taizou @lion@computerfairi.es

@Ninji TFL's journey planner API legit used to return "Fussweg" as the mode of transport if the route involved walking

@Triplefox tbh i'm avoiding refurbished this time based on past experiences, my last couple of laptops were refurbished and while i did end up with some decent bargains, each time the first unit they sent me had some fault and i had to send it back. with the second one it happened twice! so i haven't had a very good hit rate with refurbs really, would rather avoid the hassle

Please don't say that

i am fully open to recommendations at this point before i lose my mind. i'm looking for something 15-16 inches that weighs less than 2kg and has decent enough specs, good screen and good sound

i doubt i'll do much gaming on it so it doesnt need a banger gpu but i want it to be good for everything else & be reasonably future proof

also most retailers filtering options are shit and useless. sometimes they don't work at all. often they filter out products that actually do match your criteria but the specs weren't entered properly.
and sometimes you get stuff like this. how in the hell is 8"-15.6" a useful category for anything

ok the main conclusion i have reached after much research is that all laptops suck ass in one way or another totally unrelated to the headline specs

too heavy? fan too loud? speakers bad? runs too hot? pick one, or maybe two, or three

i really wish retailers had a "filter by weight" option for these things. it's just as important for me as anything else tbh. i want my portable computer to be portable

@Rairii I mean yeah it's not gonna be anything that's impossible to get rid of. it just gives me bad vibes lol

I want one with 32GB of RAM and not have to pay a million billion pounds for it and also not have it be some gaming behemoth that weighs more than a full grown adult. is that too much to ask

MSI has these new ones that seem relatively good value for the specs they have but they're branded as "AI Studio" and come with all kinds of preloaded "AI" bollocks which is just putting me right off from the start

Laptops are too fucking expensive

i'm getting a lot of "this item is not available in your location" on aliexpress lately. but if i set my location to the EU or US they show up fine. so it's just a UK thing. this fucking country

i don't know. i'm gay but i'm not very good at it