• kameecoding@lemmy.worldEnglish
      42133·
      2 months ago

      Yeah, now he can work all day on battery instead of having to carry around a charger because the shitty ass laptop is out of battery in 2 hours somehow, depite being much slower than the macbook

          • nagaram@startrek.website
            316·
            2 months ago

            Just saying, if you had spent as much on a laptop as you did on a MacBook, you would get a full work days of battery.

            It’s the same failure point apple fans have about Android. Yeah there are cheap androids. They suck, but also they cost$100-$200 new. What’s apples offering in that price range?

            • vala@lemmy.world
              156·
              2 months ago

              Realistically with the new apple M-series stuff this is just not the case. The battery life is absolutely nuts. Especially compared to high end Linux laptops.

              Source: forced to use apple for work

              • datelmd5sum@lemmy.world
                15·
                2 months ago

                The new Snapdragon laptops are getting 15h+ of battery life, which is a couple of hours less than the new Macs (macs have bigger batteries) in the same benchmarks. The next gen Ryzen AI 300 Omnibook is said to have 20h+… but why do people want so much out of their battery? I’ve only used laptops for work and I can’t remember being more than a couple of hours at a time outside a dock.

                • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
                  2·
                  2 months ago

                  Do any of the Snapdragon laptops not suck? I haven’t used any of them, but I’m looking for:

                  • high quality keyboard - I love my ThinkPad E495’s keyboard (which is a bit worse than my old T440), but everything seems to use really short travel keys these days (and my 2019 Macbook Pro for work absolutely sucks in the keyboard dept)
                  • physical mouse buttons - I love my ThinkPad’s TrackPoint + middle mouse combo, it’s great for scrolling through documents
                  • comfortable keyboard layout - I like the position of page up/down, home, end, etc on my ThinkPad, but most laptops suck with key placement

                  I’m excited to get a new Macbook Pro next year (our company has a 4-year replacement cycle), mostly for better CPU performance (my coworker’s M1 runs our tests in 1/4 the time vs my Intel Macbook Pro) and battery life (mine frequently dies in meetings), but there’s no way I’m buying one for myself. So I’m looking for an alternative.

                  I’d really like a Framework, but it doesn’t have physical mouse buttons (very strong preference) or a TrackPoint (I can budge here), and the keyboard layout looks kind of crappy. The best so far seems to be the ThinkPad T14s Gen 6, but I’m really trying to get away from ThinkPad due to their horrendous Motorola bootloader unlock policy (i.e. you agree to never resell your device, and your warranty is void), and if that’s the direction their company is going, I would prefer to avoid them, and it’s kind of expensive (starts at $1275). The rest that I’ve seen seem to have crappy keyboards and no mouse buttons.

              • nagaram@startrek.website
                3·
                2 months ago

                It’s insane. I really want one for that reason, but ThinkPad with a ugreen 145 Watt battery bank gives me 16 hours of use. That’s all waking hours.

                It’s hard to justify spending 3x as much on a single laptop just for that kind of battery life.

              • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                63·
                2 months ago

                the battery life of machines with hot swapable batteries is arguably better considering you can hot swap them forever. And with more modern hardware, they’re a lot more power efficient so you could get a ton of work done on a handful of batts

                source: i understand how hardware works.

                • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
                  6·
                  2 months ago

                  Yeah, but you have to carry batteries around.

                  I’m not a fan of Apple either, but you have to admit they’ve got the ultra portable laptop figured out.

              • nagaram@startrek.website
                41·
                2 months ago

                I have done a full 8 hours of work on my Dell Latitude 5440 before on battery. I put it in bat saver and it lasted me the whole work day.

                But I re cognize something: why would I need to do that?

                I sat a desk or my couch all day both of which had a convenient outlet. There was no point in doing that all on bat. Yeah it’s impressive to have a crazy long battery life and is why I wanta MacBook for coffee shop coding days, but again, there’s almost guaranteed to be convenient outlets and I own a 145Watt battery bank if needed. Thus my $150 ThinkPad E495 has been reaching 16+ hours of use without needing a wall wart.

                Maybe your use case is different but mine where I’m certainly going to be stationary enough to use a plug or a battery bank means I can’t justify the apple tax. Plenty of people have done this calculation hence why Apple still doesn’t have an appreciable enterprise market share let alone a competitive one.

          • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
            81·
            2 months ago

            Facts about why you should pay more to an unethical company for a use case that doesn’t exist smells like a sales pitch to me.

            Where are you going to work on your computer for 16 hours straight without access to a wall outlet?

            • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
              11·
              2 months ago

              Uh, work? Sometimes I’m in meetings all day in different rooms at my company, and I really don’t like bringing my charger around. So that’s 8 hours, and I’ll be running a lot of stuff in the background, which absolutely drains my battery life.

              I also like using my laptop at airports when traveling, and finding a charger can be a royal pain. I’ve had multiple occasions when my laptop battery died and I just couldn’t use it, and I get something like 3 hours battery life (which is pretty decent for a laptop).

              I also WFH 3x/week, so it’s not uncommon for me to work from the couch or walk around the house when on boring calls all day.

              I’m plugged in most of the time most days, but exceptions do happen, and it’s nice to not have to worry about battery life. I hope this anecdote helps.

              • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
                2·
                2 months ago

                Oh! Oh ho no, boohoo! Mr. Double-Shift-Back-to-Back isn’t able to carry a charger to use at the 176 outlets in his building.

                Sounds like you don’t need a good PC, you need a union.

                • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
                  1·
                  2 months ago

                  I mean, I can and do carry my charger, I just prefer not to. I have needed to leave a meeting to go fetch a charger, as have my coworkers, which is disruptive. Having >8 hours battery life would mean I would never need to think about the battery any more, I could just use the laptop all day and plug it in at night, just like my phone.

