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   kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 00:48:58 JST kaia
   oooh 64GB RAM _laptop_ was the recommendation for students? I accidentally brought my Lenovo ThinkStation Xeon 4.00GHz 6-Core 128GB DDR4 Workstation
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 00:51:18 JST Phantasm

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     @kaia I think it's actually insane for students to buy these high-end laptops and force them to take them to uni. They should have classrooms equipped with workstations that can deal with the workload at uni/school.
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     FWC (fwc@0.5dollah.click)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 00:51:50 JST FWC

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     @kaia That's a fucking sexy computer

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     Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem: (tk@bbs.kawa-kun.com)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 00:52:23 JST Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem:

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     @kaia Every computer is portable if you provide a power supply, a display, input devices, and a way to move it all around. :blobfoxgooglytrash:
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     john paul grips (grips@cawfee.club)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 00:55:26 JST john paul grips

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     @phnt @kaia I did two entire semesters with a 1.6GHz Celeron netbook in 2017-18. it was fine
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     monkee :fairydust: (monkee@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 00:55:35 JST monkee :fairydust:

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     @kaia 2 Slots for external drives? That's a Unicorn these days! :yayblob:

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     monkee :fairydust: (monkee@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 00:57:52 JST monkee :fairydust:

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     • Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem:

     @tk @kaia Just get a Strap 😂

     Someone remember the days when you lugged around your whole ass Tower to go play with friends?

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     kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 00:58:10 JST kaia

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     @fwc I love the design of the case. reminds me of the computers my dad had when I was smol
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     aZa (aza1905@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 00:58:45 JST aZa

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     @kaia tax writeoff!

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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 00:59:10 JST Phantasm

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     @fwc @kaia IBM knows how to make a pretty computer and Lenovo just kept it. The red accent on black looks really good.
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     Nicholas Conrad (nicholas@aklp.club)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 01:00:06 JST Nicholas Conrad

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     Academia should never have pivoted from mainframe computing. Centralized, managed, secure, and a stable, standardized environment for all students. You should only ever need your own pc for limewire and counterstrike.

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     FWC (fwc@0.5dollah.click)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 01:10:17 JST FWC

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     @kaia Yes! Reminds me of old school computers. Plus, those specs are very nice

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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 01:14:42 JST Phantasm

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     @nicholas @kaia That said, I know a high-school that recently tried that approach with a VM server running VMWare's hypervisor with few Quadro GPUs. It could barely handle one classroom using MS Office and web browsers. The latency in rotating views in Solidworks (parametric 3D cad) was seconds. And it took 10 minutes for Solidworks to start.
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     Protoss (cyrillic@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 02:11:57 JST Protoss

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     @grips @kaia @phnt I am presently enrolled with a 2.6GHz laptop, I can't use IDEs or do dynamic programming for moderate problem sizes but it works well for real stuff.
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