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ok /g/, I'll give you a chance to convince me to switch from windows to linux.
If I play gaymes, care about battery life and easy to use interface, why would I do that?

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How did it come to this?

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What are some good games for an x220?

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desktop thread uwu

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Hello. I'm a yuropoor and in my country at least, Apple is not very popular (except for iPhone - those are very popular).

Macs are perceived as expensive toys for less technical people. One thing I never understood about this whole Mac thing is, though, why do some people who are highly technical, almost geniuses (like the people working at the most advanced artificial intelligence company, DeepMind) - insist on using Macs?

Do you think such people keep macOS or install something else on it?

Seriously I have seen so many pictures of genius scientists, innovators, AI researchers with PhDs in math and compSci always using Macs. What gives?

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This icon layout confuses, and enrages the Applel baby.

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how do i avoid a motion detector?

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which one is better for storing porn and staff

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Redpill me on powerline adapters

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Left my bag unattended at an event. Had my HDD wrapped inside the bag. Someone stole it apparently, because the HDD is missing from the bag. Hadn't wiped it, it's a win 8 image (C:\, D:\).
How fucked am I?

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If you want help:
>Assemble your parts list
https://pcpartpicker.com/
>State the budget for your build (and country if not the USA)
>List games/software you use often, as well as your monitor resolution + refresh rate
>Clarify your goal for build improvements: lower price or improved specs?
How to assemble a PC, select components & more (kind of outdated)
https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php?title=Build_a_PC

CPUs:
No i5 unless discounted
>G4560/G4600 - Budget builds (<$500)
>R5 1400 - Cheapest quad core you can get (Ryzen 3 soon)
>R5 1500x - Good but up to 1600 if you can
>R5 1600 - Best value for higher fps gaming / mixed usage; 1600x if you want higher stock clocks
>i7 7700k - Only for 144hz
>R7/Used Xeon/Threadripper - Compute/Multitask/VM/mixed use; Not for just gaming

GPUs:
Coin miners have driven price up and stock down, waiting to buy a GPU might be wiser
>Integrated CPU Graphics - Desktop stuff and very light games
>GTX 1050(Ti) - Lower end budget cards, drop settings on newer games, RX560 beaten by both
>RX570 - 1080p@60~hz maxed, running most maxed older games at 100~Hz
>RX580 and GTX1060 6GB - 1080p@80hz maxed, 1440p@60hz at lower settings; RX580 better in newer games
>GTX 1070 - 1080p@130hz /1440p@60hz at high
>GTX 1080 - 1080p@144hz / 1440p@60hz maxed, 4k@60hz in a few games; Probably the highest end card you need for 1080p/1440p
>GTX 1080Ti - 1440p@144hz and 4k@60hz maxed/high in many games

RAM:
>Check your Mobo QVL before buying any RAM
>Ryzen CPUs benefits a lot from high speed RAM

General:
ALWAYS LOOK AT PRODUCT REVIEWS!
Always consider an SSD. Try buying a large SSD for what you'd pay for your SSD+HDD combined, and add a HDD later
NVMe SSDs aren't for a faster OS boot, they're for productivity/scratch disk/VMs. NVMe and M.2 are not the same thing, M.2 is a form factor.
The Ryzen lineup comes with surprisingly good stock coolers. consider using them over any <$30 cooler.
Buying used is perfectly fine for budgets (PSU excluded)

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Explain how to use websites with paywalls such as the Financialtimes please

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Every portable media player (or smartphone etc) I've ever tried has had the same problem: the lowest volume setting is still louder than I want.

Up until now, my solution has been to use an extension cable with a volume wheel. But this has serious flaws:
* annoyingly long cable
* volume wheel gets changed by accident sometimes
* depending on the position of the volume wheel, one side of the headphones becomes noticably louder or quieter than the other, and it's annoying

What I want is just a simple small headphone plug with a couple of resistors. I had a look around and couldn't find anything like it. I tried making something like it myself but my soldering skills suck and it broke in a couple of days.

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Women are officially obsolete.

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AMD mobile phone chipsets when?
Since Intel bailed on mobile processors do you think we might see phones running AMD chipsets?