Based on many comments in here, I get the feeling that this isn’t a logics/facts type of issue. Obviously, OP should start with that, but if/when it fails, it’s time to switch to more emotional tactics. This problem sounds a lot like some other cases where tangled emotions formed the foundation. There could be an emotional reason why these people are behaving the way they do. Find that, and you should be able to understand what you’re really dealing with. Problems like this just don’t tend to respond very well to truth, evidence, facts or logic. People are usually more or less emotional creatures, so that should be taken into account.

How’s power management doing these days?

Oh, that’s good to hear.

Based on the specs, I can already see two potential issues.

1. Windows 10
2. NVIDIA

Let me guess, you can’t upgrade to W11. If so, dual booting to an abandoned system like that is risky. If I had to do that, I would only do it while the computer is totally offline. If you do get updates to the Windows partition, there are reports of Windows breaking some dual boot things. This means, that you might need to fix some things after a Windows update.

Also, NVIDIA hates Linux with a burning passion. You can make things work to some extent, but it can be a rocky ride. Wifi is another potential issue in case you happen to have a wifi chip that isn’t well supported. Just try a live USB first before installing and you’ll know if something doesn’t work.

Because of all of the above, this looks like a system that can run Linux, but you might need to prepare for some tweaking. There are easier starting points too, but then you would need to sell that old computer and buy something nicer to replace it with. With hardware like that, you’re definitely not playing this game in the easy mode, that’s for sure.

May not be genius, but it works to some extent. Dynasties have been very popular for millennia, so that means it’s at least somewhat successful. Probably not good for the nation or the citizens, but at least dynasties don’t implode during the first year.

Production engineers and battery scientists do. In their normal work, they only get to see like 0.1% improvements, so anything above 1% is like magic to them.

Yes. That’s true, but the major headlines don’t tell you about any of the 1-5% improvements that undoubtedly are happening all the time. The headlines focus on stuff that is either highly theoretical or still in the lab for the next few decades. If you want to read about what’s actually realistic and about to be implemented in production, those articles are probably in some monthly battery engineering journals.

Ooh, so that’s CEO speak for: “we’re broke, please give us more money”.

As long as it runs, it’s hackable. If it fails to compile, or crashes on start, nobody can hack it.

Oh, and the weekly battery articles too. “This new battery will charge in 10 minutes and last 2 weeks.”

And these people get paid absurd amounts of money too.

See also: COOL:gen

The whole concept of generating code is basically ancient by now. I heard about this stuff in the 90s, but now I found it that this thing has been around since 1985.

When the CEO of a tech company says that in x months this and that will happen, you know it’s just musk talk.

Yeah that pretty much sums it up. Sadly, it didn’t tell me how much coal was burned and how many starving orphan puppies it had to stomp on to produce the result.

In Copilot terminology, this is a “quick response” instead of the “think deeper” option. The latter actually stops to verify the initial answer before spitting it out.

Deep thinking gave me this: Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Maryland, North Dakota, Rhode Island, and South Dakota.

It took way longer, but at least the list looks better now. Somehow it missed Nevada, so it clearly didn’t think deep enough.

Can you share the prompt you used for making this happen? I think I could use it for a bunch of different things.

Cyberspace, hypertext, multimedia, dot com, Web 2.0, cloud computing, SAAS, mobile, big data, blockchain, IoT, VR and so many more. Sure, they can be used for some things, but doing that takes time, effort and money. On top of that, you need to know exactly when to use these things and when to choose something completely different.

I think that’s just the natural range of masculinity. Unfortunately, culture has evolved to focus on one extreme and ignore the other. If you happen to naturally gravitate towards “the wrong end of the spectrum”, you’ll run into some problems that shouldn’t even exist in the first place.

I check !communitypromo@lemmy.ca from time to time.

If you happen to have a nice enterprise laptop, you can usually access the card very easily. For example HP EliteBook laptops (which are sort of nice laptops, but with a bad keyboard) you won’t even need any tools to open the bottom lid. Lenovo ThinkPad laptops tend to require a screwdriver. Never actually swapped a wifi card on either of these, but I guess there could be one more screw holding the card in place. Definitely doable, and it won’t take too long.

Contrast that with HP Pavilion or Acer Aspire TrashBooks. Yes, I have opened a few of those, and I regret every minute of it. Normally, you need to disassemble the whole thing before you get to even see the parts you need to swap. It’s not quite as painful as opening Apple hardware, but it’s not far behind. Verdict: 2/10, would not recommend.