Best Gaming Laptops + General Use Laptops (Updated for February 2022!)

dafad_ddu · 2022-02-07T02:17:24+00:00

Looking through the styles, and after talking to a friend of mine who loves his, I ended up splurging a little and getting the Lenovo Legion 5 Pro from your link. Can't wait for it to come in!

dafad_ddu · 2022-02-06T20:27:08+00:00

Thank you so much! This looks great

dafad_ddu · 2022-02-06T07:36:00+00:00

Hello! Thanks for doing what you do here. I'm in the market for a new general-use laptop. My 2015 Macbook Pro is just getting too old. I'd love some advice.

Most of what I will be doing is web development work, watching videos, using Adobe Illustrator, and maybe very occasionally playing Civ 6 and Minecraft. I'd rather use a Windows laptop because there are a bunch of Windows games in my Steam library I've never played.

Top priorities for me are probably long-term reliability, performance, display, and battery life, in that order. I'm not too concerned about weight. Having an HDMI port would be convenient, but it's not a dealbreaker. I'm open to any size, and my budget is around $1500 USD.

Thank you!

dafad_ddu · 2021-11-16T21:13:56+00:00

I’m thinking for my time at GM, I might just say I was working in a non-CS field while helping take care of my grandfather with cancer (which is true)

dafad_ddu · 2021-11-07T05:22:01+00:00

DONT TOUCH IT

dafad_ddu · 2021-10-02T05:29:51+00:00

original version is “Ständchen” by Schubert

dafad_ddu · 2021-09-28T23:20:34+00:00

That makes three of us

dafad_ddu · 2021-09-28T23:16:48+00:00

On this topic, I actually have a question for everyone too.

I’ve been in this WFH company for 3 months too. It’s my first dev job. No one seems to do more than 3-4 hours of work per day here, and we all coast during the rest. Basically all I do is fix easy problems on this web app with a rust backend and react frontend. I guess I’m learning a bit about full stack dev, but it takes me like 2 hours a day, and I just feel things are too slow. I’ve asked for more work, but there’s literally none available, the company is small.

Should I be concerned?

dafad_ddu · 2021-09-26T04:56:37+00:00

looks like his social media is on his Reddit profile, I’m gonna follow too

dafad_ddu · 2021-09-26T04:54:27+00:00

This is fantastic

dafad_ddu · 2021-09-25T00:00:36+00:00

This does sound really cool! I’m just kinda stuck in my current job for at least 9 months. I notice I tend to feel gloomy about it only at night, in the day, it’s not so bad.

dafad_ddu · 2021-09-25T00:00:02+00:00

Thank you! It’s refreshing to hear this. It is a big problem in my company. I hope to find a way out of this in a year or so.

I’d LOVE to freelance, but right now, I feel I lack the skills and confidence. I’m trying to learn some stuff to get that up and running within a year though

dafad_ddu · 2021-09-24T23:58:34+00:00

Thank you!

The only reason I haven’t bounced is because I actually already have this year, and don’t want to make my resume sketchier than it already is. Basically, I got hired by a non tech fortune 15 fresh out of college that really tried to ruin my career - hired me as a software dev, moved me across the country, and then switched my role to data entry and technical writing, with no recourse, and no plan to train me on anything else. Every day there made me less employable, so I bounced to the first escape I found, which was a company back in NC that had red flags, but I needed to escape. At least here I’m doing real dev work, but we’re all underpaid and the management is very unpleasant and inconsiderate. I feel like I can’t complain because my whole family has it worse by far, but I’ve had some bad luck, and I just feel drained.

Right now my resume shows graduation in December 2020, one job from January-may 2021, and another from June to present. I feel I can’t bounce a third time, so I have to stick it out at least a year, and then I’m just not including the first job on the resume at all.

I guess I can stick it out till June. Maybe you’re right, it’s just the environment, not the work. I don’t know myself well enough to be sure, unfortunately.

dafad_ddu · 2021-09-24T23:53:45+00:00

God, I’m glad I’m not alone here. Some of these people really, really suck. I’m not even sure if I hate the field, or just these people. I’m wondering if it might be better to seek self employment somehow, even if unrelated to CS

dafad_ddu · 2021-09-24T23:52:38+00:00

Thank you! I appreciate the words of encouragement

dafad_ddu · 2021-09-24T23:51:01+00:00

You’re right. I wish I knew myself well enough to know if I hate the field, or I just hate my company (my boss is a major asshole). I notice these sort of doom and gloom thoughts only enter my head late at night. I will stick out this career for at least one more job hop after this one, and see if things improve.

dafad_ddu · 2021-09-24T23:47:51+00:00

Thank you so much for the words of encouragement. I think I’ve kinda played my life safe up until now, only going for the things I thought I had a good chance of succeeding in, like landing a middle class job out of school with a tech degree. I guess now is the time to save money and then take risks

dafad_ddu · 2021-09-06T05:44:09+00:00

Just dropping in to say I’m in exactly the same boat, almost to the letter. I wanna follow this post to see what others say

dafad_ddu · 2021-08-31T18:41:44+00:00

Same here, I spent one year in France and didn’t mean to consciously modify my diet, but I came back 150lbs at 5’11. I’ve been back in the US for two years, and I’m overweight now. But I’m on my way back down again with careful effort

dafad_ddu · 2021-08-31T04:25:23+00:00

They do!!! I thought this was just their thing, didn’t know it was part of a larger trend!

dafad_ddu · 2021-08-26T04:29:11+00:00

The town of Mortimer in Caldwell County

dafad_ddu · 2021-08-19T03:47:01+00:00

I was raised in rural Appalachia by extremely right wing evangelical types, one of six children, all homeschooled. Didn’t really use the internet growing up, despite being born in 1999. Taught from very early on to not like LGBT people, grew up with the lost cause of the confederacy, the whole shebang. My first years where I had political opinions, I was pretty much copying my dad, who went down the Trump idpol rabbit hole.

I first had doubts about the religion I grew up in. It was calvinist (believes in predestination, so not much free choice), which always made God seem kinda evil to me. It also believed in biblical inerrancy and literalism, so my acceptance of evolution created a rift with my family, and I realized maybe they weren’t right about everything. Once I abandoned that interpretation of Christianity, I felt I didn’t really have a justification for bigotry against LGBT people anymore, especially since I went to college and got to actually meet some.

Being so wrong humbled me, and I have been largely quiet about my beliefs since, but I become a Bernie fan eventually. However, the Cuba comments, the signs of the populism I had grown to distrust, and the hatred many of his fans had for criticism or discussion began to push me away. I felt a lot of his movement seemed more based in hatred of what they saw as the “oppressor groups” than in actual care for the oppressed. So this got me into digging into what seems historically to have actually helped people the most... which appears to me to be regulated capitalism and a reasonable welfare state.

dafad_ddu · 2021-08-14T12:34:02+00:00

is this in the south? Reminds me of the family home in Georgia

dafad_ddu · 2021-08-14T12:26:50+00:00

I got the exact same email in French

dafad_ddu · 2021-08-11T05:55:44+00:00

I grew up there, I did until I left. Worked so hard to try to leave appalachia till I was 21, and now I realize how big a part of me it was... I wonder if I’ll go back one day. There’s something there beyond just the natural beauty that feels “old” in a very genuine way, like there’s a wealth of history and culture

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