Chickenf662 said it best. Too many factors. Hdd typically dies first, replace it with ssd if not already done. Make sure you clear out the vents/fans to keep temps low, heat kills everything.

Do you have an exact model of the laptop? Knowing the exact model helps with estimating since there's factors outside of the general specs for how long a computer will last.

Bout tree fiddy

HP, 10yrs old laptop. i3 5th gen. Ram: 12 Running Debian. Minimum load. Just needs to run

It is running 8hrs a day for the last 5yrs as my primary laptop

There's so many more factors that go into that it's kind of hard to answer without more information. What's the model of laptop, what are you going to be running on it, do you expect there to be a lot of traffic/computation done on it? Also any answer is going to be at best an educated guess since it's impossible to know exactly when a computer is going to catastrophically fail.

lesssgooooo!

At least this time around they scaled back instead of doubling down on marketing.
Progress???

• But what if we FORCE them to use it??

The problem is that it's a truly shitty implementation because it can't actually do anything. It will tell you how to do things, but it won't actually do a task you would think it's suited for.

I've been tasked with getting more copilot automation integrated at my job. After a bunch of research on security, governance, app Lifecycle, and the complexities to get that setup properly, I brought pages of notes to the manager in charge. I expressed how expensive it is, how the product is awful out of the box, and how we don't have any defined use cases. She asked me if it's so complicated and expensive, how are other companies doing it. I told her I don't think there are many companies that have really gone in on agentic. I think 99% of use cases is people using copilot as a search engine. I'm going to be sharing this article even if it's filled with bias.

It kind of reminds me of some kinds of Christians that believe people will convert if they just tell people about Jesus. As if we've never heard of Jesus and the Bible before. We know. We just don't believe.

When copilot was added to my work computer and we got a big email announcement I wanted to see what it would say about some pointed questions about our industry, but in the end I gave up because it failed to even work enough to see what weird shit it would say

I want a local only AI where my research about breast size doesn't end up in the wrong hands.

They should add it to TVs with no way to disable it and no consent

My favourite part about the price of Office going up is that there is an option to NOT have AI and pay the old price, but they didn’t tell anyone about that, and just jacked up the price.

In Australia they got caught and had to send out an email to give everyone the option to switch back and receive a refund.

In what feels like their last petty act of revenge, that refund was made in seperate ~$5AUD ($3.30USD) payments for every month that they had lied to their customers. Like a disgruntled guy paying his parking ticket in pennies. I received a dozen identical miniscule payments in one day, and could feel the unsaid “fuck you” from MS. The sentiment is mutual.

They could have even just put AI code/options in, and left it opt-in, so that people that wanted to use it could and those of us who don't wouldn't have to constantly fight it. Instead they forced it on all of us, and even had the gall to raise the price of office claiming that is because AI is in there. They create the perfect one-two punch for us all to hate it, even those that may have been just neutral before

They could have saved so much time, money, and reputation if they had just listened when absolutely everyone told them to fuck right off with that "AI" bullshit. No one wants it, no one needs it, no one likes it. On the other hand the healthy bump in linux market share is a nice trend I hope to see continue.

This is the way. Tell ‘em where to stick it.

"Build it and they will come" indeed.

Yes 🖕 you and 🖕 your AI integrations, Microsoft.

This makes me happy!

Can't seem to find any info on whether it's a milled body like the fairphone 4.

I think something like this pretty much cannot exist without pushback. There's a reason why the high-level definitions at the start of articles are so jargon-laden, namely that experts want to get the definitions precise. Those same experts will almost necessarily puke, if you just take the jargon out.

And while it is typically possible to write a explanation without jargon, this takes a super expert to have it still be precise.
Maybe they could give the "Simple English" more of a spotlight instead, so those super experts write more of those.

Bingo