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gbrown
·5 lat temu·discuss
I guess not, it says 180 on the back. Haven’t bothered to meter it under full load + charging though.

To be clear, I’m skeptical of pushing that much power over USBC.
gbrown
·5 lat temu·discuss
Most of these gaming laptops likely don’t; they’re really not intended to be used for heavy gaming while on battery, because the battery can’t support the discharge rate needed by a high end GPU.
gbrown
·5 lat temu·discuss
No thanks, I’ll keep my gaming laptop. Far more portable than a desktop, lots of compute overhead, and I can use it for games. At home it’s basically a desktop with external keyboard and monitors.

Oh yeah, and when it’s not being used with the dedicated graphics card, it gets 6-9 hours of battery life.

Oh, almost forgot - it’s lighter and about the same size as my 2012 13” MBP.
gbrown
·5 lat temu·discuss
What’s the issue with newer EdgeOS? I thought the cloud crap could be disabled.
gbrown
·7 lat temu·discuss
You don't - you compare it to "standard of care" (antidepressants, CBT, etc.).

If we can compare an inferior treatment to placebo, and we can compare a breakthrough treatment to this established standard, we can evaluate the new treatment.
gbrown
·7 lat temu·discuss
I'm having trouble visualizing how this would be stable - from their reference frame (orbiting a Lagrange point), the pressure is coming unidirectionally. They'd be accelerated in one direction constantly, which seems like it couldn't possibly be stable.
gbrown
·7 lat temu·discuss
The carbon cost of manufacture and transport seems like it would absolutely dwarf any benefit to such a scheme.
gbrown
·7 lat temu·discuss
Wouldn't solar radiation pressure blow them all over the place?
gbrown
·8 lat temu·discuss
Completely agree - it's a classic prisoners dilemma, and the solution is to regulate cooperation.
gbrown
·9 lat temu·discuss
Also, there's no reason to suspect that it damaged only economically important plants. Nearby wildlife would plausibly be impacted.