Yeah i don’t have that kind of experience, so me troubleshooting parts would drag on forever. And then they could break months down the line.
In my experience, when buying second hand you trade time and effort for the price; being able to fix things means more time and more effort for even more savings. That’s what this really is.
I guess there’s something to how little i understand computer hardware making me imagine it as more fragile than it is
Oh wow, i wasn’t expecting helpful advice for that specific model. Thanks!
The fingerprint scanner never worked properly, i had to register the same finger 3 times to make it kinda usable. Now a few months later it doesn’t work at all.
I’m thinking of buying my next set of PC parts used, but i’m scared of the reliability. Which is weird because i buy absolutely everything else scond hand
Samsung A03.
After years of buying the cheapest phones possible, i got really tired of it and spent more money to get a better one, hoping to finally be free of all the bullshit.
It’s the worst phone i’ve ever owned.
Cost me 100€ second hand instead of the ususal 50€. I am so disgusted
I have a passing familiarity with the politics of a couple countries, and they all fit this pattern: their constitutions say nothing of a two-party system, they don’t even say anything about parties at all. People just choose to create political parties, and then those parties coalesce into two major parties.
The reason that this happens is because people, from voters to every level of politician, look at the rules of the game and make tactical decisions; their tactical decisions cause a two-party system to emerge.
The USA is a really extreme case of this; in Europe there are more parties, and they even very occasionally come to power. Current french president Macron broke a decades-long streak of two-party governance in his country.
Further viewing material:
Minority Rule: First Past the Post Voting
The Alternative Vote Explained
My takeaway from this is that there are things that can be done to improve the voting system, as suggested in these videos; but i don’t even like representative democracy at all, i think there’s better solutions in direct democracy (referendums and such). Representative democracy was designed to put elites in charge, voting was initially reserved for land-owning nobility. Extending voting rights to more people doesn’t change what the system is designed to do.
I don’t know what would happen to your body, but i know these would be the worst meals you’ll ever have
Yeah, i have a huge archive of music in .mp3 format and it keeps growing. There is no appreciable loss in quality between uncompressed and 320kb/s, with the potential to go reasonably lower depending on the source quality.
I’m like this with my movies too, with some exceptions all 2000 of them are around 1-2Gb in size, which is considered small in the torrenting community. For those ones i can actually notice the low image quality, but it kinda doesn’t bother me.
I have good headphones and a good TV, i just stopped believing in high fidelity. People adore the imperfections of vinyl and VHS media, and i kind of feel the same way towards digital artifacts, movies feel weird when the image is too sharp. For music, again, i don’t even notice.
In this context, if a format can cut my library size in half and i can’t tell the audio difference, AND it’s patent-free, i see this as an absolute win.
Not that most people would care anyway, in the age of streaming people don’t have libraries anymore
I had San Andreas on PS2 as a kid, only played it on PC a little bit as an adult; but, the fact that you type the cheat codes on a keyboard means they kinda make words, so i forgot the PS2 ones and i remember some PC ones.
AIWPRTON
HESOYAM
You know Call of Duty started out as killing nazis on the Quake engine. I don’t remember really liking them but it’s there
Life hack: let someone steal your car. They get easy loot, you get 1. conveniently rid of your beater and 2. insurance money.
Disclaimer: i’m not the first to think of this and they made it illegal long before your beater was even built
I’ve never seen Loops but i like it purely because it reminds me of
The idea that nature is precious and must be preserved is human-centric.
Trees caused an extinction event when they appeared by absorbing all the carbon dioxyde and radically changing the atmosphere. But we feel bad when we’re the ones doing it
“You got that money”
Looks like they threw some loose change at Jill Stein
What gaming is like for a non-gamer
This guy had his non-gaming wife try different games, very enlightening for your purposes
But that’s just the thing, all the best food in the UK comes from India, France, or Italy.
Has anybody tried to get TempleOS to run Doom?
I know this is a classical bad faith argument and doesn’t warrant a response, but hilariously, i’ve genuinely done that before. I got to know one of those street punk types and he slept on my couch multiple times.
For what little i know of this internet stranger, i’d rather him stay at my place than you
It’s per week.
500 x 4 = 2000/month
2000 x 12 = 24k
By all means i’d love to split restaurant bills with you ;)