Most of them in my area are about 25 feet / 8 meters up in the air.

The average user won’t notice any difference.

My only concern is that as more large corporations and governments begin to use it, it becomes a much larger target for attacks and malware. There was a point in time where Apple was far more secure than Windows but it was mostly because they had a tiny fraction of the market share and hackers didn’t want to bother with attacking it

It’s getting better, no question. I’m hopeful it will continue to get better.

I don’t really care for Linux at all. I just hate Microsoft.

You should have told your dad what she said so that he could leave her with no guilt. Or if he chose to stay it would show true character.

Ok but they were selling shitty laptops with 4g of soldered RAM very recently. I also had to deal with a 64gb soldered SSD, that piece of shit wasn’t even that old, it was a Windows 11 PC . The torx still annoy me, but they’re a garbage company. Don’t even start on their printers.

It’s always torx. I don’t need them for anything else. And yeah I own a couple of torx bits but I have a really nice selection of Philips I keep right at hand. But like I said, that’s just one of many reasons.

I like to fix or upgrade people’s PCs here and there. I always tell people not to buy HP. There are 100 reasons, but one big one is they won’t just use regular fucking screws.

I have a 1.5 inch pocket knife.

Is this on pay per view?

No it’s just to run a single proprietary software for some old hardware at my job. It won’t even be connected to the Internet. After trying for a couple of hours I had it set up and working on Win 10 in about 20 mins including the windows install.

My job has some old equipment that has proprietary software that I can’t get to run on Linux. It’s literally the only thing I need that tower to run. It’s a 2nd gen i5. It runs Windows 10 acceptablyfrom a small SSD. It won’t even be connected to the internet.

I sometimes do. But I’d point a gun back and say, make the penguin run this software in a way that doesn’t require a power user or take a newbie three fucking weeks.

I use Linux a lot and have about ten PCs running it so far, but I literally just installed Windows 10 on a shitbox that will very rarely be online because it was my best option for the software and respecting my time. I don’t work in IT. I run a small nonprofit and I used to build and upgrade/repair PCs as a side gig.

It’s fucking wild. I want to go back to 1999 when the N64 was the hot thing and the government wasn’t tracking everything everyone does everywhere all the time.

Meanwhile, I have a 16-year-old son who plays Roblox a decent amount, they do facial scanning and then put you in groups based on their assessment. Or at least that is my understanding. Dude just turned 16 this week, but they put him in the over 21 category. Granted he does have a full beard and has a ridiculously deep voice, but he did at 14 just like I did. I’m not worried about him gaming with older people though, he doesn’t really want to leave the house so he’s not going to get raped by some predator, plus the 21+ crowd is generally more mature. And whatever they have to say, he’s probably already heard it anyway. And I dare a predator to come here lol. They’d never find him.

I tried it once when I was 18. Don’t be like me.

Fuck Reddit but this place is far from a bastion of free sharing of ideas. Honestly fuck Lemmy too.

I have at least 80 DIMMS of DDR3. Upgrading an old tower this morning.

My 4070ti isn’t as beefy but there’s still not a non-nvidia upgrade. And I am able to play most of my games at 4k / 120. I’d like to upgrade mine so I can give my card to my daughter and give her 3060ti to her brother who is currently running a 1060.