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My boyfriend knows firsthand how bad of an influence I am. 
That's why he owns three copies of Gran Turismo 3.

I think that's perfectly fine. It's about how you feel and being comfortable in that. My gender is just a complicated knot of things.

And that's fine. As others have said, gender is what makes you feel most comfortable. It's complicated, but figuring yourself out is... liberating? From what I've heard from friends of mine who came out as non-binary or trans over the past couple years.

YOOOOO YOU CROSSDRESS
 
Yeah. Super fun. Can recommend.
 
Never at any point did I feel less male even when a friend couldn't recognize me in the pictures xD

Guess what made it out of the hell that's known by the name of Birmingham, Alabama?

Also, I'm impressed that my hand can hold this clamshell.

I think it's fine.
 
I self identify as male because I feel comfortable like this. If you don't, you can look for what does make you feel comfortable.

There's also 240p in the US, except I don't have to buy a plane ticket to get 720x240 content here.

Everyone's talking about the keyboard being shit now. Did they change it recently? I love the keyboard on my T450s, it kind'a ruined all other laptop keyboard for me.
I've played around with various older IBM ThinkPads, and those keyboard didn't do it for me.

In online games like Fortnite you can get pretty different experience depending on where you capture the data and what is happening. By yourself at the edge of the map looking at the ground will give much higher FPS than you would at the middle of the map fighting 4 teams with lots of structures being built around you and effects.
Does Fortnite have a canned benchmark tool that plays the same scene which could be reliably repeated between different systems multiple times?

Yeah CS:GO is such an obscure and unpopular game. 

Issue with games like those are, they get updated so often that data from previous generation of cards wont be comparable to new ones. I am certain they can test those games but they wont be as comparable as games like Tomb Raider.

Source: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/02/lenovo-updates-thinkpad-lineup-with-1610-screens-and-more/
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Lenovo announced that they're updating some of their ThinkPad lineup (namely the X13 and X13 Yoga models) with a notable addition: available 16:10 displays with resolutions of 1920x1200 or 2560x1600.
Lenovo is also adding 11th gen Intel Core and AMD Ryzen 5000-series products to the mix of these new ThinkPads, notable in the sense that AMD offerings are starting to appear more and more in higher end professional machines.
They also are adding WiFi 6 and 5G internet support to both the X13/Yoga laptops, which certainly won't come cheap.
Alongside that, Lenovo is also refreshing their T-series of ThinkPads with most of these new features, minus the 16:10 displays - which, on a series of laptops that offers HDR displays, can make sense.
 
What do I think of this? I'm... uh... genuinely surprised that 16:10 is appearing more and more again. I've always maintained that it was an excellent compromise of the entertainment consumption usability of 16:9 and the excellent screen real estate-enabling usefulness of 3:2 and, as it turns out, more and more manufacturers are agreeing there. 
I beat all of you to the 2560x1600 punch sorry not sorry
 
What's your thoughts on all of this? I'm kinda digging it myself.

Yeah, US. It's the sedan. I believe she said it was GLA AMG she originally wanted but the dealer didn't have any in stock. She wasn't even really interested in the A35 but they had one on the lot and she figured she might as well test drive it since she was already there and it is a three hour drive to the Mercedes dealer form where she lives. I guess by the time she got back to the dealer she had already changed her mind that she wanted the A35, she liked it that much lol.

Hehe. Met that girl yesterday evening. Definitely worth the 12 1/2 hour drive.
 
We really clicked. Like really clicked. It's one thing being able to keep a conversation going on the phone but in person is totally different thing but no problem here. We just talked and talked for hours. About all kinds of things. We totally geeked out over our various shared interests. We talked a lot about cars which we seem to talk about every time (I seriously could just listen to her go on and on about them. She is so knowledgeable and I find it incredibly cute when she gets excited and rambles on about them lol). She showed me her video game and anime collection and we probably talked anime for a good hour. We have very similar tastes in anime and seem to have similar tastes in humor and the characters we like. And hey, she is a huge Hyperdimension Neptunia fan, not really the anime but the video games. She thinks the fan service is hilarious haha. She has even played a couple of the Danganronpa games which I'm quite a fan of.
 
