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My laptop is the 2019 version of Acer Nitro 5, and it's been slowing down and fucking up on me since 2023. I'm considering to upgrade to a custom built desktop sometime in 2025 or even later if my laptop doesn't die by then. I'm also paranoid that the solar flares in mid 2025 might cause a Carrington level event and send us back to the early industrial age, so that's also why I'm waiting.

But I want my money's worth and also due to my demanding uses - gaming, content creation, machine learning, and programming, I need something that's at least higher mid range. I don't necessarily need a workstation with parts like Xeon/Epyc and A-Series RTX/Radeon Pro with 1TB RAM and 24TB storage, but I'd want to aim for at least Core Ultra 7/Ryzen 7 X3D and RTX XX80/RX X800 XT with 128GB RAM and 8TB storage.

So please don't recommend anything as typical Core Ultra 5/Ryzen 5 and RTX XX60/RX X600 XT with 32GB RAM and 4TB storage because I won't be completely blown away. I want the gap to be even bigger when I upgraded from my potato Lenovo IdeaPad laptop with AMD A10 APU, Radeon R5 iGPU, 12GB RAM (4+8), and 128GB SSD to my current laptop with i5 9300H, GTX 1050 3GB, 16GB RAM (2x8), and 500GB SSD.

Yes I should be asking this in the official AWS forums, but nobody responds to most questions and even when they do, the advice isn't even helpful RIP. IAM is the traditional way of setting permissions to users in the admin's company/organization but is more complex and less secure. Identity Center is the newer offshoot that is more secure and less complex, but also more streamlined and is what AWS recommends. Now obviously there's no confirmation but I'm not surprised if one day AWS deprecates IAM and only Identity Center remains.

and what does this say about you IYO?

(I have not played wow so forgive me on my lack of lingo)?

Wow =World of Warcraft

Rs = Runescape

Osrs = old school Runescape

P2P = Pay to play

F2P = free to play

My Experience is that I had played OSRS and a bit of the RS3. But I have not played these mmorpg in like in a decade.

(Please dont say it depends, I am asking regards as wholistic society perspective and then personal perspective.) And in Order if you can. from easiest to hardest for example.

I mean if anyone ever decides they want to just give up social media altogether, who do you think is more likely to come to that decision? Men or women?

Are a lot of you also redditors too?

Often times it'll just force hibernate and randomly my gaming mouse's dongle will disconnect sometimes. Other times the laptop doesn't force hibernate and it just keeps depleting until it dies, and then I have to recharge and power back my laptop. And then we get instances like today where the laptop refuses to restart properly and I get a black screen after force shutdown and booting it back up, along with another black screen once I make it past log-in. Yes I've tried to restart File Explorer and waiting for the UI to hopefully come back, but it doesn't unless I reboot again and again.

Sure, it's sort of my fault since I've used this laptop for almost 4 years now, and I should be recharging it much earlier before this shit happens; what isn't my fault is what happens after if I forget or if Windows fails to force hibernate itself. I often have to restart multiple times to make the black screen and other booting/restarting issues go away, and this has happened with the default HDD and the new SSD that both served as booting drives. I've reinstalled Windows 10 once due to me smashing the HDD (I always had anger issues with tech, especially those that are physically very fragile), and I might have to reinstall Windows 10 again.

I suspect it's got something to do with either Windows 10 and/or the motherboard being mediocre because Acer loves to cut corners to offer higher specs at a lower price (I believe Dell and HP do the same). I'm considering to always have my laptop plugged in at all times now, unless I absolutely need it to be used away from an outlet, since even when I set everything and use my laptop as efficiently as possible, the battery life is only 4 hours max. Back then my laptop used to easily last 6-8 hours but I'd say since the spring I don't know wtf happened that caused the battery to always give me less than 5 hours.