The logic board has the CPU built in, that’s true. However, the Framework 16 has a swappable GPU and all models make the ports independent of the logic board through a USB-C-based expansion module system. So that’s even a few parts other manufacturer might consider unreasonable.

(Also, to be fair, I forgot one other thing most laptops let you swap: The WiFi/BT card, if only because it’s cheaper to have that on a swappable module.)

I mean, asterisk. Most laptops let you swap the storage and RAM and many let you swap the battery. Beyond that it usually gets difficult.

Framework let you swap everything, which is a major difference. But of course you pay for that privilege; modular design has its costs.

Still, good on you for getting a cheap upgrade. No need to throw away a perfectly good laptop if you can make it work fast again with a new SSD.

https://github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux

It’s also on Flathub and the AUR. And the Snap store, if you use that for some reason.

Heck, that can even happen with Windows.

My Logitech F710 never worked right with Windows because the driver’s power saving feature doesn’t mesh well with Windows 10’s power saving feature, causing dropped inputs. No such problems under Linux.

Not everything works everywhere. People are used to how things don’t work with Windows and learning how things don’t work differently with a Linux distro is annoying because you learn by running into problems. If you have people to switch over and have a good time you have to help than through this.

They stopped supporting Teams on Linux entirely. Linux users are supposed to run Teams in a browser and the browser version lacks certain features, even things like custom background images; you can only use the ones provided by Microsoft.

I use an unofficial client, which seems to be based on the old official one. That gives me most of the functionality back.

Remarkably, that somehow makes it slightly less ugly, if inly for breaking up the optical lines and making it look less like a drivable polygon. Then again, anything from a 90s geometric pattern to WWI dazzle camouflage would’ve had the same effect while being more dignified.

Okay, perhaps not dignified. It’s a Cybertruck.

Hotel cubes? You mean non-adjustable shared desks with 10 cm high felt partitions which do absolutely nothing to keep you from hearing the espresso machine with perfect clarity no matter where you sit. Also, every team contains at least one consultant who remotes in from another country so all meetings have to be on Teams.

When you like rolling release distros because you’re still traumatized from trying to version-upgrade Fedora Core. Although I went with Garuda because of convenience tools like garuda-update.

If Microsoft had added an Android app runtime (even if it were slow), they would’ve had a much better argument for buying Windows phones. As it was, their sales pitch was “buy a phone with this new OS that doesn’t run any of your apps, from the guys who made WinCE” (Windows Phone) and “buy a phone with this new OS that looks exactly like the last OS but won’t run apps from that one or Android” (Windows 10 Phone).

By the time Win10P dropped, nobody expected Microsoft to actually commit to it (so the enthusiast crowd stayed away) and its app ecosystem was literally a decade behind the competition (so casual users wouldn’t touch it). And then Microsoft didn’t see sales and promptly canceled the whole thing.

And everyone is trying to muddle through, including your heroes. I think it’s good to keep this in mind; both to avoid feeling inferior for not having your shit figured out (because nobody has) and to be tolerant of people making mistakes – nobody’s perfect and everyone has issues besides getting your order exactly right.

Be chill with yourself and with other people.

Assuming they have the skill and physical ability to build a house and you have enough empty lots, permits, EOD surveys where necessary…

Some of these people could help build houses but they certainly can’t replace people who know what they’re doing. I’m not going to put someone in a house where the foundation or wiring were done by someone whose expertise amounts to watching a YouTube video.

And yeah, availability of lots is a major issue, as is funding. Not something you can fix by making homeless people help out.

We need to fix the housing market and provide more cheap options for low income tenants. Public housing is one such option. Still, we need to address the root problem. When square meter prices keep rising faster than wages do, people will keep getting priced out of their homes.

I just love how you just assert that your information is properly sourced while providing no sources at all. Beautiful.

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“Computer, I use Arch btw.”

The holodeck’s exit arch appears in hopes of keeping the user from debating rolling release Linux distros with Ludwig van Beethoven

It’s also a bunch of scripts that automate the operation of said compiler.

Gentoo is not for people who like to compile software; it’s for people who like to watch as software is compiled.

More specifically, “absolute” refers to being above the law or other oversight. An absolute ruler is not bound by the laws that govern everyone else; being able to rule by decree is a consequence of that as there can be no laws that prevent this.

The Marathon AIs weren’t all bad.

Leela meant well but was completely outclassed.

Durandal had been rampant since before the first game and only reached some degree of stability once he stole that Pfhor ship. He was basically designed to be unstable. While he was certainly an asshole with rather loose morals, he also made sure that Leela could warm humanity about the Pfhor and that his S’pht allies got what they wanted. He’s on the verge of being an antihero.

Tycho… Well, we only saw him after the Pfhor rebuilt him and that version of him is pretty clearly a villain.

Thoth was barely conscious until he merged with Durandal. I can’t say much about him. He is possibly involved with altering the timeline after the W’rkncacnter was released so I’d book him as a good guy.

(I am mad at the new Marathon but for different reasons than the AIs.)

You pay five million bucks to the government, presumably to be pocketed by the president. Under the legal concept of l’etat, c’est moi you have therefore substantially benefitted the United States.

I did that and what I find interesting is that exactly one MEP replied. Well, his assistant did but that still counts. The way the reply was worded even made clear that someone did read my mail specifically.

I’m not a friend of the BSW but I will acknowledge that their MEP Jan-Peter Warnke is in opposition and responsive (via assistant).

But even if the rest of the bunch was silent, do send those mails. Or send paper mail. Or a fax; we’re taking about German MEPs after all. Either way, make your voice heard.

Mind you, the anime part came from some guys on the Internet combining a sped-up version of the original song with some dancing from the opening of a hentai show. (Or game? I don’t remember.)

Then it went viral and the label marketed the hell out of it.

The original song is just another piece of generic dance music: Four on the floor beat; lyrics that vaguely describe dance steps; catchy because Swedish producers can’t produce non-catchy songs.