I don’t have any training or schooling in it, at all, I just enjoy computers since I was young 🤷‍♂️

Not sure why you’re getting downvoted.

Life sucks, we’re all screwed up in some way or another. But just saying “well that’s how I am now” is the standard approach these days, and it only perpetuates the problem.

I’m still working my way through Red Rising. I’m in book 5, Dark Age. Then I’ll still have the 6th book, and a 7th should be it this year or so I hear.

The first book is amazing, the next two are still really good.

The fourth I really didn’t like at first, since the whole style of writing changes to the viewpoint of multiple characters. But by the time I was halfway through it I was starting to appreciate it a lot more. Now that I’m 2/3 through the fifth book, I’m looking forward to hearing the different perspectives.

Still, there are times when it’s a slog. But I just put it down for a few days and then I’m roped back in.

Also the audio book version keeps changing voice actors between books, and they aren’t ok following the same pronunciation of some names, and even some words are just straight up mispronounced. Which is annoying.

Worse yet, two of the actors really struggle with proper sense stress and inflection. It’s sometimes confusing whether a character is speaking or thinking/narrating, or even whether an ACTION is being described. It’s hard to explain, but occasionally jarring. They’re getting better as the books go on though. I think they might be cold reading it 🤷‍♂️

I got my framework about a year ago, before the tariffs got crazy, and well before ram got crazy (I put 96 gigs in it to play with AI workloads, and for the lulz).

My plan is to ride this thing until it starts showing its age. Which I imagine will be another 3 or 4 years? Only then can I comment on my actual desire and commitment to upgrading it.

Until then, I’m just banking on the fact that the company will a) live. And b) still have parts for my machine.

I do appreciate what they’re doing, and I like my machine now.

There are definitely people out there who upgrade super frequently, who knows, maybe I’ll be one of them in 1 or 2 years instead of 3 or 4. Hard to say what life will look like then, the way things go these days.

That’s his point. It’s similar to framework, but not the same.

Easy repairability is great, truly.

But framework offers more than that, easy repairability AND upgradability, because they offer new upgraded parts with the same compatibility as the old ones, so you can just drop them in.

Lenovo is not yet doing that. Which is fine. Just a noteworthy difference.

I am an avid Linux user and sharer of ISOs, never had a lick of trouble on 30/10.

10/1.5 was tough but doable.

1.5/300k was impossible.

Funny how perspective changes things.

Growing up we had dialup. Around 2009 we got 1.5mbps down, something like 300kbps up. DSL, for 8 people.

We had that until… 2014? 2016? Then we got 10/1.5, mbps, down/up respectively.

We had that until 2022 ish, when we got 30/10. And I started self hosting with ease, plenty of bandwidth for myself and my immediate family’s needs.

Only last year, 2025, did we finally strike gold and get access to fiber. 8000/8000 available, but it’s spendy.

I’m used to living with significantly less, so I opted for the lowest tier, 300/300.

I feel like I’m legitimately living in the future right now, so fast.

I feel for everyone who is stuck with slow Internet. But it’s all perspective. And from my perspective, 20 up is plenty for most things your average person wants to do. More is always better, obviously. But even then, you don’t need gargantuan pipes to self host.

I will say, these days, anything less than 10/10 is criminal. 20/20 is slow but manageable. 30/30 is more than most normal people realistically need, though obviously, again, more is always better 🤷‍♂️

Way more than dozens, certainly

That’s a fair assessment.

IDK man, I bought a 10 pack of cheap thumb drives on Amazon a year ago, just big enough for giving to friends full of files or installing Linux or whatever. They were microcenter brand… Not high quality.

The other day I used the last two, took them to work. Went to buy another pack? More than double the price I paid last week.

Yeah yeah it’s flash, not HDDs. I don’t think it matters. Everyone is riding the “computer get more expensive” train. And once the price goes up, it doesn’t come back down.

We’re boned.

My TV is a 50" I think? 1080p from 2013. It was cheap then, and it’s worth nothing now, on the market. But it works fine.

The backlight is evenly distributed, which is good, that’s a pet peeve of mine. But otherwise it’s unremarkable.

Honestly, I’d really like to try those new HDR TVs, a mini LED or OLED or something. But I just can’t justify it. Why? Because the TV I have, works fine 🤷‍♂️

If it magically died tomorrow, I’d upgrade. But I definitely don’t need 8k. Heck I don’t need 4k. I barely watch any content at 1080, it’s mostly 720 🤷‍♂️