What kind of distortion? So you have a picture?

Is it blurry? Are there digital artifacts randomly? Does it just blank out then come back?

I’ve always preferred a smaller screen. 13” isn’t really that much smaller unless you’re blind.

You can’t hold a gaming laptop in your hands (and actually use it)

Of course a larger device will cost less/provide better performance. You’re paying a premium for the handheld formfactor. Just like how with a gaming laptop you’re paying a premium vs a 50+ pound desktop.

Water is never lost.

The problem is getting, filtering, and purifying the water so it can be used again.

Mac OS is my favorite Linux distro.

since I like using it for movement.

At least the basic movement from that video could easily be done with a regular joystick, it’s just the developer chose to not implement it.

If your reaction time is worse than 2 seconds I question if you should be driving. Driving is not a responsibility you should take lightly.

Honk doesn’t mean go, honk means pay attention.

W11 is full of AI integration, always-on data collection, and other no-sell bloatware

Windows 10 is the exact same BS, but 10% less in your face AI. Have people really been frog boiled this badly?

It is an option to play around. But for audio production you really don’t want to be trying to use a VM unless you’re fiddling with USB passthrough (which is a pain). Audio latency on Windows is bad enough, adding Linux’s on top is awful.

Are you sure? I know the successor the T420 supports disabling the graphics. I dont think my 410 ever had it though. It’s under display settings in the bios. Not sure about dell though, they might not have had it.

https://download.lenovo.com/bsco/index.html#/textsimulator/ThinkPad W530 (2447,2436,2438,2439,2441,2449,2463)

Lenovo’s bios simulator sadly only goes as old as the T530. But it’s config > display > graphics device.

I had truck nuts on my Outback. They were bright pink.

Replacement? They normally do both face scan and check some sort of ID.

M1 performance with (hopefully) 16 gigs of ram? Yeah that’s the perfect computer for a “normal” person who just wants to browse the web on something other than a phone or tablet.

Honestly I just wish these machines had better display scaling options. I’d really like a “looks like 1080p” (ish) option for when I’m out and about and need to remote desktop into my PC at home for work stuff. Currently I use an el cheapo ThinkPad for that.

Oh trust me, I know pretty quickly when that 3080 turns on and when it turns back off. Hybrid graphics is what I’ve been fiddling with the most.

So far I’ve been playing with Linux on my old work laptop and they’ve been playing together nicely. Almost everything else about the laptop? No. But hey at least graphics works.

Why not just fix the algorithm so you don’t get spammed with those posts? Limit posts from one community to 1 or 2 per page so it’s at least spread out.

It’s kind of a growing pain issue honestly. As lemmy grows and more people post in more communities it shouldn’t be as much of a problem. I don’t know if self regulation like that will really affect the serial posters though.

That hasn’t worked on any (good) machine for the last 20 years. Especially now in the EFI age any important settings like that are stored in nvram.

Do you use tasker or any automation app? Anything time based will trigger the clock.

For a laptop that old it’s not worth the money. Anything “good” is going to be at least 10 years old just sitting in a box rotting.

In 3 years I haven’t had a single attempted connection that wasn’t me. Once you get to the ephemeral ports nobody is scanning that high.

I’m not saying run no security or something. Just nobody wants to scan all 65k ports. They’re looking for easy targets.