            • kameecoding@lemmy.worldEnglish
              17·
              2 months ago

              Ah yes, unethical company, as opposed to an Ethical company like who? Asus who was just caught overcharging their customers on RMAs?

              HP? The most evil printer manufacturer on the planet?

              Keep in mind my first choice, Framework did not sell in my country at the time, still might not.

              Not having to have battery anxiety is not a sales pitch, it’s just good stuff, if you’d have a software developer job, you could maybe understand

              And you also just betrayed this whole anti-apple shebang thats going on here, it’s about the money innit? If you can’t afford it, you need to come up with nonsensical reasons why apple bad, don’t worry, I used to do that too.

              • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
                61·
                2 months ago

                Lmao yessir Ima so poora can’t afford a machine that forces obsolescence every few years, made in a sweatshop, not allowed to repair, made a deal with ARM to kill off competition, walled garden designed, lobbies the governments, takes a picture of you every few seconds, preferred by the CCP machine.

                Oh gosh if only I could afford a new machine every 3 years from Apple but it costs approximately $70 per month oh no so expensive ohmagod how can we mere peasants?

                Listen dude you’re paying more to save a negligible amount on power, have a battery that lasts slightly longer than the competitors and much longer than anybody will ever need it to, and suffer much worse customer service. And you think its a status symbol or sign of wealth? You got scammed.

                • kameecoding@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  16·
                  2 months ago

                  Every 3 years? regular laptops maybe last that long, but I am pretty sure macs last a fair bit longer, I was still working on a 2015 model in 2020 without any issue, only reason I stopped is I had to give it back.

                  I will be using this one for at least 5 years if not longer.

                  have a battery that lasts slightly longer

                  slightly doing a bit of heavy fucking lifting there, lmao. try 2x,3x,easily 5x in some cases.

                  And you think its a status symbol or sign of wealth?

                  I don’t, not sure where you got that from, I just think most people hating on it do so because they can’t afford it, which seems to be case a lot.

                  You got scammed.

                  Whatever you need to tell yourself, lol.

      • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
        4313·
        2 months ago

        Oh wow thats so cool, Apple should introduce a way to trade in vital organs to make it more accessible to people of your capacity.

          • xantoxis@lemmy.world
            264·
            2 months ago

            Hey man, if you find yourself with a Very Serious Opinion after reading one of these, you should maybe say it out loud in a room by yourself instead of posting it as a comment. This has nothing to do with whether you’re right or not. Nobody wants Serious Opinions underneath their jokes, and you will be much happier when you learn this.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
        145·
        2 months ago

        Wow your comprehension on this subject is just profound. Really really clever. Your parents must be so proud. Their little guy, simping for a big powerful corporation.

        Go read up on the subject

      • Acters@lemmy.world
        11·
        2 months ago

        If you wanted this, you don’t need a dam apple laptop, but at the same time, the closest competitor is the new snapdragon laptops that are closer to having up to a week of battery life. Also, they are capable of running more than you can on an apple machine, albeit it is early progress in proper x86 emulation, and more productivity programs are starting to support it.

        So, no, you are NOT forced to make a decision to get a MacBook and the price gouging you experience.

        Even then, picking a device for your use case is extremely important. I know many people who can survive with lower powered devices as they only use it for web browsing or documents like Excel or Word. Which an apple device would work well for but seriously is complete overkill and overpriced for.

    • ieatmeat@lemmy.world
      105·
      2 months ago

      In the beginning when you explore one of the starting areas you can encounter a prostitute who offers herself for cheap. If you agree, she tells you to follow her into some backroom. However, there is a giant dude waiting inside who knocks you unconscious and takes all your money (it’s scripted, you can’t escape this fate once you enter the backroom).

  • SSTF@lemmy.world
    27·
    2 months ago

    I like games that give you a little slap upside the head for being stupid. All things considered, losing the paltry amount of early game currency in Metro is getting off pretty light compared to some games.

    • Doxin@pawb.social
      15·
      2 months ago

      In Stray you can put a paper bag on your head. It inverts your controls for a bit. I liked that.

  • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
    1417·
    2 months ago

    That sounds like a dick move on the part of the developers, I’d wonder if I really want to keep playing the game after that.

  • Limonene@lemmy.world
    913·
    2 months ago

    I never saw that character in the game, but there are dozens of other reasons to hate Metro 2033.

      • addie@feddit.uk
        151·
        2 months ago

        I quite liked all the people complaining about ‘unrealistic’ Russian accents, and every single character in the game is voiced by a native speaker. Many lols. Bit like people complaining about Yvonne Strahovski’s ‘phoney’ Australian accent playing Miranda in Mass Effect.

        • GoodEye8@lemm.eeEnglish
          121·
          2 months ago

          Maybe you’re mixing up the Russian voice actors with the English voice actors. Some of the English voice actors originated from the USSR but most of them were American and they did some weird Russian accent thing. I guess that would be the criticism, but if someone complains about unrealistic Russian accents and you can replace them with actual Russian voice lines just use the Russian voice lines, they’re pretty good.

          With one exception of course. In Metro Exodus the character Sam is American and the Russian VA is supposed to do an American accent speaking Russian. That is the most jarring shit ever because it sounds exactly like it is, a Russian trying to do an American trying to speak Russian. They should’ve just gotten an American VA to read Russian and it would’ve sounded better.

        • Moah@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          41·
          2 months ago

          VAs are asked to exaggerate their accents on a regular basis. Don’t know if it’s the case in the example you mention but native speakers are not necessarily a guarantee of a realistic accents