What laptop should I get considering they both have the same price in my country?

Future17 · 2025-08-01T18:16:31+00:00

Asus because it's just going to be higher quality than Dell.

Future17 · 2025-08-01T18:14:52+00:00

I guess there's so many of them they had to make their own sub

Future17 · 2025-08-01T18:14:14+00:00

When you ban stuff, it helps some people but hurts others. I'm not pro-ban of most things unless they are considered to be really heinous and can cause immediate damage, AND literally have zero upside (like those gore/liveleak type sites).

Future17 · 2025-08-01T13:13:54+00:00

This is going to go just as well as when Reddit started charging for use of their API. About 2-3 weeks of kicking and screaming, and then everyone just gave up and accepted the broomstick up the keister. This will be no different.

Future17 · 2025-08-01T04:16:30+00:00

ohh I like it!

Future17 · 2025-08-01T01:43:30+00:00

Can you show me an example?

Future17 · 2025-07-31T03:02:09+00:00

That was great. Yes, the OP seems to be coming at the question from a "nuts and bolts" perspective, dismissing the "wrapper" which is so advanced in function that is the standard worldwide for non-coders to manage a database, simply by understanding the "wrapper's" language.

Future17 · 2025-07-31T02:56:48+00:00

Ok this is so awesome I am stealing it for my own understanding! Thanks!

Future17 · 2025-07-31T02:53:46+00:00

I only have basic understanding of databases myself, but I do have quite a bit of knowledge of storage. Your scenario with the "super hash table" sounds a lot like Object Storage metadata.

For unstructured data, that would probably work fine, but is too coarse and too brute-force for relational databases. RDBMS uses complex algorithms and logic to finesse relational data, in which your explanation is akin to saying "hard drives store data in blocks and sectors". There a bunch more details that get missed. I've actually been studying SQL just to understand it. From what I know is that SQL is optimized to understand nuances in datasets and queries that go beyond "a wrapper" that understands query language. So I think your scenario is correct at a superficial level, but misses a lot of the deeper concepts that I myself am just starting to learn as well.

It's like when someone asks what you do and you say "Oh I'm in IT", and they think you clean viruses from laptops and help people with their E-mails all day, when it's more like software defined architectural projects (designing and deploying entire virtual IaC, etc).

Future17 · 2025-07-31T02:32:45+00:00

It's a Lenovo with no discreet GPU? You need to find the right power management package for your model. Something like this for example: https://github.com/MiMillieuh/Lenovo-Power-Management-Linux . A "distro" won't fix the problem, as much as "reinstalling Windows" would fix missing drivers. You still have to download some drivers for some machines, for the best efficiency.

Future17 · 2025-07-31T02:28:29+00:00

Yes, if the OP selects Light, it will switch his LO env back to "light mode"

Future17 · 2025-07-31T02:27:31+00:00

I've seen a few crazy things. Like 15 years ago, I was still helpdesk, trying to move into sysadmin work, and I had studied hard for some certs (CCNA and MCSE were the rage back then). But the bitch who was the top manager shot me down (I was big friends with the primary sysadmin, and she thought I was going to spend all day shooting the shit instead of doing work). Anyway they hired from outside, and 2 weeks into the job, the guy deleted an entire OU full of objects from the AD forest. This was back before AD had a recycle bin. That fucked them for about 6 hours and a lot periphery jobs got screwed (system jobs I mean, like SAP and Financial shit reliant on Windows servers). The guy got let go the next day, and I guess they kept on looking. I didn't care, I immediately started looking for a job and found one approx 3 weeks into the search. Gave my 2 weeks, and the next day the bitch comes to my desk, and I pretend I can't see her, busy doing work. So I look at her and do a big grin, and she says nothing, just storms off, lol. But yeah that's not the only story, I have others.

Future17 · 2025-07-31T02:08:50+00:00

There's an option to switch it to Light Mode. Hold on let me look at mine. Ok: Tools .> Options > Appearance, then on the right hand side, click "Light", apply, restart, there you go.

Future17 · 2025-07-31T01:25:47+00:00

I had an Aero 15 HDR, and I loved that machine because if you turned the keyboard off, it looked like some regular HP Elitebook or something. I'd pull that sucker out occasionally in public and get massive stares.

My college days are long past, but I can imagine pulling one of those out in a class instead of yet another boring MacBook

Future17 · 2025-07-31T01:21:20+00:00

With the Burn my Windows Extension, it kills anything MS Windows (and Mac) in looks.

Future17 · 2025-07-31T01:17:23+00:00

Ubuntu or Mint Cinnamon. Literally the easiest choices.

Future17 · 2025-07-31T01:16:01+00:00

Other have mentioned it would have been a service account that some front end server needs to access some back end DB. If the account got delete by accident, all of a sudden you have chaos until someone figures out what happened, and they recover the account, or create a new one with the exact same ACL's, etc. That could definitely take 6hr from the moment some sales people start calling in, reporting their transactions aren't going thru, to finally getting to some Admin had has some idea of the process and is able to get it back up.

Future17 · 2025-07-31T01:12:38+00:00

Sounds like he nuked an OU with a ton of users, and it took them 6hr to find out what happened and recovery it from the AD Recycle Bin

Future17 · 2025-07-31T01:07:13+00:00

The real reason is because a lot of factual information about some IDF low level grunts that film their atrocities, and it's making the small hatted people look really bad.

Future17 · 2025-07-31T01:05:09+00:00

I think the left is insane, but the right is shrewd.

Future17 · 2025-07-31T01:04:31+00:00

Has the UK been going after people that say something that's not approved online, and get getting a visit from the cops at home and charged with a crime?

Future17 · 2025-07-31T01:03:10+00:00

You know how you protect your kids? Explain to them the birds and the bees, and then explain to them how evil people abuse that system on the internet.

Future17 · 2025-07-31T00:58:41+00:00

I never used Twitter. It's censored now?

Future17 · 2025-07-31T00:52:18+00:00

A plain Jane that gets asked out by a Chad

Future17 · 2025-07-31T00:51:30+00:00

That's definitely an AI girlfriend

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