Re: Freed from Nvidia

Joel wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

Xavier Dominica <XD@gnulinux.rocks> wrote:

On Sat, 2 Nov 2024 21:38:48 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
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Perhaps, but I always need something portable whereas I have little to
no need for a stationary computer nowadays.

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You have no need for a brain as well.
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I have already stated many times but I will state yet again
that all those who are content with laptops are not doing serious
computing work but only some pitiful derogation thereof.

Silly-assed.

Essentially speaking, laptops are for women (pussies) and not men.

Silly-assed.

The case us closed.

His silly-assed mind is closed.

I like having a full desktop setup, with keyboard, mouse, monitor,
speakers, yada yada, but it is useful to have a laptop, to have
comparable power in a portable device, you're just a stupid person,
who can't put yourself in someone else's shoes for two fucking
seconds, it's no wonder you run your ridiculous Xeon-CPU "Linux from
scratch" machine, with no real interface to speak of, no modern Web
browser, you're just retarded.  You need to kill yourself.

My old ASUS laptop served for a long time as my "desktop" box. It's more
powerful and much quieter than the box computer I have in cold storage in the
attic.  It has one connection to a USB hub to provide mouse, keyboard, scanner,
printer (well, my current printer is a wireless Brother), a tiny Behringer USB
audio box that feeds the small speakers, and a few MIDI controllers.
The network connection is wired, and it had two monitors.

Then I bought a mini PC, and I moved the network, the monitors, and the USB hub
to it. So it's an equivalent desktop setup and basically as fast as the old
laptop.

The ASUS is still there, closed but powered on, underneather the desk so that I
can shell into it when needed.

I'm typing this on a 14" Lenovo Flex while sitting in the living room watching
teevee with the cat in my lap, shelled into the mini PC where I'm using
slrn. Very comfy!

--
A hard-luck actor who appeared in one coloossal disaster after another
finally got a break, a broken leg to be exact.  Someone pointed out that it's
the first time the poor fellow's been in the same cast for more than a week.