not the poster but gen 1 framework 13s has a cmos battery issue that when fully depleted, the laptop will not boot from off state because of how the recharge circuit was wired to the battery.

so if your laptop was in sleep for an extremely extended period of time, you wouldnt be able to turn it on without either replacing the cmos battery or soldering a single wire to fix it.

as a person who uses a framework 16, and deals with returned lease laptops as a job, people are overstating how “durable” thinkpads are.

of course image of course is a joke, but thinkpads advatage isnt necessarily durability, but how cheap replacement parts are because of how many are leased and eventually returned.

frameworks friction is cost and availability, but strength is ease of repair. lenovos is part availability and cost.

the mistake was assuming the upper limit ended at 100

its because people dont know what they want. Linux has the problem that people want different things, ao theres dozens of distros to choose from.

windows is an example of giving little choice, so people begrudgingly “upgrades” because they ultimately dont really know what they want.

tldr, linux can be choice paralysis. single os is like being forced to drink soylent and only soylent, its got what you need but you might not like it.

i typically imagine the mess of qualcomm drivers is part of the reason why its hard. regardless of the OS, be it windows, android and in this case, linux, driver support has generally been spotty for snapdragon products.

im curious on what the upstream stuff valve is pushing with its steam frame, as its of the few known companies actually paying for development for arm on linux. the device isnt out yet, but should be opened up within the quarter supposedly.

but you dont know the values to which they are to br able to ask a question involving it which is the point. youre put in a situation where you dont know everything. there are things you assume the question giver assumes else questions are never answerable. they arent given to you as a gotcha situation, especially in the context as a programming question.

you get to the point where no question can ever be asaked to you because you believe in the manipulation of the question over to the point that you’re intentionally looking for ways to break the question rather than assuming you and the question giver has the same assumption given the question circumstance.

If you go out and look for dumb things like that, there is basically no question in the universe thats answerable.

Do you question if gravity and friction exist if someone asks you how fast something is moving? and what values they are?

if you want to avoid that problem, you would just add the step at the very start: have all the bulbs in off and wait a bit for all the bulbs to cool off if you needed to be sure.

of course, nothing says you can’t but programming (and engineering) is not just solving the problem, but solving the problem efficiently.

one who lacks optimization knowledge would run into situations like the rockstar employee who originally wrote the parser for GTAO that made it take over 5 minutes to load GTAO, till someone else rewrote the parser in order to get people loaded in quicker. It’s basically the weed out for the devs people complain about when something uses way more resources than it needs to.

if anyoen is curous on the answer, you flip one and wait till you think a light bulb gets warm enough from ambient that youd notice. you then turn that off and turn another on.

if light = on, second switch you hit

if light = off && bulb = warm, it was the first switch

else switch 3

it can eventually turn into one if the project gets a lot of support. the problem is the current intention is to help occulus rift devs port their games to steam, and VR is a reletively niche audience, so its not going to get the development time it needs if it wants to explode.

tangently related, I do see a future where valve goes the route of game native and opens up steam officially on android, but its not quite there at the moment.

its in the review, in the super tux kart benchmark section. under vulkan, their FPS is functionally the same. Under OpenGL, Cachy is somehow significantly faster

I think this cant be some odd anomaly, because that gap is huge

well that and cachys opengl performance is like 1.5x the other distros in super tux kart, so if you had some legacy games, its run better in cachy probably but raw modern hardware would have likely made it trivial. the one exception i could imagine where opengl performance probably matters is heavily modded java minecraft

the wine part, its more or less based on the end goal of the software. traditional game emulation is software that is used to try to mimic the hardware in question. Wine focuses on trying to be windows, rather than the physical PC hardware itself, so the type of thing youre trying to emulate is fundamentally different.

emulation in general is functionally a compatibility layer. Wine exists on the highest level of compatibility layer because its not trying to rewrite what the hardware is necessary doing (as both the hardware is the same)

Wine is the same level as Teknoparrot is (teknoparrot is compatibility layer for arcade maches that use X86 based pcs for hardware), vs MAME, which emulates non x86 based arcade machines.

it gets mega pendantic because of how closely emulation and compatibility layers are intertwined, but they arent two overlapping circles. a compatibility can use emulation but doesn’t require it.

I just like defining the difference between the two simply by the goal. emulation targets machine to then get to software, where compatibility layers target the software directly. and will target hardware only when necessary.

for the heavy games, itll likely not change much.

however with light loads and low clock gaming (e.g 2d clocks playing like dead cells or something) the cpu governor on linux is far more efficient. Microsoft is pushing that game to game optimization on the handheld makers when it should really be them doing it.

it hasnt changed much but at least theres a possible fear a lease might be held out slightly longer this cycle due to tariffs.

Business computers are definitely longer leases than mobile phones i can tell you that. consumers upgrade more often than businesses do.

well not the businesses that are built around apple devices.

social life is kinda fucked when you have night shift, you resort to somethign to pass the time

i have a coworker who worked at an airport, and while people who worked nightshift made more money, their increased chance of recreational drug use and lack of vitamin d from sunlight did not do wonders for their aging.

im aware, but its moreso part of the reason publisher is gone because most people just shoehorn the content into word regardless. its religious refusal to change that basically ended publisher. word being older is part of the reason why many people refused yo change their workflow, even though it ultimately would have benefited them more in the long run had they done so.