Post AVUQfWRwbwZLUDdldw by james@pl.starnix.network
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 (DIR) Post #AVTX2fNdyigAPa5WXA by mario@hornyjail.pro
       2023-05-09T10:14:45.363229Z
       
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       People studying cogsci: >1.5k€ laptopsMe studying compsci: <200€ laptop:blobcatgoogly:
       
 (DIR) Post #AVTX6tr86HwOSttlrs by mario@hornyjail.pro
       2023-05-09T10:15:32.331560Z
       
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       Tbf I also got a 1.5k€ laptop nao but it's a worklaptop and not actually my propterty
       
 (DIR) Post #AVTXF6dwRQpYROdvTk by ahriboy@mk.absturztau.be
       2023-05-09T10:16:20.040Z
       
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       @mario@hornyjail.pro €200 laptop and then install Linux
       
 (DIR) Post #AVTXJZrJlB7QD621Hk by mario@hornyjail.pro
       2023-05-09T10:17:49.749332Z
       
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       @ahriboy desktop managers are bloat just have startx in your .profile :blobcatuwu:
       
 (DIR) Post #AVTXOteHbqlx2ETGme by errante@rot.gives
       2023-05-09T10:17:18.054636Z
       
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       @mario @ahriboy startx sucks its so badly written
       
 (DIR) Post #AVTXPNWsVwfthxEmPI by SuperDicq@minidisc.tokyo
       2023-05-09T10:18:49.981Z
       
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       @mario@hornyjail.pro When I was in university they gave us a minimum recommended spec sheet for laptops.Their spec sheet:i5 or i7 processor8GB RAMWindows or Mac OSMicrosoft OfficeMy actual laptop:Core2Duo4GB RAMGNU/LinuxLibreOffice
       
 (DIR) Post #AVTXTGg5vgFFcKP2jQ by errante@rot.gives
       2023-05-09T10:18:06.945818Z
       
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       @mario @ahriboy we are sx homies in this household
       
 (DIR) Post #AVTfHIyqLIeuurylO4 by cody@misskey.codingneko.com
       2023-05-09T10:26:10.788Z
       
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       @mario@hornyjail.pro gotta run those simulations on something...
       
 (DIR) Post #AVTfIQ8pCgdrPoBD1c by cristiioan@member.ro
       2023-05-09T10:18:14Z
       
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       @mario I spent 2.4k on my laptop. Was it worth it? Yes, every penny. Could I used an old thinkpad,?yes and it would have done everything I wanted. But having the power of this laptop is really great
       
 (DIR) Post #AVUQfWRwbwZLUDdldw by james@pl.starnix.network
       2023-05-09T20:38:03.260041Z
       
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       @SuperDicq @mario Were you able to use your laptop there with that low specs? (Of course that would be enough for what we do with Free Software, but the University may be running bloated websites and other software.)
       
 (DIR) Post #AVUSHn6dEQYO6SU23k by SuperDicq@minidisc.tokyo
       2023-05-09T20:56:10.922Z
       
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       @james@pl.starnix.network @mario@hornyjail.pro I have some interesting stories about using low spec hardware and free software only while surviving university.For example I had one class where we were supposed to make a videogame in Adobe Flash using ActionScript. Instead I made my game in Blender using Python and the Blender Game Engine (rip).This was around 2014 so Blender still ran completely fine on my X200, modern versions of Blender no longer work on my X200 unfortunately because it requires OpenGL 3.5 now.The teacher gave me a 9 out 10, the game I developed was excellent but he subtracted one point for not using Adobe Flash as instructed.Another example comes to mind with a data analysis class that I had. We were supposed to use some proprietary tool that I can't remember the name of that was used to generate graphs and charts from a mysql database.Instead of using whatever tool they wanted me to use I did my graphs and analysis tasks using, believe it or not, PhpMyAdmin. PhpMyAdmin actually has amazing tools to generate graphs and piecharts and stuff, it's really underutilized I think.Outside of proprietary stuff that doesn't run on GNU/Linux there was one class where my system's specs was the actual issue and not a freedom issue.I did a machine learning class where we were supposed to write a machine learning using the TensorFlow. Unfortunately the TensorFlow library doesn't run on my X200 as it does not support AVX CPU instructions (On Intel systems AVX got introduced in Sandy Bridge, on AMD it got introduced with Bulldozer). This wasn't a huge problem however as my server happens to be a Bulldozer CPU that does support AVX, so I simply trained my models using my server remotely instead.
       
 (DIR) Post #AVUa5hUP5UESqGLeQy by james@pl.starnix.network
       2023-05-09T22:23:37.627994Z
       
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       @SuperDicq @mario Interesting way of using Free Software, as well as your server in the case of specs. No wonder the box running cdrom, minidisc and jiyu is also your development platform.> This was around 2014 so Blender still ran completely fine on my X200, modern versions of Blender no longer work on my X200 unfortunately because it requires OpenGL 3.5 now.Can't you just use an older version of Blender, even if it doesn't have modern features?
       
 (DIR) Post #AVUaCw7Z5NkeFS7Ffk by SuperDicq@minidisc.tokyo
       2023-05-09T22:24:57.075Z
       
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       @james@pl.starnix.network @mario@hornyjail.pro Yes, I can use older versions of Blender indeed. I can't run new ones which is the unfortunate part.