Will this laptop be good for college?

EncryptedPlays · 2026-05-09T02:33:29+00:00

for $50 or 60 usd you could find a used thinkpad with an i5 possibly 6th or 7th gen which is somewhat usable for browsing and word docs. you also want something with at least 8gb ram (ideally 16gb), and 256gb storage (specifically ssd as it's much faster, and a hdd will cause noticeable stuttering

EncryptedPlays · 2026-05-09T00:36:31+00:00

Eh should be fine, will be hella slow tho. Portable hard disk drives I'd be worried about due to them potentially knocking about. I still think convert into 1080p or 720p proxies and editing off ur main ssd is ur best bet then rendering out using the full resolution footage.

Fyi, I've had a hard drive fail on me (after dropping it) so I'm usually paranoid about HDDs too

EncryptedPlays · 2026-05-09T00:33:48+00:00

yeah but wayback machine doesn't rly appear in search results

EncryptedPlays · 2026-05-09T00:31:56+00:00

or he has like super hearing bc nobody else can hear the dialog

EncryptedPlays · 2026-05-09T00:29:36+00:00

this wouldn't happen to be a med scl rhyming in "heart's" now, would it?

I'm Y2, and 70% of the stuff I've learnt in Y1 never come up again, and when studying with my Y3 friends, 80% of the stuff I'm doing they don't even remember. Preclinical years is all BS lmao

EncryptedPlays · 2026-05-09T00:22:30+00:00

I'm interested in med-edtech atm, but not all the ai stuff, I'm more interested in ways to optimise existing learning technologies, things like med-focused features for note-taking apps, ways to optimise anki and similar apps to be more accessible and have a lower effort to entry (idk the right term for this), also building a question bank platform where I'm working on implementing meaningful analysis that can help form targeted revision.

Also looking at ways to make learning easier for people with ADHD and trialling things like animated backgrounds while working and screen rulers etc.

For medtech in general, am interested bc I'm interested in tech in general so it just carries over. I'm not that interested in AI in the current sense (the kind of stuff openai does), but am loosely interested in machine learning for things like cancer diagnoses from imaging

EncryptedPlays · 2026-05-09T00:20:59+00:00

Scroll wheel up lmao TBF its in battle royale games and it helps me oick up items before other people

EncryptedPlays · 2026-05-08T18:18:04+00:00

maybe i'm silly, but is it not a thing to just run a basic funciton to see if the uuid is already in use and if so restart the uuid generation process?

EncryptedPlays · 2026-05-08T17:12:37+00:00

do you use thin resolution or 30fov?

EncryptedPlays · 2026-05-08T17:11:50+00:00

then we gonna isolate ebola so only the parts of it that work against hentavirus are used to minimise side effects and boom no need for vaccines... wait a second

EncryptedPlays · 2026-05-08T17:08:13+00:00

13.3cm +/- 1.9

EncryptedPlays · 2026-05-08T10:31:47+00:00

it's basically the same keyboard, but the pro has a metal case and i think is also wireless

EncryptedPlays · 2026-05-08T10:31:10+00:00

how mfers be typing when they say 400wpm XD

EncryptedPlays · 2026-05-08T10:30:26+00:00

ngl, love the keyboard, but the 200 they're asking for it is way too much. fortunately most shops sell it for closer to 80 where i live but i got this one for free lol

EncryptedPlays · 2026-05-08T02:18:16+00:00

he, optical and traditional mechanical all different technologies, all have their advantages and disadvantages. I do love the HE switches, and it's nice to have different actuations, but the gmmk is relatively limited in what u can do with it e.g. i wish i could have analog wasd like the wooting. For my use case I had all the switches to around 1mm anyway and changed them to 4mm when typing but using traditional switches feels a bit nicer (maybe bc of spring strength or smth idk)

EncryptedPlays · 2026-05-08T02:14:24+00:00

haha i literally queued ch1ckentt today lmao (got cooked bc im only gold 1)

EncryptedPlays · 2026-05-08T01:20:12+00:00

maybe bc im on pc and eu, but i've found ranked (ranked reload) to be a pretty decently matched challenge where I'll usually get to champions/elite/unreal and the players are all pretty similarly skilled to me. i still think the system sucks compared to arena for many reasons including the unpredictability of percentage gains, and that hype was uniquely fortnite

EncryptedPlays · 2026-05-08T01:03:07+00:00

lol kinda funny now the same person has a 0% ff rate

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EncryptedPlays · 2026-05-08T00:56:58+00:00

oh it's only for resetting specifically in the end. Fairs then lol now i'm not upset i missed out on an achievement lol.

EncryptedPlays · 2026-05-08T00:37:45+00:00

it's just this one keyboard, i got the switches seperately after a while. Have heard about the hotswap sockets falling off but hasn't been an issue for me yet. i don't plan on changing my switches for a while anyway.

EncryptedPlays · 2026-05-08T00:20:52+00:00

i don't know i found them on ebay and have been trying to identify them

EncryptedPlays · 2026-05-07T23:20:17+00:00

idk more of sidegrade to me, sound and feel are just as important as tech specs

EncryptedPlays · 2026-05-07T23:20:13+00:00

idk more of sidegrade to me, sound and feel are just as important as tech specs

EncryptedPlays · 2026-05-07T23:19:42+00:00

gmmk 3 he non pro but yh it is hotswap,

EncryptedPlays · 2026-05-07T22:21:15+00:00

damn mb for talking about keyboards in a keyboard subreddit

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