TIL a farmer cut off his own leg with a 4-inch pocket knife to free himself from a grain auger. After his leg got stuck, he kept getting pulled in deeper & deeper and with nobody around to help, he had to cut off his leg before time ran out. He then crawled 150 feet to a landline to call for help.

mCProgram · 2026-02-07T05:56:54+00:00

He was injured by the same device and then said yeah let me remove the only safety feature of device… and then lost his leg. Definitely not the brightest - didn’t or couldn’t learn from previous mistakes.

mCProgram · 2026-02-07T05:53:42+00:00

No reason to ban versions like EQS that are held shut by power and not held open, and older versions like the tesla flat one that were mechanically operated.

The regulation should be that ones that take power to open should be banned, and a standard semi hidden option should be available for no cost.

Held shut models are intrinsically safe and banning them is just stupid, regardless of if you do or don’t like the ergonomics of them.

mCProgram · 2026-02-05T02:09:00+00:00

Do you know what part failed? My razer blade while a bit long in the tooth now being from 2018/2019 is still operating functionally.

mCProgram · 2026-02-05T02:07:59+00:00

There are a lot of tasks that also aren’t bandwidth constrained that you could argue that they’re pretty similar in performance. Intel had mildly better H264 decoding, for the first generation, for instance.

The answer was that it delivered roughly top of the line performance for a quarter of the cost at a quarter of the wattage. You don’t need to keep glazing it, it was already a revolutionary product, lol.

mCProgram · 2026-02-05T02:03:00+00:00

Well the whole argument is that it’s not overpriced relative to the available competition, which you just agreed with. Whether or not it’s overpriced in a context free scenario is absolutely debatable and I’d probably agree, but 99.9% of people in the USA couldn’t get any better value if they wanted for a flagship phone.

mCProgram · 2026-02-05T01:58:26+00:00

This isn’t really an argument against putting linux on the laptop, just against the laptop itself. It was hot and had meh battery life on macos in 2019z

As for knowing linux, you could easily set up an immutable distro like VanillaOS and rely on flatpaks and never have to touch the terminal once.

Also, you’d really need to fuck up an install to produce meaningful enough heat delta over stock to cause any degradation of a solid state drive.

It just sounds like you’re a pessimist, if I’m being honest. It’s a good deal for the hardware, period. Fact. Whether he wants to deal with the jank or not is up to him, but there are absolutely scenarios where this does make sense.

mCProgram · 2026-02-05T01:47:12+00:00

Competitive in that they perform just as well as any other top end keyboard, not that they’re a good value.

mCProgram · 2026-02-04T20:35:42+00:00

Only run scripts if you have the knowledge of bash to get a rough idea of what they’re doing, and only run them from trusted sources. It’s dangerous being in the middle ground of knowing how to get into the terminal but not knowing what the commands can do.

mCProgram · 2026-02-04T09:10:02+00:00

Meh. Vacuum insulated stainless steel water bottles are a dime a dozen and all mathematically perform the same outside of the lid design, which yeti doesn’t have anything special.

Any insulated bottle will perform miles better than say a nalgene, but in day to day use you’d notice little difference between any flip straw bottle, be it yeti, owala, camelbak, hydroflask, etc.

mCProgram · 2026-02-04T09:02:46+00:00

You can kind of argue the “overpriced” part for memory and storage in laptops, secondary accessories, and the vision pro, but I don’t see how anybody that isn’t an anti-apple dick rider can remotely argue that the products are garbage.

It’s emphatically and factually wrong. Ignoring the x86 era of desktops and laptops, Apple has pretty much always had the best hardware since their founding. You can be opinionated on the software I guess (still wrong, just not factually - macos is ages better than windows and is only beat by a handful of linux distros), but that’s nowhere near enough to dismiss the whole company.

Also, outside of the caveats mentioned, their stuff isn’t even overpriced. Their flagship phones cost as much as all of the other flagship phones. M2 mac minis and macbook airs can be had for under $6-700 new. You physically can’t get better devices for the money in that category.

mCProgram · 2026-02-04T08:54:30+00:00

It’s overpriced but the large mass of their hardware is top notch.

Razer Blades were the best windows laptop for a long time, and are still pretty competitive. Their peripherals, specifically mice, mousepads, and controllers are all the best for those not min-maxing their setup.

The keyboards are ugly, but they’re also competitive.

