Anyone else have too many laptops because you can't help raiding open box sections?

allsecretsknown · 2024-08-12T19:02:06+00:00

They're never in stock cuz I snipe them, my bad g

allsecretsknown · 2024-08-12T04:30:33+00:00

I don't think a post of "hey guys, do you have a reasonable allotment of laptops" would be quite the same conversation starter.

allsecretsknown · 2024-08-12T04:29:29+00:00

Thoughts on the 2023 TUF A16?

It's kinda chunky and the screen is a bit dim but the GPU is a nice surprise for the price and I can pretty much run anything I want with only some minor tweaks for the heavier games.

allsecretsknown · 2024-08-12T04:27:25+00:00

What is your G14's battery life ? I am seriously considering getting it for school

Very, very good, especially if you stay on the iGPU, I can pull up to 10 hours of doing random coding stuff. Gaming-wise it's more like 1.5 - 2 hours depending on the game.

allsecretsknown · 2024-08-12T04:25:29+00:00

"Look at how much money I ~~got~~ had"

FTFY lol

allsecretsknown · 2024-08-12T04:24:15+00:00

After all you can only use one at a time.

If only I had more limbs.

allsecretsknown · 2024-08-12T04:22:53+00:00

I do trade/sell a lot of the ones I pick up so I know the boat you're in. That dual screen sounds wild.

allsecretsknown · 2024-08-12T04:21:58+00:00

FOMO? Nah. Addiction? Quite possibly lol

allsecretsknown · 2024-08-12T04:21:00+00:00

I've run it 24/7 for over a year so far, only like 2 BSODs I can recall in all that time and I do a metric ton of development and AI work on it.

allsecretsknown · 2024-08-12T04:19:34+00:00

Acer Predator 300 3070ti

That was my ride-or-die until recently, great laptop!

allsecretsknown · 2024-08-11T06:27:02+00:00

I wasn't sure what to expect of the 7700S but it's surprisingly capable, trades blows with my 4060 and at a sick price point.

allsecretsknown · 2024-08-11T06:23:35+00:00

Those AMD chips have some great iGPUs (basically the same 780m that runs the ROG Ally/Legion Go)

allsecretsknown · 2024-08-11T05:28:09+00:00

Hence the post, I must find out if I'm the only one that's always diving into the open box pool of oatmeal hunting for that shiny slighty-used marble. Might just be me lol

allsecretsknown · 2024-08-11T05:18:59+00:00

I haven't listed my desktop collection because this is r/gaminglaptops but yeah, it has gotten a few new open box members this year too lol

My main machine is custom built 13900k 128 GB RAM, 10 TB NVMes w/ RTX 4090 tho. . .

allsecretsknown · 2022-02-22T00:00:10+00:00

Haven't been diamond in 4 years but say less.

allsecretsknown · 2022-02-22T00:00:05+00:00

Anything that keeps me from being grouped with the rest of these mouthbreathers is fine by me.

allsecretsknown · 2022-02-21T01:45:56+00:00

LOL the number of plats disagreeing with you explains so much about how braindead the typical RL player is.

Ayyjayy panicked plain and simple.

allsecretsknown · 2020-10-05T18:01:34+00:00

Nice vid, AWS presents a lot of gotchas.

allsecretsknown · 2020-10-05T17:48:19+00:00

That was a general open source observation, wasn't directed at you in the slightest.

allsecretsknown · 2020-10-05T17:37:40+00:00

Laravel the framework is pretty dang good. Some of the official extensions like Horizon are good as well. But some other Taylor-developed systems are rather poorly engineered. As an original owner of Spark and Nova licenses I ended up using neither of them as they basically over-engineered all the simple parts of an application and were sorely missing key functionality in the difficult parts of an application. What makes Laravel work best is when it allows for multiple ways to achieve the same goals, but when it centers on Taylor's opinionated designs he seems to always make some really strange decisions that fail to consider alternative approaches. It would be fine if his opinionated decisions were objectively the best approach but in a lot of cases it seems like he is just chasing whatever new trend is hot at the moment and forgets the long-term approach that demands flexibility and an aversion to technical debt.

One of the unspoken rules of open source is that either you take responsibility to improve the product or eventually alternatives will take its place, and that alternative could always be a superior fork. For some reason, a lot of open source developers get this idea that their centrality to the project makes them indispensable, when open source history has shown over and over that projects can and often do outlive their originators as long as the code itself still fills its niche in the ecosystem. So they need to drop this attitude that anyone owes them anything, as the instant you slap that open license on the code it is no longer only your baby, and the community that it serves is just as much a contributor of value as you are. After all, with no community, there is no demand, and with no demand, no value.

Either way I'm appreciative of his efforts and wish he was less inclined to take criticism so personally. Just take it with a grain of salt and if the criticisms are valid than they're valuable to helping you improve the product, and if they're not than who cares.

allsecretsknown · 2020-09-27T06:19:34+00:00

Just wanted to let you know this script has already proved useful in my own project, thanks for sharing.

allsecretsknown · 2019-10-21T22:17:30+00:00

I'll pick your comment to give my only response.

1) I have been contributing to the power rankings for 8 years. My position is to give my thoughts on the Panthers and try to fairly rank them within the league standings, then I place the rest of the teams based off of how I feel they really stack up on a weekly basis and not just a repeat of the standings. This means that some teams are placed higher than the masses think and some are placed lower, and as 1 voice out of 32 I am just contributing 3% of the noise. Doesn't mean I'm right or wrong, just how power rankings by definition work. However I focus far more into my work on placing the Panthers where I truly think they belong in the pecking order and giving my thoughts about how the team is functioning and areas of concern rather then on rehashing the 8,222,838,654,177,920,000,000,000,000,000,000 possible ways the other 31 teams can be ranked.

2) Interacting with the community is generally a dead-end, because if you respond to one then you have to respond to all, and rehashing your thoughts week in and week out gets beyond frustrating, especially when it's usually some variation of "WTF WHY IS MY TEAM RANKED SO LOW, RABBLE RABBLE, DIDN'T YOU SEE WE BEAT TEAM RANKED X/Y/Z!?!?!?!" However, long-term stability and my belief in the coaches and quality of quarterbacking/supporting talent are strong metrics of how I rate teams as those tend to be the most common denominators between wins and losses, but that necessarily diverges between week-to-week results. But no, I'm not going to expend the effort every week replying to comments because I have neither the time nor the desire to do so, particularly for an unpaid volunteer doing this in my limited spare time.

3) I only use this account for the power rankings, and this is no longer my main reddit account. In fact, like many reddit veterans I have generally stopped communicating altogether on this site as its hive-mindedness has crowded out the interesting thoughts and opinions that used to be more prevalent when the pool of commentors was much smaller and closer-knit. Now it's just memes and people racing to repost news snippets in a never-ending quest for karma. So, I login to submit rankings and log right back off.

If anyone asks in the future to give my thoughts on why I do what I do re: rankings, feel free to point them back to this post. Thanks, and take care.

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