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I just finished setting up Linux Mint for an old buddy of mine on his old dog of a laptop, rendering it useful once again! in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[–] fd_nomad@feddit.de 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Silly question but what do ya'll use to get that fancy summary?

Helldivers: Internal discussions are ongoing about the mandatory linking change. The response from our dev team has been pretty universally negative and we're looking for better options. in c/games@sh.itjust.works

[–] fd_nomad@feddit.de 8 points 6 months ago

To be fair, you only hear about a company failing to predict the backlash if there actually is big backlash. Who knows how many times have correctly predicted a lack of backlash when doing something shitty.

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Seeking guidance on an AMD laptop purchase (feddit.de)

submitted 6 months ago by fd_nomad@feddit.de to c/amd@lemmy.ml

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Hello fellas,

I'm looking to buy a new laptop for office/programming work and entertainment up to mid-range games for a while. I had Intel/NVIDIA on my desktop and have Intel in my current laptop and I'd love to try out a laptop with AMD CPU and GPU before I get my next desktop. I'm thinking about running some arch-based distro or falling back to something like Pop_OS! if it doesn't go well. Honestly, I'm entirely unexperienced in choosing hardware and I would deeply appreciate any guidance.

I've read through comments for some laptop manufacturers including Lenvo, Asus, MSI, Acer, MSI, etc. and there doesn't appear to be any concensus. Apparently all of the hardware, manufacturing quality, customer service, etc. has entirely gone to shit at every company. I'm looking for a qwertz keyboard layout and shipping from within Germany so companies like system76 and framework 16 are a bit difficult.

My biggest question is about AMD laptop GPUs. Sometimes the shops just say "Radeon Graphics" or something like "780M" but I assume those are integrated graphics (?) and the ones I'm actually looking for are listed on here. Shops usually don't have a filter for those though, so I'm having a hard time finding them. The steam deck has an AMD APU listed but I haven't seen that in any shops as an option and doesn't appear to support ROCm.

As far as I can tell what I'm looking for are "AMD advantage laptops" but the only ones available in Germany I can find are

ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14

AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS
AMD Radeon RX 6700S

ASUS TUF Gaming A16

AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS
AMD Radeon RX 7600S

MSI Delta 15

AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX
AMD Radeon RX 6700M

They're only available without configuration options like 32 instead of 16 GB RAM or without Windows, secondary drive, etc. Is this it? There appear to be a billion options for laptops with NVIDIA GPUs. Is this a silly experiment of mine and I should give up? Or are the above listed viable options?

Any insights are appreciated!

Which video games have been trapped on a hardware platform (console/handheld/headset/etc.) that you wish would be ported well? in c/games@sh.itjust.works

[–] fd_nomad@feddit.de 11 points 8 months ago

oh if only I could have my beloved Bloodborne on PC

What are some clever ideas that Sisyphus could use to escape his punishment? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

[–] fd_nomad@feddit.de 11 points 8 months ago

I'm not sure if this is just how Stephen Fry laid the story out but I dont like the idea that the gods just said: push this rock up a hill. He was a trickster cheating his way out of death again and again. I like the idea that the gods said: if you manage to push this rock all the way up the hill, you get to cheat death yet again. He's sure he can do it as before. He rolls it up and it rolls over him but he starts over thinking this is the time he'll get to the top. It perfectly punishes his arrogance, he doesnt consider his failure possible so he keeps going and going. The way to escape his punishment is humility.