Here’s the interesting thing. I found out any kind of computer use during an interview was “cheeting” during my prior job search. For years, I’d been taking notes during interviews, like names, key points about the job, answers to my questions. Somewhere along the way, that became a problem. I also used to search for things occasionally.

Silly me, I thought searching, researching, taking notes, etc., was part of the job and an indication of smart working. Now, we are expected to recall the smallest syntax detail from memory - On the spot, while being watched and timed, in a high stakes interaction.

This is less like someone looking for paid help for a business and more like a sadistic exercise in prisoner torture.

Now, imagine having ADHD and going through that.

Very nice reply, and I’m rather stunned a nonprofit did this… unless it’s one of those giant, well funded ones like NFL or Red Cross.

Understood. My issue is more abstract. It would be nice if some who don’t need it also put their support behind the concept for altruistic reasons and because they realize it could affect them when their hardware is no longer cutting edge.

As I said in my comment, I was not implying you personally had any such attitude. I was commenting on my feelings about how that statement could be interpreted and the general attitude behind it is part of what I have in the past actually experienced when I advocated for the value of building for a less l33t configuration. The attitude by at least some and perhaps many is a weaponization of the attitude I saw in your comment (again, not seeking to imply you actually had that attitude).

When enough people just don’t care because the problem does not directly affect them, the problem is not addressed because not enough people care. That is what I was attempting to say. Thus, I apologize for the appearance of saying you personally had a “bad” attitude on this. It’s a common attitude and is a contributing factor to many real-world serious social problems, and I just don’t like it because of consequences on a larger scale.

I don’t like the implied sociopathy in that assessment. It smacks of "i got mine, fuck you ". I’m not implying that is your attitude, just pointing out that people who don’t care because it does not affect them overlap the population that is all for fascism because they are in the “in” group and aren’t (obviously) harmed.

Building to work well on low-end systems does not take from high-end systems unless the devs don’t take advantage of it when it is available.even then, they are not worse off. They just don’t get something better than “the pleebs” are getting.

You know, I was rather surprised how well my 2016 Lenovo gaming laptop handled BG3. That has I think a GT640? Don’t exactly remember the device names, but they stopped updating drivers for it in 2020.

1. Future proofing
2. GenAI. Models take space, and what doesn’t fit in your 16Gb VRAM works in your much slower regular RAM.
3. Multitasking media generation, software builds, movie rips, serious number crunching, or anything else you can imagine, etc.
4. One or more virtual machines running for various needs.

I um… Just got my son hooked on the demo…it was supposed to be me.

This is what I did for a while. As your addiction takes root and you add more and more mods to get cooler and cooler effects, you will eventually start playing on your gaming PC, and uninformed spectators will think you are playing a game that just came out with sick animations. I suggest you include Serana dialog add-on and Touched by Dibella.

I’ll review again. Last time I looked was 3 to 4 years ago.

I’m sticking with Proton for now. If Switzerland ends up being no different than the 5 eyes, I’ll be more intent on finding a replacement.

Well, what unlockable options are there? I certainly accept that I might not be keyed into everything. Fairphone is the only one i recall.

Please, don’t just snark. Enlighten me.

Well, take a look at LineageOS and the associated microg edition. They work on dozens of devices. I’ve been flashing ROM’s since the first Android phone and I’m still using my Pixel 2XL, degoogled. I still have my Moto X 2013 {with custim, now unusable ROM} because it is like a river rock. It feels great to hold.

Google phones have always been unlockable - primarily for the benefit of developers.

Calyx also offers a degoogled Android, focused on privacy like Graphene.

If one wants a phone and own it, Google is the only sure way right now.

Tutonota is German, which is part of the already full on surveilance state.