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    Mercutio replied to the thread Laptop time?.
    Consumer notebooks are hard. My Ideapad 1s came from visiting a Walmart and a Best Buy to see what's acceptable at less than $350...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Firefox extremely slow.
    I'm thinking that the fresh (Windows?) user account is a good idea just to avoid the possibility that there's some accumulation of cruft...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Something Random.
    I have the additional aggravation that my health care is non-traditional, so my meds are at least partially selected for what can be...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Firefox extremely slow.
    This does not align with my experiences with Firefox. Even on something deeply pathetic like a 4th gen i3 with 4GB RAM, Firefox and...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Firefox extremely slow.
    As an aside, Firefox and Brave are the only two mainstream browsers with ongoing support for thorough ad blocking. I've found no...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Firefox extremely slow.
    Look under Settings --> Privacy & Security --> DNS over HTTPS. Try turning that on or off to see if that makes a difference.
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Something Random.
    Just blood pressure management. Both my parents needed blood pressure medication by my age so it's not surprising that I do too. I'm...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Something Random.
    There's a stray I've been feeding for the last few years. She's had a litter of kittens every June like clockwork. She kind of nests...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Laptop time?.
    Decent CPU and nice screen is an extremely solid recipe for almost everyone's day to day needs so long as they aren't doing gaming...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Nvidia 50xx.
    I'm more than a little concerned that an entire generation of educated people and actually untold natural resources have been diverted...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Nvidia 50xx.
    Ed Zitron just published some leaked internal revenue data from OpenAI. This company that wants $70 billion this year from VCs and...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Ryzen.
    New Steam Deck thing was announced today. It's a 30W Zen4 6c/12t CPU with 16GB RAM and either 500GB or 2TB of internal storage. That...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Something Random.
    I lost a cat to breast cancer at the beginning of 2024 and a kitten to brain cancer in 2020. The kitten absolutely killed me, because I...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Nvidia 50xx.
    Softbank announced that it is divesting itself from nVidia, currently the most valuable enterprise in human history, to fund OpenAI, a...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Ryzen.
    It's been brought to my attention that it's possible to buy an Asrock BC250 SBC for around US$100. These things are 6c/12t Zen2 APUs...
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