Yet.

The 12" Surface pro doesn’t even come with a power supply. Even Apple still includes one with the iPad.

Yes.

Our office has a few different nut/oak milk options and none of them are good with coffee. They finally stocked half and half and it was insane how much better it was.

I agree, in coffee it’s way too watery. If I’m putting creamer in I want it to be good creamer.

If all you did was install a bad OS then usually yeah. Just install the right one or restore a backup.

Making sure you have the right one/backups beforehand is the key. Sometimes manufactures don’t post restore images or have good ways to restore.

Why can you brick android phone by installing custom ROM. But such thing can’t happen on x86?

PCs have a well documented and standard bios (UEFI now), and the process of booting of external media is standard. Plus hardware is extremely custom in ARM land.

Also when people “brick” their phone they usually just loaded a bad rom on it and soft bricked it. Most of the time you’re not flashing anything that would actually hard brick it. Delete system32 and now you’ve “bricked” your PC.

Sure, but being good out of the box is very important for normal users. Power users love the crazy customization. Normal people don’t really care.

One of my ex co workers was in a biker gang. They’d find and beat up child abusers. He was a cool dude.

Do any privacy oriented things to your browser? Or have a lot of people who share your IP?

Because it works on my machine™️

Are you using a VPN?

Shouldn’t the sims 4 be considered free to play? The base game is free, only the dlc is paid.

This is revenue. How many people are buying those games now? Older games are also usually heavily discounted so that’s even less money. And if the game was bought second hand then it’s entirely irrelevant.

Half the time it’s not even doing anything. Minimal CPU and disk usage. They want update to be a background thing, but sometimes I just want it to hurry up and be over with.

MS must be listening to me. I just did todays update and it had my CPUs E cores pegged at 100% usage for a few minutes installing updates.

The early days of windows 10 was rough. Every major update they just reinstalled the OS.

Buuut it meant that you could install the latest version, and at worst only have a few more updates before you’re fully updated. Vs like 7 you’d install SP1, then spend 3 hours installing subsequent updates and rebooting.

That said sometimes windows like purposefully throttles installing updates and I just want a button that says “install as fast as fucking possible”. I know it slows down on battery, but plugged in please just go as fast as you possibly can.

They’re not that expensive, but they’re not cheap. The DJI mini goes on sale for like $200 fairly often and that’s an insane value for what it is. But yeah, unless you live in an area with a lot of great views you’ll probably use it a handful of times then leave it in its box.

Unfortunately the US government is trying to outlaw them so we might not get newer models.

The models that the commercial AIs use are not at all usable on consumer grade hardware. The RTX pro 6000 has 96 gigs of vram, your GPU probably had 8.

I’ve played with the models that run on 16 gigs and it’s alright. But I wouldn’t even try fully vibe coding. Need some help with something small? Sure. But I wouldn’t have it try to make a finished product.

What whack ass setup so you think OP has? Dual 5090s? They’re running it on an i7.

$500 is your max budget and 1080p is even a consideration?

We have a bunch of these at work and I like them. For $500 you can almost get 2 of them. You can also get a cheap 4k display with a VESA mount for like $200 + a monitor arm for like $50 and move the display wherever you want. As long as the display isn’t TN it’ll be fine.

What kind of systems are we talking about here? Mission critical client facing servers that if one goes down for 10 minutes you’re likely to get people canceling? Or just a home web server?

At home I virtualize everything. So I just make a snapshot, update, then if something goes wrong I can roll back. 30 minutes of downtime isn’t gonna kill me.

At work we have A/B systems. So we can update A, test it internally, if it’s good then swap to make them front facing. If nobody screams then we update B. If someone screams it’s a flick of a switch and maybe a minute of downtime.

45 watts is only the “base power” of the CPU. Which in Intel land is meaningless. Max turbo is 95-115w on the CPUs in that machine. PSREF sadly doesn’t list the power it throttles to when the dGPU is active, only the latest few gens of machines do.

Buuut 12th Gen. is when Intel introduced the minimum assured power and even the i5 option is 35 watts. With the much weaker GPU options for that machine I doubt the CPU will be the bottleneck like my machine. But based on what I’ve seen it seems like the system struggles to even maintain the 35 watt tdp when the GPU is active.

It looks like the AMD version is much better. It sticks to the 45 watts for the CPU and 35 watts for the GPU. But used AMD ThinkPads are pretty rare so I’m assuming you’re looking at the intel version.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-ThinkPad-P15v-G3-AMD-laptop-review-a-ThinkPad-workstation-now-with-a-Ryzen-6000H-for-the-first-time.710157.0.html#%3A~%3Atext=Temperature