Linux gamer, retired aviator, profanity enthusiast
Does anyone remember this being one of those things The News makes up about teenagers to scare old people into sitting through a commercial about reverse mortgages? “And finally at the top of the hour a The News exclusive: Kids These Days are having sex by touching their eyeballs together. Film after the break.” Like how The News basically manufactured the Tide Pods thing.
what good ever comes from being desirable to women?
No. Just ignore the content entirely. Let the fruit of their labors die on the vine and rot in the fields.
I mean there’s a chance that machine is still running Windows Vista.
It would have been a decent machine during the Bush administration.
So those specs are like 20 years out of date, and then I checked when was the last time May 4 was on a Thursday, and it was 2023.
Sometimes I’ll wake up with a handful of face. My cat will have just crammed her head into my hand and there’s a little grey nose sticking out from between my fingers.
the way they market it is "most laptops these days have like 2 USBC ports on one side and that’s it. it’s has 4 ports, two on each side, that can be anything you want.
I bet Hawaii is behind the foreground graphics too.
In Framework’s case, the port modules slide into rails in the chassis and click into a latch. They’re surrounded on four sides by the chassis of the laptop only exposed on the bottom and the outboard edge where the port is. The USB-C port on the motherboard is actually relieved of most if not all of the strain.
Take a typical machine, like a Macbook Air or this little Lenovo Ideapad I’ve got. The USB ports on the side are mounted either directly to the motherboard which spans the whole chassis, or a separate daughterboard connected with a ribbon cable. Now plug a USBC to HDMI dongle into that, and then a thick, heavy HDMI cable off of that. The weight of all of this is now being supported by the solder joints holding that USBC port to the circuit board. On a Framework laptop, effectively what’s happening is the USBC to HDMI dongle is being braced by the chassis so the little USBC connection isn’t bearing the weight of the HDMI cable. So I think Framework’s solution is less prone to damage in practice.
Furthermore, do you know how many laptops I’ve seen that had dongles sticking out of a port that were dropped on that dongle, destroying that USB port? Framework’s solution does two things: Puts adapter dongles inboard of the chassis meaning no vulnerable protrusions, and if you do have, say, a Logitech Unifying Transciever sticking out of a USB-A port adapter, and it gets dropped on that corner and it destroys the port, it will be the removable module that gets damaged, not the motherboard port. So go to their store, buy another $9 port module, and swap it out yourself.
I imagine it doesn’t work so much in a phone for a few reasons. Phones are a lot smaller and internal space is more precious, so user level connectors would take up a lot of room. Phones are some of the most abused electronics out there since we handle them nearly constantly, so ideally they’d be carved out of solid granite. We’re talking about attaching larger overall pieces of the device together with a phone, instead of clipping a module in you’re talking about attaching a quarter of the device. And, mostly, no one was really asking for that kind of functionality in a phone.
I was about to say you could take the top third out of “Texas” and label it “Wisconsin” or “Ohio”
I mean I’ve seen worse “The US according to foreigners” maps. At least all of those regions contain the states their named for.
Or a first, or a third.
A unique feature of the Framework laptop is the reconfigurable port system. Where many laptops these days just have some USB-C ports around the edges and if you need to plug something different in you need a dongle, Framework has these little cutouts in the frame that port modules snap into. They’re basically dongles you can install into the chassis. You can equip the laptop with whatever ports you want wherever you want, or change them out on the fly. I kinda like the fact you can leave them attached to the laptop.
Not long ago I went to Burger King for a burger at 10AM and they were only serving their breakfast menu.
There’s that picture of an American Indian man wearing a “Caucasians” shirt floating around the internet, and every time I see it I can’t help but laugh. Edit yeah someone has already posted it in this thread.
Also, do the Minnesota Vikings count?
Hey now, they used the indefinite article. The pilot typed a dildo and not their dildo.
The historic main street in my town, the one they’ve bouged up with brown street signs on black posts rather than the standard DOT green signs on galvanized poles, there’s like 10 or 12 storefronts down there that play host to an endless list of short lived businesses practically all run by women in their mid-40s with nothing to do. Yoga studios, antique stores, clothing boutiques, crepe restaurants, tea shops, basically none last two years.
Oregon Trail II for Windows 95 was amazingly detailed. You could actually change routes and end up in several other locations, and it would sometimes simulate special events for the particular route you take. For example, if you try to cross the Donner Pass in 1846 you get stuck in the snow for months.
The thing about realizing it in a 3D game engine is it’s a game about walking a thousand miles. In any implementation of Oregon Trail you see the oxen take three steps and that’s a day gone by without incident. If anything it’d be a hilarious troll to make people walk the entire length of the trail.
I think my favorite thing bar none about the entire Tomb Raider thing is this chick who did Lara Croft cosplay that was…well, look:
It’s a pretty good job on the costume, with one very funny joke built in.
Memes cant! I like it.