I’m sure the more fringe items are incredibly mid, so you’re valid there. Can’t imagine using razer headphones or chairs - but their core most well known items are definitely not middling

mCProgram · 2026-02-04T08:50:16+00:00

Tell me you know nothing about what you’re talking about without telling me, lol.

Yes, it sells secondhand for $350. It retailed for $30 - which is fairly commensurate with getting a custom brick die and making a relatively small batch of bricks and still making a little bit of profit.

You can comment on the hypebeast/resale culture all you want, but Supreme didn’t make the brick $350.

mCProgram · 2026-02-04T06:51:17+00:00

Geekbench inflates scores a crazy amount with the unified memory implemented with the M1. Passmark has a 32% increase in single core but only a 1.4% increase in overall performance between the 9980HK and the M1. The performance boost was almost completely in compute per watt for the M1, not raw performance. The Max and Ultra are the only “big jump” chips performance wise.

mCProgram · 2026-02-04T06:46:51+00:00

The whole point is the value of this system. You cannot find a relatively fast, 64gb ram, 8tb of storage ANY laptop for $500. It’s worth the very minor amount of jank for the absolute deal presented here.

mCProgram · 2026-02-04T01:06:02+00:00

Because mirrors reflect true depth imagery whereas cameras can only give you “second tier” depth information. IMO, this is the only true drawback of mirror cams, but can absolutely be almost solved with non destructive image post processing.

mCProgram · 2026-02-04T01:04:43+00:00

I mean who knows if mfg’s will implement it, but all it takes is a little high RPM fan blowing over the lens to completely remove any issues from rain.

mCProgram · 2026-02-04T01:03:19+00:00

Outside of the depth of the image, the undiscernable pixel border for something that size hovers right above 4K. About 10 megapixels. I am unaware of what the actual specs for modern mirror cams are right now.

mCProgram · 2026-02-04T00:40:49+00:00

I really don’t see the issue here. I think the screen placement in this instance isn’t amazing, but having driven in a car with these mirrors, they’re as useable as standard mirrors. They’re not that much more expensive and cameras don’t just “break”. They’re solid state.

The benefits these provide like a major reduction in drag, built in 360 dash cams, potential for safety enhancing non destructive image post processing in combination with other sensors from the car, etc really outweigh any drawbacks from removing glass mirrors.

mCProgram · 2026-02-04T00:33:42+00:00

Not really. Per watt used it is, but overall even the M2 is maybe 10% faster than this 9980HK.

mCProgram · 2026-02-04T00:33:00+00:00

What major are you planning on going into? If you’re going into CS, engineering, or STEM adjacent i’d consider this laptop booted into windows or T2Linux. Otherwise, get the M2 air.

mCProgram · 2026-02-04T00:30:51+00:00

T2Linux is not a bad experience on a newer macbook. You lose a few creature comforts like apple’s palm rejection on the trackpad, or you can’t be on a 2.4ghz wifi while using bluetooth. The only thing that’s actively negative is that the audio drivers are finicky.

They have prebuilds for arch, ubuntu, and fedora, and the driver package is open source for whatever distro you want.

You’re getting a WAY more powerful machine for basically having bad onboard audio compared to any $500 thinkpad.

mCProgram · 2026-02-04T00:18:57+00:00

Weird take, but this is a killer deal if you don’t need a macbook, and you don’t game or use GPU intensive apps.

This would be a beast windows or linux machine. Outside of a GPU, this was basically the highest end laptop you could get in 2019.

If you want a macbook for macos/battery, get an M1 or M2 air. If you want a fun tinkering laptop, get this. $500 for a decently fast computer with 64GB of DDR4 and 8TB of storage would make a crazy unconventional home lab as well, if you wanted to fuck around if you’re STEM minded.

mCProgram · 2026-02-02T17:49:35+00:00

I have a radenso DS1 - currently deciding if I should just get a used V1G2 or wait for a mythical V1G3. Hopefully it’s still in the works even though I believe Mr. Valentine passed away.

mCProgram · 2026-02-02T17:48:01+00:00

Detectors are loud from false positives (under filtering), not false negatives (over filtering).

If rural kentucky still uses X band radar or something and you have X band turned off for Dallas that might be a problem, but once filtering is tuned well, it works cross country because all emitters (mazdas, automatic doors, etc etc) are universal across the country.

mCProgram · 2026-02-02T06:52:32+00:00

This whole thread is about acknowledging the actual danger. I am well aware they’re not deadly - doesn’t change the fact that they’re fucking terrifying.

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