Someone else suggested that it’s a common regional term, and (apparently) not my region. I’ll give her the benefit of the doubt that it’s common and nonsexual in her area. However, around here I would’ve avoided terms and phrases associated with porn/fetish.

As for how it could’ve been written, she had already very clearly established her gender, so she could’ve just said student. But that can also be reasonably inferred from her age, and isn’t really relevant to the rest of the point she was making. The entire clause could’ve been dropped. Start the sentence with “Like most teenagers”.

I presume her goal was to highlight her age and lack of obligations. That would make sense given the following details of her and her peers spending so much time on these apps. The more natural flow (again, my local dialect) would be “15-year-old high-school student”, or possibly “15-year-old girl in high school”. But these are still unnecessary.

4th paragraph:

I’m a 15-year-old schoolgirl and like most teenagers I spend a fair portion of my spare time on social media, often scrolling through short-form videos on apps such as Instagram or TikTok

There are a number of EVs that make all sorts of fake engine sounds, both to the interior and exterior. The feature is surprisingly popular.

Is it just me, or does it feel out of place that the author described herself as “a 15-year-old schoolgirl”? I don’t think I’ve ever even heard that term outside of porn, and you wouldn’t describe her counterparts as a “schoolboy”.

Many, many years ago (20-ish?) I spent a full weekend trying to get Gentoo working on an even older PC. I wasn’t completely new to Linux (having installed and used a bit of Mandrake and Fedora Core), but I was certainly no expert.

I spent the entire weekend trying and failing to get a usable system, reinstalling numerous times with different options, installing countless packages, and following innumerable guides on troubleshooting. I never had a system even close to as usable as Fedora was out of the box.

Still, I consider that weekend a complete success. I learned more about Linux in that one weekend than at any point since. Everything after that has been little tidbits needed for the task at hand, without much of the base foundational understanding. Failing with Gentoo taught me so much.

A credit card the account is with visa, tho it may be managed by your bank thanks to partnerships and bank end integration. Depending on the circumstances you actually will be directed by your bank to contact visa or who ever directly or be forwarded by your bank.

Do you have a source on this? Because it directly contradicts EVERYTHING I have ever experienced. Visa is a payment processor, but more as a middleman. I’ve even been redirected (through automated systems) back to my bank when making a purchase using a Visa card. Any disputes are handled by bank. You can’t get a Visa card without going through a bank. My debit card has a MC logo and can be used as such, but it’s also my ATM card.

Your point about debit vs credit is valid, though possibly more convoluted than needed. On credit, it’s someone else’s money in limbo, until the bill is paid.

I just want to add that the crash will take down the entire economy, not just AI and tech companies.

Simply by subtracting AI companies from the equation, the US is already in a pretty substantial recession. The process of them crashing out will make that even worse.

Why would they start with the harder one? Samsung is much better funded, and therefore will be a much more difficult case.

And no, it does not matter that Samsung did it first.

This is basically the exact scenario that led me to detail that I was only talking about consumer gear. Server gear is a very different beast, with a variety of tradeoffs that I didn’t want to get into. For instance, I’m assuming you can only use Registered RAM.

The biggest problem with DDR3 is that the last (consumer) boards/CPUs that could use it are really, REALLY old. 5th-gen Intel or AM3 AMD. Which means you’re looking at a full decade old, at the newest. These boards also probably can’t do more than 32GB.

Now, I suppose if you only need 32GB RAM and a CPU that’s pathetic by modern standards, then this is a viable path. But that’s going to be a very small group of people.

Something tells me the demographics don’t overlap very much. I’m betting that most people going to a club already have and use a Facebook account. Unless there’s a massive cultural difference among young adults in Australia.

FWIW, Office (or more accurately, everything that was part of Office) was renamed Microsoft 365 years ago, in 2020. That was long before the AI insanity.

You’re asking the wrong question. You should be asking “who is trying to use Windows without any Internet access at all?”

Which is definitely some people/situations. It’s not the standard user-centric use case that Microsoft expects, but it does exist.

There’s still the same key problem - the memory chips have a very low available supply. Increasing the supply requires new semiconductor fabs to be built, which takes a very long time.

Outside of that, I guess it could be described as right-to-repair. If you have a bad stick of RAM, it’s likely that some or all of the chips are still good and could be reused.

Asus is a significant ODM, supplying boards for brands like HP. I’m not sure what lines/models they make today, but they are a lot bigger than just their consumer lines.

Are they from China/Chinese clients? A number of these are modified to never seed, so they always show as having 0%.

Thinkpads are enterprise machines, so they aren’t really designed for gaming. But there’s a lot of overlap with things like graphics rendering, so they do have some options.

The T series is the standard corporate line (usually T14) for the average office worker. These sometimes have a dGPU available. You’d probably want something in the P line, but those are much more expensive.

Much like the consumer lines from other brands, it’s a lot of cost-cutting. Plastic everything, hinges that break prematurely, limited power filtering, that sort of thing.

One that frequently pops up (although I’m not familiar with that particular model) is poor cooling. Heat kills many gaming laptops, either directly or indirectly. That can mean needing more fans/bigger vents, being unable to clean them, or liquid metal thermal paste that leaks and shorts out.

Don’t just consider the brand. You have to consider the line/model.

Lenovo’s consumer lines (Ideapad, Legion, and others) are all absolute garbage, and you shouldn’t consider them for even a second. But their enterprise line (Thinkpad) is generally very, very good. The main problem is that they’re expensive.

Asus is strictly consumer-grade. They do not have an enterprise line. Their build quality is among the best you can find in consumer-grade, but enterprise-grade is always higher quality than consumer-grade.

I would never leave an OEM load on it, so privacy isn’t much of a concern for me. I suspect they’re both pretty bad in this regard.

The very first line:

A loss leader (also leader) is a pricing strategy where a product is sold at a price below its market cost to stimulate other sales of more profitable goods or services.

So the answer to their question is “Yes, a loss leader needs to lead to something”. I have no idea why you think they have no idea what they’re talking about.