It’s probably MUCH harder than do a GDPR (or equivalent) take out request then deletion request

I cry my American freedom tears. Free to have no privacy laws to protect me or give me any legal recourse.

Not to throw stones, because I live in the USA, but it really sucks to learn that Chile just elected a climate change denier, too.

Yeah, that’s my sentiment as well. I don’t want to pay to have the display repaired, because I already have a laptop. Finding this thing was not an invitation for me to spend money on it :P

So I hooked it up to a spare monitor and fiddled around with it, some. Used Crossover to install Steam and Mortal Kombat and played a few rounds. Worked well!

Probably the only reason I found it is the busted display 😅. I guess to someone that either meant it didn’t work at all, or they just stopped caring and didn’t want to deal with it anymore.

Maybe one day I’ll find a matching macbook pro where the computer doesn’t work but the display does. And then I’ll mix-and-match them and have one fully working laptop and one fully broken one 😀

It was in an e-waste bin. I didn’t purchase it. I just picked it out of a pile of electronics.

It seems what happens is the laptop still expects a built-in display to output to unless the magnets/hinges are closed, in which case it will switch to clamshell mode and only display on the external monitor.

but what sucks about that is in clamshell mode the built in keyboard/mouse become unusable, but those components are fully functional. Maybe there is a way to trick it to only output to an external display, never try to output to the broken laptop screen, and keep the kb+mouse operational…

soldered/glued :(

My one fear is if I try to install Asahi but get stuck on an install step that requires me to be able see what’s on the main laptop display, which would not be possible

Most blessed outcome. Lucky!

llvmpipe means you only have software graphics rendering. You got rid of the graphics driver, so that’s not in usage. As for intel graphics, perhaps you need to ensure that you have mesa-dri-drivers installed? Or maybe somehow the intel kernel module has been blacklisted?

Since you said non-technical I definitely recommend Python. It is easy to install and easy to get going with. It is feature ful. It is generous. You can do really interesting things without sweating details like pointers and segfaults.

If this was a technically minded crowd, especially students like in high school and in person, I would have said C

The proliferation of electron programs is what happens when you have a decade of annoying idiots saying “unused memory is wasted memory,” hand-in-hand with lazy developers or unscrupulous managers who are externalizing their development costs onto everybody else by writing inefficient programs that waste more and more of our compute and RAM, which necessitates the rest of us having to buy even better hardware to keep up.

idk why OP didn’t just link the original article. https://www.mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-altman-s-dirty-dram-deal

and numerous further sources at the bottom of that piece e.g. https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/openais-stargate-project-to-consume-up-to-40-percent-of-global-dram-output-inks-deal-with-samsung-and-sk-hynix-to-the-tune-of-up-to-900-000-wafers-per-month

How did you determine it was the SSD failing and not another component?

And in retrospect it’s too bad more people didn’t steal from Microsoft so that it failed as a business.

I’ve been a full time Linux user at home for over six years. It’s why my username is what it is :)

I can’t say it’s flawless. Sometimes you get what you pay for. But in most every significant way it is the better choice.

YES! Same!!!

I have to use Windows 11 for work. Maybe this is because of CrowdStrike or something, I don’t know, but I often encounter a problem where the main section of explorer, where you can actually click files and stuff, just breaks. That entire region becomes unclickable and unusable, even though the rest of the Explorer window (like the icons on the top part) all still work. So I just have to close the window and then reopen Explorer, re-navigate back to where I was, and proceed from where I left off.

Never, in the decades I’ve been using computers, have I ever encountered something as stupid as this with this amount of regularity. Windows 11 is a uniquely bad OS compared to every competitor option, including prior versions of Windows.

No matter how “cool” it is its primary purpose, first and foremost, is to generate spam. A trillion dollar industry, effectively, in the service of spamming our search results, inboxes, text messages, science journals, homework assignments, and so much more

As for btrfs, I don’t use it because I’m an adult.

This is a strange statement, because it’s now a mature fs that works. It’s even the default fs of the OS you’re trying to use. But for the sake of experimentation, I can appreciate wanting to try something off the beaten path. And I generally agree about Oracle and, specifically, Larry Ellison.