NVME is not a port. M.2 is a port, and there’s lots of versions of it. You can’t put an NVME SSD into all of them.

You can, but that doesn’t mean you will. Unless you’re raw dogging your pc fully exposed on the internet there’s no way for malware to go to you, you have to go to it.

and last I looked, many no longer have physical buttons.

Physical TrackPoint buttons have been back for over a decade at this point. The *40 series dropped them, but the *50/*41 brought them back. The latest two P1s got rid of them, but those sure aint what OP is goin for.

New low end laptops have always sucked. I hope more people become open to used and refurbished devices. A 3 year old used business machine kicks the shit out of a new similarly priced POS. New low end laptops are born e waste.

You’re lucky if it’s a 5600g. They still make systems with CPUs based on zen 2. (insert AMDs CPU decoder)

And sometimes even 10/100 ethernet cards assuming they still have an ethernet port.

I can’t imagine how many 1/10ths of a penny Dell was saving on those POS.

I ran some benchmarks the other day and I was amazed by just how powerful and efficient the M4 Max in my Mac Studio is vs the 9800x3d in my desktop. Not only did the entire system use 2/3 the power of the 9800, while scoring well over 1.5x more. And then the system goes to idle and uses less than 10 watts. Less than just the 9800 at idle.

They’re incredible feats of engineering, only hampered by apples fuck ass software.

3/4 posts surrounding this one were asking for help with Linux.

Also the linux community on lemmy is big enough go have its own dedicated help/support communities.

Chronic case of fanboyism. I don’t like it so therefore there’s nothing good about it.

What in the world is “sluggish” on that computer that woouldn’t be on 10? The new bloated notepad? That doesn’t even take a quarter of a second to load on my current laptop?

Nothing is worse than waiting for sudo to time out. I forget how long it would take, but it always feels like ages.

Whenever you do major updates you should reboot. Most patches can be live applied, but not all.

Usually your package manager will mention if there’s a need to reboot when it’s done. Once a week to once a month is fine for the most part. Kinda depends on the updates that are coming out and how often you do them.

I love how any time there’s bugs in software people just assume it’s AI.

Trust me, they’re perfectly capable of being incompetent au natural.

Even if they were handed the info on a golden platter it would take years for them to actually build up production. And by the time they’ve built it up it will be old tech.

Crucial never sold GDDR RAM.

These aren’t massive companies. They’re startups. (and some branches inside of massive companies acting like startups)

Amazon has some no name brands for not insane money. But used you can get actual flir stuff for pretty cheap. Especially those phone attachment cameras. Just know as “technology progresses” they might stop working with new OS versions.

Is yours an i5 model or an i7? Mine is an i5 and it’s worthless as soon as it gets hot. But my friend got an i7 model and it’s amazing what a fan can do. Just having any cooling makes a huge difference.

There’s 3D models for clips to strap a fan to the back of the machine and let me tell ya, it does wonders. They should have never shipped one of these without a fan. They thankfully fixed that on the SP8 and up, but that doesn’t help us much.

For massive companies space is as costly as the price of the storage. Especially these AI companies don’t care much about the price of things.