havemylife

Is there a way I can view this without going through Google drive?

What disgusts you about its tone?

I found it informative and probably from honest experience. It's superficial chearful embrace towards problems people create for themselves is instructive towards correcting those habits.

This is perspicaciously cynical. I love it.

Not nearly as bad as taking one experiment and extrapolating as conclusive. To clearify, there isn't enough retesting of experiments to make good science from.

Or when an experiment's results have been challenged or disregarded yet people continue to recall the first experiment's results. For example, the Stanford prison psychology study.

However, yes, poorly constructed headlines meant to attract a click rather than true information is still bad. Though that might be a fault of the collective being more interested in snipping headlines without reading the articles behind it.

I recall reading that the thread ripper 2 is supposed to use more power so early motherboards with that socket my not be able to handle it. Just something to keep in mind.

Regardless damn good on AMD.

Why can't we do both?

So... I didn't know what kerogens were so I looked it up. Classified as solid organic matter in sedimentary rock. It is formed by the degredation of living matter.

So wouldn't this discovery relating to Mars further hint that it may have supported life in its past?

Seconding the Thinkpad. There's also various repurposed IBM (I want to say mostly T200 and T400) that have GNU/Linux and an open source bios (or boot loader, I apologise if I'm mixing terms) pre-installed.

Price is probably high for the hardware though I think it's goes back into further open-source libre development.

But if it is important to you, you'll actually 'own' your computer.

> 3 physical button trackpoint with textured nub gifted upon us by the Thinkpad Gods of old

Ah how I wish I still had a laptop with the nub (even if it had a touch pad too). I've never really understood why that didn't become standard since I think Toshiba and maybe even Dell had a variant of it.

The multi-gesture touch pads are nice, but for precision and minimal interference without a standard desk mouse the nub is supreme.

I don't have experience with those particular programs however things I would consider are duel booting windows when you need to use them. Or run them in a VM so you won't have to reboot your system.

Then, since they're proprietary programs, you can't really fix them yourself even if you had the ability to do otherwise. Therefore research if others have had similar experience with those particular programs. Then, if those programs have actual Linux support, contact them and let them know what issues you're encountering. Since they're not open source libre software the community can't fix it so it's those companies programmers jobs to fix those problems.

It really depends on what you want and what you use your computer for.

There are obviously political and ethical aspects you may be concerned about but I think it's better to just not get into that now.

You mention needing a laptop with hardware supported by Linux. I would recommend first beginning with looking at various laptops sold with Linux. This should take care of any hardware incompatibility others have mentioned (though do your research).

Linux (or GNU-Linux) packages most of it's drivers in the Linux kernal (please correct if I'm mistaken) so that if a piece of hardware is supported it is ready to go after you install the OS.

It should be noted however that graphics cards/units have various levels of support with from what I understand Intel currently having the best open source support with Nvidia haveing pretty decent proprietary drivers. Ati/AMD varries though that shouldn't necessarily preclude you from an AMD processor. Importantly do your research on support for those components.

As far as software is concerned that I haven't the foggiest idea what to recommend. If you just need a web browser, an office suite, and streaming video, then Ubuntu I would say handles all that pretty good. (It's all I've run for the last couple years, and mixed before that).

Most importantly patience, research, and if you can't find an answer always ask. And be open to learning (until you die).