We also talked quite a bit about trans related things. I'm glad I didn't bring it up or anything early on but as we get to know each other I realize it is definitely something she is passionate about. Like she actually seems to really enjoy talking about it which I actually find to be nice because it's a good opportunity for me to learn more from an actual trans person, not just online articles or Reddit users. She seemed to really like hearing my perspective as someone who isn't trans but attracted to a trans person and it seems we actually share a lot of the same opinions. 
 
One thing that really bothered me though is when she told me that despite starting her transition eight years ago now, her parents still refuse to call her she/her or use her chosen name. They literally will refer to her as he right in front of her and address her by her birth name. It actually made me sad inside when she told me that. She said despite living in a small town, everyone has been very accepting and she hasn't had to deal with any kind of transphobia or bigotry but yet her parents still can't accept she is a girl. 
 
I can tell she loves her parents very much and just puts up with this and after all these years has shown an extreme and very impressive amount of patience with them on the subject. It's her call but I think she is being a bit too nice about it but I do find it reflects on her inner strength that she can put up with this.
 
When she told me all this, I just wanted to give her a huge hug but well, it was the first day we met so it probably wouldn't have been the best move lol. But bringing her a bouquet of flowers was definitely a good one. I was nervous the whole trip about giving them to her but she really liked them and it made me really happy inside when I saw how much she appreciated it.
 
We are going to hang out again a little later and I'm pumped again. Sounds like we are going to go for a drive in her new A35 AMG. I can tell she is excited to show me the performance and I'm super excited to go for a ride. Not sure if she is going to let me drive it but she did say she will let me drive her Skyline when it comes out of storage, I didn't even ask, she just said I could, hehe. Man, her car nerd side is so attractive. When I opened the door to my Lexus LS430, she noticed right away the wood was real. Idk. I just thought that was cool lol.
 
And wow. We talked politics quite a bit too. She definitely is political and actually pays attention to what is going on. We are incredibly like minded and I find it interesting to talk to someone personally who is part of the LGBT community and a huge Trump supporter. I knew they were out there but fact I managed to luck out and meet someone IRL who I can relate to politically seems like a real blessing. 
 
Yeah, fortunately, like I said, the locals seem to be pretty accepting of her. It's just her family. And it's going to be mine too if we stat dating. Although, as bad as I thought my parents are on the subject, I know they would never call her a he, not even in private to me so I guess that's something. 
 
And yeah, we aren't rushing. I mean, I'm in a hotel right now, didn't even stay at her place. I can tell, she is a smart girl. Despite how well we are connecting, she isn't the type of girl that would be comfortable with letting a guy she was meeting for the first time stay at her place which is why when I said I wanted to come down, I told her I would get a hotel. Honestly, she was so nervous about meeting, I don't think she would have said yes if I hadn't had offered. It kind of reassured her I wasn't just trying to get some action. 

It's silly to think that 120 (or, in my case, 160) extra vertical pixels mean anything.
Until you actually have those extra vertical pixels. Holy shit man, I regret ever being into 16:9.

Surely you'd clean up a mining card with new thermal pads and paste after using it for a year and a half as a mining card, no?

Surely you'd clean up a mining card with new thermal pads and paste after using it for a year and a half as a mining card, no?

Mods in this thread be like:
"Those guys are dorks."
"Yes, but they're my dorks."

I want fucking 3:2 to come into existence outside of Microsoft Surface products! It'd literally be efficient as hell for my workflow of 720x480 content and, uh, cover art scanning.

It looks like a shitty Garry's Mod model of an iMac.

This is both the smartass and the correct answer: however much you need. 
Personally, I wouldn't go with anything less than a 240-256GB SSD for your OS and essential games and a 2TB hard drive for anything else, at least if you're a heavier player or if you deal with a lot of emulation shit. 
 
Which is, to say, I want to get a 1TB NVMe boot drive and a 4TB hard drive soon.

See, I don't like bologna, but I'm also not autistic bored enough to make a thread about it.

Surely you'd clean up a mining card with new thermal pads and paste after using it for a year and a half as a mining card, no?

Yes :^>