What “merits” needing a CPU upgrade? I upgraded from a core i9 11950h to a 13900h machine because I needed more performance. That 11th gen machine still looks pristine besides one spot where a cat bit the corner of the lid. Even my piddling around machine wasn’t up to snuff and upgraded from a 10th gen i5 to a 12th gen system. That machine’s keyboard was a bit worn when I first got it, but it’s not (appreciably) worse now. Besides that and maybe the palm rest the chassis is in pretty good condition. Why does it matter if the keycaps are a little smooth? Or there’s a small scuff on one corner. Or a cat punctured the bezel of the display and somehow didn’t break anything.

You’re worried about the screen being worn out? How does a screen wear out (excluding maybe oled burn in, but this aint oled). And a good chassis shouldn’t show that much wear after a few years.

They’re still far better than everything else on the market.

IdeaPads also aren’t ThinkPads. Those are the consumer grade garbage you’d want to stay away from.

That’s cool. Performance per dollar isn’t the only factor for a laptop.

Size

Weight

Durability

Battery life

I/O and other features.

A not dogshit network card

An actually usuable trackpad

I’m sure I could list more. But those are all things that are important on a laptop and you can’t change after you buy it.

The law requires things to have a backdoor (or non encryption I guess). So it’s either sell in that market, or don’t and have security.

Lemmy is not the demographic to ask this question. You’re definitely skewed towards using a desktop/laptop here.

The first Android phone had the nipple, so must be the layout or something.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Dream

Windows Hello (and presumably modern Linux equivalents) use the camera + IR transmitters to work at least similarly to how apples Face ID works. In theory they should both be secure, but in practice who knows what they fucked up.

DWM

Letting them pass. If it’s a 4 lane highway get in the right lane and drive a speed different from the car next to you.

Is the person tailgating because you’re going slow?

And when you drive slow everyone is going to start to pile together into a big group and that only serves to make safety worse. You’re not doing something good by doing this, let them get away from you if you value safety.

That’s cool except you’re no wasting everyone’s time and not just the person directly behind you.

Through their emulation layer you can run basically all modern software runs on it, and even most older games (albeit kinda poorly sometimes). The emulation layer lacks a fun CPU instructions that games or maybe cad software might use. But it’s genuinely pretty good if you’re running it on good hardware. At work we’re primarily a windows shop but the boss man likes Macs so everyone runs windows in a VM and they can do everything they need.

700 Chrome tabs, a very bloated IDE, an Android emulator, a VM, another Android emulator, a bunch of node.js processes (and their accompanying chrome processes)

Even the IGPU should get better performance than that. I played Kerbal Space Program on a 2011 MacBook Air and got at least 30 fps.

but doesn’t post his findings

3 year high

That’s long after the reign of smart phones started. https://www.statista.com/chart/amp/15524/worldwide-camera-shipments/

They haven’t completely replaced them. But for 99% of people they’ve replaced them for 99% of their photography needs.

My job is regex.

At my company we store our regex in the database with linebreaks in it, but when it’s actually called to be used those line breaks are stripped out. That way regex that looks for X can all be all on one line and actually readable.