The worst laptop you can find could probably be better than even a reasonably specced VPS. Low end VPS are dire, and you can get some pretty decent laptops for almost nothing. If it’s pre 8th Gen. Intel they’re basically worthless on the used market. But they’ll still easily get the job done.

Can it solve captchas for me?

My friend had an older MSI gaming laptop and it was built like SHIT. He didn’t use it a whole lot until he started working at our company and it lasted maybe 4 years of reasonable daily use. Physically it was fine because he never actually touched the laptop. But that thing was so incredibly unstable and eventually ended with it’s M.2 and it’s internal sata slots being unusable, and making the machine take 5 minutes to boot.

I also bought two MSI “business” laptops and those things were absolute junk too. The touch panel came from the factory broken. Thankfully nobody wants to use that shit so we just disabled. But my co worker dropped one the other day and we need to replace the whole display assembly but I can’t for the life of me find parts for the machine. After about two weeks of searching my only options were A. a whole ass laptop for $500 (thankfully they depreciate lick a rock) or B. A complete display assembly for $375. No thanks, we’re replacing those pieces of shit.

Unless you want to game on it save yourself the suffering and just get a used thinkpad. The T14 gen 1 goes for $200 easily and it’s quadcore CPU is sufficient, and you can find it with the 6 core. I bought a T14 s gen 2 AMD for $300 and it’s 6 core blows that T14 out of the water and gets far better battery life, plus it’s iGPU ain’t no slouch. (All prices USD, can will probably be higher)

Side note are there any good hardware swap communities on lemmy? I have a number of old machines I need to get rid of.

If it worked well it’s really nice. The problem is apps in the background tend to not update it as often as it should. So sometimes I’ll have a weather alert that’s 30 minutes old, along with a notification saying “please open the app for more updated info”.

90% of the time the fix was just rebooting the machine. We just got tired of the machine breaking and exploding on us so we’d just stop doing that and say it’s broken broken.

Starbound is still under development? I hadn’t heard anything about it in years.

Was that a 2280 M.2 drive?

That’s what makes this bleeding edge since those drives are so tiny. 15tb in a 2.5" drive is nothing special.

During depressions the rich stand to lose a lot more than the poor. And if there’s a depression I’m sure a lot of companies will start offloading their properties.

That’s the cost of high end bleeding edge tech.

If it’s a small buisness (10 people) the “business” is you.

That’s why I spent 2k to import an iPhone from Canada instead of buying one locally. I travel to Costa Rica often and I keep my tmobile esim for most other tasks, but I can pick up a sim for $5 and that will last me most of my trip as long as I’m smart with my data usage.

and there’s no option to turn it off permanently.

Did you actually try looking this up. Turn it off in settings and it’s off forever until you turn it back on.

When oh don’t tip you give the restaurant their money, but the waiter doesn’t get their money. Think about who this is hurting.

You can always go the old school approach of doing it in your garage… Or whatever he’s technically in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuVS7MsQk4Y

I have an N100 box for my router and it’s great for singe gigabit or less. But > 1gbit and you really quickly need some serious hardware.

At work I was using a VM with 2 cores from a xeon 4215 and it struggled to get anything more than 2 gbit. As soon as I bumped it up to 4 cores I was able to get the full 4gbit speeds. If I wanted to do any traffic shaping or packet inspection speeds would tank. Also my OpenVPN speeds kinda suck on this N100 device. They’re never great, but I can definitely tell I’m getting CPU bound vs when I ran it on my server. So if you plan on running extra services don’t expect the greatest performance.

A lot of networking traffic is single core dependent so I’ve been trying to find one of those weird 5 core machines with 1 P core and 4 E cores which I think would be the perfect fit.

The 6000 series from AMD were so great because they picked the correct process node. Nvidia went with the far inferior Samsung 8nm node over TSMCs 7. Yet Nvidia still kept up with AMD in most areas (ignoring ray tracing).

Even the disastrous GTX 480 outsold ATI/AMD’s cards in most markets.

The “disastrous” Fermi cards were also compute monsters. Even after the 600 series came out people were buying the 500 series over them because they performed so much better for the money. Instead of picking up a Kepler Quadra card in order to get double precision you could get a regular ass GTX 580 and do the same thing.

You’re going to get fired. That’s a personal risk.

Doing nothing costs a whole lot more than doing something, and then potentially risking getting sued.

Also no random manager is going to take that personal risk. They get paid like 40k a year.

Uefis have been around since ~2010 so at this point all distros understand how to use them, and at this point default to working perfectly with them.

Secure boot is the only real potential road block. You can just turn it off if you don’t care about it.

This is the same as complaining that my job puts a filter on my work computer that lets them know if I’m googling porn at work.

That is an extreme leap what the fuck.

Network filters that block certain domains.

Vs

Key logger that tracks everything you type into the computer, even things you’ve deleted.