In less distressing news: my personal laptop is on its way out.
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@aud Right?? E-waste is a serious fucking problem!! Laptops shouldn't be essentially disposable! Tablets are bad enough. Being able to just fix my own shit in a normal way like I would with my PC is appealing.
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@[email protected] And the idea of just, if you DO need an upgrade, just slotting in a new piece and keeping your screen, your case, your... if it's not worn out, keep it! like ffs.
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@aud @astronomerritt I've not owned one myself, but a close friend bought one two months ago and loves it. Still early, ofc, so please take with a grain of salt, but it's something?
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@[email protected] Somewhere in the back of my mind, this style of compatible and repairable laptop takes off and one day we're all building spare clusters out of old laptop mainboards for community owned computing
also for whatever reason when I typed this out, my brain imagined me running this cluster from a lemonade stand on a junk-filled sidewalk, so I think I 100% need more sleep. -
@[email protected] (obviously when my brain is doing a little free association imagery, totally the time to be working on my CV. ... hmmm...)
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@aud @astronomerritt Server farms, but with paddocks for the computers, some of which have been out of to pasture
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@[email protected] @[email protected] looking at the current price of accelerators "gunna be a grim 'ahvest this yeah"
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@[email protected] @[email protected] "welp, the compute job might take ah... bout two weeks, heah. no no, 's clean work, and simple besides, but 's the holiday season, so the big nodes're all tied up till the new yeah! so it's just the small ones. but they need the work, and they're good at it, too. reckon they're mighty excited to compute for you"
now I just want SLURM to report things in a folksy patois -
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@xgranade @aud @astronomerritt i have one and it’s great!
Also don’t be scared of the DIY version, assembly is straightforward (though the wifi leads are a little fiddly)
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@xgranade @aud @astronomerritt also my home desktop is a Framework mainboard, which I kept after upgrading, happy to answer questions.
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@cthos useful knowledge, thank you! I'm not afraid of bullding a laptop, I've built PCs and I've actually replaced a laptop wifi card before (which was EXTREMELY fiddly because the laptop was not built to make this simple task easy) (which is one reason why Framework appeals to me actually)
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@astronomerritt it’s so so good. 5 captive screws are all that’s preventing you from getting at innards and it’s all so well organized.
Even changing the display is simpler than it has any right to be.
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@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] well fuck, that's fucking cool!
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@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] I think I have yet to interact with a wifi lead that can't be described as "fiddly", at the best of times.
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@[email protected] @[email protected] one time I broke a screen on a macbook pro and tried to replace/repair it and then I had fucking cat hair and dust constantly squeeze in between the glass and the LCD for the next decade.
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@[email protected] @[email protected] Eventually it got so bad I tried to seal it up with cheap "washi" tape (washi tape my ass) from Amazon so I just had mildly decorative tape framing my dusty ass macbook screen for a year or two
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@aud @xgranade @astronomerritt here’s a shot of the lil friend connected to an egpu:
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@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] what the fuck! It's cool and even sleek looking!
