Finally. Hopefully removed from Civ V as well.

Except this time the DLC scales so being late/post game doesn’t even save you

Ok then. I’ll echo what some others are saying about 16GB being sufficient. If you were in engineering every now and then it’s not enough but I don’t think its the case for comp sci. I’d leave the door open and get one in which you can upgrade the RAM though.

One thing to look out for is CPU performance. I find the laptop CPU market is a disaster right now in which you really don’t know what you’ll get. LTT has a recent video on the topic. For most courses it won’t actually matter that much. Some examples of the ones where it could make a difference are numerical linear algebra courses, machine learning (classical, not neural networks), and computer vision (again, classical). In some of these extra RAM might also be helpful but I’d prioritize a better CPU over the RAM. You may look at CPU benchmarks to get an idea of their performance.

In terms of GPU… I don’t think you’ll get anything capable enough for training neural networks at this price point, which is the only thing you may need it for in comp sci. But it’ll help with light gaming (but I imagine integrated graphics is good enough for minecraft these days—but dont quote me on that).

Also lastly, I would still recommend finding something with decent Linux support even if you dont want to use it (yet), you may choose to install it down the line. My Dell XPS/Precision has pretty poor linux support with buggy trackpad issues which has caused issues for me in the past. Many comp sci students end up switching to Linux/dual booting for a good reason.

I expect to be able to code in it

What kind of student? Computer science? Engineering?

Great read. Even in STEM research as a grad student I’m very tired of every saying “let’s try machine learning on this problem” to get something that works marginally better than some conventional models but requiring huge amounts of computation and data.

I’ve used it a long time now. I find it to have much more relevant results than DDG did last time I tried.

Kodi + RealDebrid

Notably, however, the EU Commission is on Mastodon. Would be great if a lot of the companies suspending their ads would also move over to Mastodon even if not fully.

https://social.network.europa.eu/@EU_Commission

Yeah it’s a bit awkward, but infuriating? Even mildly infuriating is a stretch.

I dont see the problem

Always GOG. While I’ve loved Steam for years and still do, I’d rather have a stronger ownership over my games.

Love Sumantra so much. When I’ve had to do Linux installs, the lack of Sumantra was my biggest disappointment.