Yep, the only reason I made money this year is because I invested continuously… I’ll find something stable soon.

He can’t even hire people that can do it let alone do any of it himself.

And this surprised nobody

I’m feeling really bad about this. I’m an avid global index fund investor (if I can even call myself that by the sums I put in) but seeing this shit unfold…I haven’t put anything in this month and I’ll be looking to invest in bonds or something.

Putting my money into funds that are even partially invested into this suddenly looks really, really unsafe, even if these funds are generally really good long term.

thanks!

Yea I’m an Ubuntu user myself and had no issues with it, really. I’m definitely considering that one and will try it as well if Mint fails.

I definitely won’t put Arch on his PC haha. Even I’m not knowledgeable enough for that one.

If I do try Ubuntu, is there a reason I should go with 22.04 instead of 24? I’m on 22.04 at work right now.

OP don’t get scared of the BIOS fan tuning UI if you have one. Your PC will throttle before it damages itself.

And yes, I stand by fancontrol. It’s a great utility, even on Windows. It’s much better than the proprietary crap like Armoury Crate from Asus especially.

Yea no frameworks up for grabs around here and even still, they would be expensive as hell.

And yup. The TUF line is definitely the worst from Asus. Had no idea when I bought it.

Also edited some more in there - what a lightning reply my dude haha.

Oh yea I’d definitely do that but he needs to carry it around Germany where he works in construction. Not really viable sadly, otherwise he’d get a desktop for sure. I’m very much against laptops myself.

I have the laptop I mentioned for work and I dread it. I also had a FX505DT and hated that one too. The bloody chassis cracked on that one, man, in like 5 or 6 places. I thought I damaged it while opening it at first…then pieces kept coming off by themselves for no reason. Never in my life am I ever buying a laptop marketed for gaming. That was some of the worst build quality I’ve ever seen in my whole life, and it’s marketed as being tough (“TUF”)…

I still can’t believe I sold that FX505DT piece of shit to a poor sod. The keyboard was dying, the chassis was destroyed, the thing ran on fans full blast all the time because the cooling was trash and the fan curve was ridiculous…told the guy everything upfront and he still bought it for 300 euro…I wouldn’t have touched that thing with a 10 meter pole.

I actually already have a motherboard, CPU, CPU cooler, and 2 GPU’s that I could use. I’d definitely do that if I could. but alas, it is what it is. I’d love to build him a PC at some point though, it’s very fun. I never bought a prebuilt and never will.

I tried finding something that’s comparably repairable to a desktop and the best I could find was this laptop that I linked. In the meantime I found out Thinkpads are fucking amazing.

Right? I want to see how long it takes dad to realize lol. I’ll get it running nicely for him so he doesn’t need to fiddle with anything.

Yea here’s hoping they work. I’ve dealt with drivers for a 1650 before but good point, I should check driver support for that GPU.

I see. So whereas on Windows the drivers are separate, on Linux they’re pretty much always packaged together, I take it?

I guess then the only problems can arise from proprietary stuff that NEED proprietary drivers. In the case of that Thinkbook I mentioned, their camera is a sort of custom model. If you don’t get the official Windows-only driver, it uses the “basic” driver (whatever that means), and that one can’t create video higher than 480p with massive smearing :-/

Man you just linked a whole gold mine, thanks, those are a lot of resources

And yea, if you code / script without using AI you have my damn full respect because I’m 100% tired of dealing with bugs written by AI.

hmm sure that’s probably the best way to know. I’ll try a few and check if any have issues, thanks man

Also, this is the laptop I’m looking at exactly https://www.pchouse.ro/lenovo-thinkpad-t470p-14-2k-i7-7820hq-8gb-ddr4-256gb-ssd-nvme-geforce-940mx-windows-optional-laptop-refurbished-grad-a.html#specificatii-tehnice

Aww she developed her first thought

We’re still paying attention to what this moron says?

Ah, Windows 10, my beloved, look how your younger brother is acting a fool

I mean… They kinda distributed it themselves /s

repeatedly expressed its commitment to breaking down the barriers of government censorship

That was only and will only ever be done when it’s in favor of whatever government reigns over the company.

Displaying the Tiananmen Square Massacre is in line with the USA gov. Displaying Israeli crimes is not.

Don’t be naive. Youtube and Google don’t give half a shit to go against censorship.