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60 FPS Doesn't Do It For Me Anymore

Hardware Gamedev

2 months ago 121.2K views 0 shares

60 FPS Doesn't Do It For Me Anymore

First, you're happy with 240 FPS. Then suddenly, it's not enough. The refresh rate addiction is real, folks. Once you've tasted that buttery smooth gameplay, there's no going back to the stuttery peasantry of lower framerates. Your bank account weeps silently as you justify "just one more" hardware upgrade for those precious extra frames that nobody else can even see. But you can see them... you swear you can.

When You Don't Let Your 30 Year Old ThinkPad Die

Linux Hardware Programming

2 months ago 129.8K views 0 shares

When You Don't Let Your 30 Year Old ThinkPad Die

The ancient ThinkPad begging for sweet release while its obsessive owner keeps upgrading it with new SSDs and RAM modules for the 47th time. That battered keyboard has typed enough lines of Perl to deserve retirement, but no—you've installed Linux on it again and keep bragging about how "they don't make them like this anymore." Meanwhile, the poor machine's fan sounds like a jet engine and the battery lasts exactly 12 minutes, but you're still convinced it's superior to any modern ultrabook. The relationship is basically tech Stockholm syndrome at this point.