[–] 1 point 4 weeks ago*

no jet plane takeoff for my 2016 HP Envy laptop, the fan was the first thing to die (it thankfully doesn't get that hot, I installed Core Temp to track it)

Next was the battery, which got to where it wouldn't even last long enough to move from one power adapter to another. So I removed it and just use the laptop at a desk. Like a desktop. Like Mimi!

And, I suspect also like Mimi, I still use it every day.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 weeks ago*

    And the fascism in the US has a truer, more specific name: Nazism. Donald Trump is a Nazi, through and through. Hitler may be the one person he loves and admires more than himself.

    But world media is afraid to call Trump and his GOP Nazis, as if it is too far, when it's just the plain truth.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    K-Pop Demon Hunters was like that. Nobody but Netflix believed in it, and that's why there was barely any merchandise for its first Christmas. Companies would not get on board. Now stores are covered with stuff.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 months ago* (3 children)

    Nice art!

    I feel you. I've played video games almost all my life, but during a period of unemployment last year, I had to sell my PS5 and Switch (which I got during much better times) to pay a winter power bill. And consoles have only gotten more expensive since then, thanks to AI data centers monopolizing digital components. I did find a new job, but I'm making less money than ever, and can't save, I'm paycheck-to-paycheck. As for my PC, it's a mid-range Win10 laptop from 2016 that's barely holding on, it can't upgrade to Win11 and can only run the simplest games.

    So I'm now mostly priced out of a lifelong hobby. Can't play GTA6. No idea when I'll be able to play big new games again.

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