. Especially given its price, not many laptops hold up to nearly 15,000 hours of power-on time between any major maintenance.

Dell batteries also don’t balloon or catch fire when they die, they fail gracefully and just stop holding charge. Too many popped mac and Razer batteries sitting in the battery bins at my local recycler, but they have a whole shelf of used Dell batteries that have a couple more years in them.

Wow! What are the odds we were both born on the same day?

I can confirm, they have been doing this for months

Yeah, Razer does their own thing and they do it poorly. I do a lot of laptop and PC repair, and I take some pretty tough jobs. Razer jobs range from insane to impossible and will just break again a month later. They have awful cooling, their screens are completely glued, their hinges fail constantly, their motherboards popcorn if you try to replace components on them, and almost every one routes the screws on the motherboard through the power plane somewhere on the board, making even a hair of an overtightened screw cause a fried board.

Did I mention the ribbon cables? They make them out of the most fragile material and use way more than is necessary. They are worse than a New 3DS as far as how easy it is to break both the ribbons and sockets.

They are so bad. I will take a recent Alienware or a new MacBook any day of the week.

Razer is one of the very few devices that I refuse to attempt a repair on. Their build quality is awful and their engineers don’t understand how to make motherboards that don’t actually destroy themselves. Add some industrial glue to the screens and worse ribbon cable use than a Mac and you get a recipe for an overpriced, slow, unrepairable mess.

Spend your money on anything else, Razer is garbage.

Right side, starting in the middle and angling upwards as you read left to right.

And a port for the PS Vita! There was a decompilation effort a few years back, it has since been made portable enough to run on most anything with a framebuffer.

Honestly, with the price of lego and their own deviation from the “Lego” aesthetic in recent years I wouldn’t fault anyone for sticking with the clones. I have used quite a few of the “compatible” sets from China and other than the logo on top of the studs they are identical. Even the colors are on point these days.

Even better in the microwave

New instructions and only having to deal with one codebase are big, but there are some fringe reasons regarding security that I could see also being a factor. A 32-bit processor means something like a thunderbird athlon on the high end, maybe an old Pentium 4. Single core and pushing 30 in the best cases. You need an operating system that supports that chip, and there really is only so much you can do to make that setup even work in 2025.

It’s more a matter of why support that? Trying to run steam on a single core Athlon from 2000 would be painfully slow, to the point of being unusable. You couldn’t reasonably even keep steam running with a game, it would hog too much CPU. It’s possible to try it if you have an ancient tower laying around (don’t use your real steam account online with something like windows XP, it will be compromised in seconds connecting to the internet).

People with systems like that are going to need to use gog installers or use period accurate methods to install games. 32-bit only processors were already on the chopping block when steam came out, they really can’t handle modern steam. It would be a bit unreasonable to expect them to add a separate version for those chips, especially with the vulnerable operating systems they require going online being an issue, so we are left with a vestigial feature of 32-bit support for no great reason.

It really just makes more sense to cut it than keep it for the sake of novelty. There is some liability in keeping it, as well as technical overhead.

Sorry for the ramble.

As an American, you are doing God’s work. The only thing that gets through to these assholes is money.

I also have this issue on Summit, though the lines don’t show up in saved photos. I assumed it was a bug in the image rendering libraries.

I always used “Ss-Quill” in class, professionally I usually refer to the database as a series of pained grunts and whimpers

You know those displays at gas stations sitting on top of the nicotine displays? Those all have sim cards and data. The gas stations don’t handle advertising, the nicotine companies do.

I have a Phillips evnia ultrawide that has accumulated over 6000 hours SOT over the last year and a half, over 3k of that was playing RuneScape 3. You have to turn the brightness down to 10% and be on a flat grey screen to even see the beginning of burn in. It’s really a non issue, even in “torture” scenarios like getting 200m mining xp on the screen full time.

They aren’t expensive at all when it’s at scale. Industrial control uses similar setups all over the place. Even if it wasn’t specifically cellular, they could easily use one of the many mesh technologies to connect to another TV within a mile or so that does have an internet connection.

Well, most people know what it takes to fill their tanks, so it isn’t an excessive amount, it’s like $5 extra and you go back for the change. Realistically 90% of people use cards and the ones that use cash put an amount that fits in the tank. I’m not going to put $20 in the tank if $15 puts it right at full, I’ll put $10 in and not worry about it.

They copied and pasted the same black box. Each page is literally the same nothing burger, you can open it in a text editor and see the repeating chunks. The interesting part is that page is identical across files. They didn’t even bother redacting individual parts, just replaced the whole thing.

It’s a misunderstanding of osmosis. It’s safe to drink distilled in small amounts, but if you are drinking it to hydrate you can quickly run into the issue where it pulls the salts out of your cells and really mess with muscle and organ function. It takes a fair bit to cause issues, a glass here and there is fine, but you can’t drink lots of it the same reason we use saline for IV drips instead of distilled water.