I would favour an AMD Ryzen 7000 based laptop. Much better battery life than Intel and better graphics performance.

Lenovo ThinkPad T and P series are excellent build quality.

Asus Zenbooks or Expertbooks with OLED screens are also excellent. Displays are on par, or superior to Macbooks. Excellent colour accuracy.

Make sure you get something with at least 16GB of Ram, or 32GB if available.

Everything is improved if you put a cross guard on it.

DRM only affects paying customers. It plays no role in effectively combatting piracy.

Only good service and good pricing is effective against piracy.

Apartheid, of a sort yes.

Genocide, not even close.

Oppression and occupational yes

Correct, Hershey’s is not for human consumption.

It was the worst thing about my holiday in America. The chocolate is universally terrible. Way too sweet, rough texture and chemical taste to the dairy content (something in the milk used).

You are what you eat after all.

Artists are now fighting back against AI stealing their works

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/03/1210208164/new-tools-help-artists-fight-ai-by-directly-disrupting-the-systems#:~:text=Music Of 2023-,Glaze%2C Kudurru and Nightshade help artists fight back against AI,a dog is a cat.

I got great battery life improvements with TLP.

I also found that AMD laptops do a lot better on idle power draw. Getting 12 hours of video playback out of my Asus Zenbook 14 compared to 10 hours on windows.

Another vote for the framework. They are the only manufacturer actively supporting Windows and Linux.

People who grow up believing that when the innocent die, they go to heaven.

They simply don’t value human life the way rational people do.

Is this footage from Syrian again?

Love it!

If you should shout “happy holidays” in front of that house, it all just catches fire instantly.

Thoughts and prayers for the family loving under such dangerous circumstances.

Half of India tech industry still runs on windows 7.

And the choices of others.

Not to mention that he changed economic policy to ensure the boomer generation will dominate all following generations.

I mean, in South Africa we have a famously corrupt and incompetent government. And even we significantly outperformed the US in deaths per 100k people.

It does help to have publicly funded healthcare.

The sluggishness you experienced has a lot to do with Ubuntu itself. At its base it’s a very good OS, but canonical is messing up on the details.

Ubuntu derivatives like Linux Mint or PopOS have spent a lot of time resolving this. They perform very well for most and have got excellent stability because their software stack is a little older.

For gaming, fedora is probably the base OS that most prefer at the moment. It’s at a good balance point of stability the latest tech.

The other option if you want to go more bleeding edge is Manjaro, but expect some things to break on occasion.

To clarify, I changed my bookmark to be the subscription page

My YouTube homepage has been set to the subscriptions tab for 7 years now.