Let me challenge this idea just a little and suggest that people have lots of different reasons for living without a spouse or children. Some are unable to conceive, some are devoted to a religious order, some might be aromantic, but all are capable of leading lives full of purpose and meaning :)

@easlern Very large emphasis on *some.* Tradition exists because it is a local optimum that has survived through time.

Having a family doesn't make you enlightened either. Enlightened people realise everyone is different and what works for someone else or even the majority may not work for a particular individual. What yields fulfilment is the ability to be honest with yourself about who you are, what you want and then doing whatever makes it most likely you'll achieve those things. There are plenty of happy single people with no wife or kids and plenty of people in unhappy marriages and vice versa.

​@@justarthur1788 Nobody claimed that people who start a family are enlightened. You're attacking a windmill. What I'm pushing back against is the notion that people who don't have children have "come to the epiphany that they don't have to be normies following a script". Anyway, this particular form of hubris solves itself in one generation's time, so go right ahead.

I have not heard “foodie call” before lol😂

The webcam quality and clarity is terrible, ngl. You could probably have a standup without making your coworkers barf but it’s not a key feature. :) The trackpad is pretty nice, smooth plastic but it works just fine. I do get around 4-5 hours under load- I run 3 or 4 logins at a time, each with jetbrains IDEs open. I also have docker running, so I think your experience will be pretty similar to my own.

I believe they have a warranty! And they’re assembled in Colorado iirc, so I imagine system76 will work on them if you need something fixed

is it still working well??! do you still like it?

Yeah- 5 hours is sort of on the lower end. When I’m doing real day-to-day work on it. But this is on par with my Yoga 6, and I don’t remember the last time I used my charger while out and about. I don’t work in stretches that long. I think I need to recharge before the laptop does. 😆

That sounds awful! I’m not terribly surprised by your experience; the construction does not compare to other machines in this price range, like the surface or MacBook Air.

I have a thinkpad that literally had factory warranty for 10 years because they would give me the option every time it got close to expiring to add 2 more years for like 40$ so i kept doing it and literally still using that laptop warranty expired a week ago finally. Thinkpads are the best laptops when it comes to longevity. On top of that it was on the original battery with 98% of capacity left after 10 years. I had a wireless card go bad in a thinkpad one time they sent a guy to my house and he took it apart and looked and then said that because it was soldered to the board they had to do a board replacement, they literally just mailed me in a brand new laptop at no cost to me and said keep it and then carried my warranty over to that laptop i have had like 6 thinkpads.

Exactly, out of 8 laptops or so it would be nice to know which model specifically. Also, was your last machine a high end MacBook?

@@gmoney8975it is truly insane that apple still has the only good trackpad in the game after, what, 15 years?

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No

I think if I had to choose, I’d go with 4k for greater screen space. I think the higher refresh rate is great for gaming but I don’t do any on this guy.

I saw someone else complain about this issue. Maybe I should avoid it afterall. What would you suggest? Thinking of the XPS 13 Developer

It’s been a lot of fun to use! The 40GB of RAM has been awesome; I need a lot of it and this machine has all I need. I also love how light it is. The main drawback I’ve experienced is the arrow keys; I keep hitting page up and down while trying to move the cursor around my IDE. But it’s great overall and I use it as my daily machine for all the tasks I can accomplish on Linux.

This was $1000 used, at a local banjo center. Feels great, I would have paid that much for it without the fancy doodads

Thanks man! I gotta get some more lyrics and maybe I can finish it