There is no way to tell that. Maybe if the AI itself makes it explicit, then yes. AI detectors are flaky, and you end up with false positives.

Bruh, I just came across this comment…your PC isn’t “damaged” - all you gotta do is either find the lost BitLocker key, or reinstall the OS. Here’s what you could do - remove the NVME, or the M.2 SSD, or the HDD (if that’s what you’re still on), to your brother’s PC, and move all the required files to a safe space. Then create an installation media for Windows, and well, there you go.

And comrade, please, I urge you to learn to be computer-savy, and perhaps, use a Linux desktop, if you’re not constrained by any Windows-exclusive apps. Perhaps Bazzite may be a good choice. Or Ubuntu, maybe Fedora? Why would you stick to a capitalist turd OS with multiple NSA backdoors is beyond my understanding.

Microsoft literally (and no, I’m not joking) uses telemetry services in the background, fills your computer with bloatware, and doesn’t give you the freedom to use your own purchased OS. And now, they’ve also started taking screenshots of your computer (yes, for real - it is related to some sort of AI bullshit - Copilot PC was it?).

You’re running a script that you downloaded off the internet, which isn’t deterministic, with a sudo command, as opposed to using a relatively deterministic binary on a substitute server from the distro maintainers themselves. The better solution is to just use the Flatpak version of OBS, which comes with a DroidCam plugin, or Nix, or maybe Guix, if that’s what you prefer.

Creating a script with privilege escalation is a terrible idea. How do I know if this does not install binaries in the root in some unknown directory?

You don’t need to do all of this - there’s probably a simpler and better way to do this. Maybe create a service, or something similar?

There’s also IceCat, but it’s less on the privacy side, and more on encouraging the use of LibreJS.

This might be what you’re looking for, since you’ve mentioned gaming, right? These are the ones with dGPU:

Lenovo ThinkPad P51 Core i7-7700HQ, 32GB DDR4, Quadro M1200 (4GB GDDR5) 512GB

Lenovo ThinkPad P51 FHD 3.0GHz Xeon E3-1505M 24GB 512GB - NVIDIA Quadro M2200

Lenovo ThinkPad P51 15.6" Laptop i7 NVIDIA 512GB SSD 16GB RAM Win 10 Pro (OC)

Lenovo ThinkPad P52s 15.6" FHD TOUCH 1.9GHz i7-8650U 16GB 512GB - Quadro P500

Lenovo ThinkPad P52s 15.6" 2018 FHD TOUCH 1.9GHz i7-8650U 16GB 512GB Quadro P500

Refurbished Lenovo ThinkPad P53s 15.6" Core i7-8665U 16GB 1TB SSD Windows 10 Pro

Custom Lenovo ThinkPad P53s 15.6" Laptop Core i7 Min 1.80GHz Windows 10 / 11 Pro

I wouldn’t recommend anything below 4 physical cores. Don’t bother with the P50 - pick them only if the online benchmark is satisfactory according to you.

Now, for the iGPU ones, just search for Thinkpad T14 or X13 on eBay, and get a PC with 16GB or more RAM under your budget. X13 isn’t performant enough, and has no SODIMM memory. T14 on the other hand has one onboard and one SODIMM memory, so you may be able to upgrade in the future.

If you don’t need a beefy CPU+dGPU, the X395, the T490 and the T495 would be great. However, if good CPU is a strict requirement, you may want to pick something like the T14 Gen 1/2 oe the X13 Gen 1/2 laptops. If you also need a dGPU, the P50, P51, P52 or the P53 series with a i7/i9/Xeon processor, and a Nvidia Quadra GPU. You can get them under 300-400$.

Thankfully, the Thinkpads and Precision laptops are quite durable - these devices have a really good chassis, so you don’t have to worry about micro-cracks in the motherboard. If you want something more rugged, you could go for the Toughbook and the Precision Rugged series, but they’re going to be really expensive, which is not worth it. Since I am not still not sure about your actual use-case, it would be hard to recommend devices, but assuming that you don’t need a dGPU, the T-series and X-series would be the best bet (and even the P-series, if there’s a variant without the dGPU).

In the same situation as you are - I have a barely functional laptop. I’ll be buying one off from eBay for cheap soon. I don’t know what your use-case is, but you can get a quad-core ThinkPad or a Dell Latitude for cheap. These devices are also very durable. All under 200-300$. Even 100$, if you’re lucky in the bid. If you’re not a CS grad, you can pick a dual-core laptop as well - just make sure to get the one with a large RAM - or upgrade it yourself for cheap. 600$ is not a small money, and people don’t like it when someone asks for it trivially.

I’m not even sure what kind of behavior is this from a battery - it blinks even when I put in the charger, however it has stopped blinking since the time I’ve put in the charger for almost more than a day. But the value is still at zero - and ironically, it does not shut down immediately - maybe after two-five hours? Is the PCB a goner?

It’s a Lenovo S540-15IWL, with the MX250 dGPU. I’ve tried checking the BIOS, and there seems to be no setting for the battery in the BIOS.

The laptop? Yes, I’ve done this already. I’ve also removed the battery and the CMOS, held the power button to discharge the laptop, booted it without the battery, and then installed it again.

Isn’t Noto Sans just better, with lots of typography support for other languages? What’s the issue then?

MIT is a harmful license in some scenario. I mean, it has it’s use cases for certain apps, but quite a few softwares out there would really benefit from GPL and AGPL-type licenses.

I hate them, because university rankings have kind if become a neo-caste system. Ivy League universities are elitist brain-rot. Sure, they house great minds, but the sham that is meritocracy will crumble if everyone in this world had the privilege to start from the same line one the race track.

Just think of it - is advancement of human civilization a dick-measuring contest, or do we prepared folks to be better professionals to excel in the respective field they’ve chosen?

Well, I am not really sure if you should be celebrating MIT, just because Richard Stallman has graduated from there. That’s like saying - we should bomb the fuck out of Harvard for producing graduated that have bought terror in this world through human rights violation of varying degrees?

Not really. So far, I’ve been looking for the Thinkpad T14 (T4xx), the X13 (X3xx), the P14s, the P1 and the X1 extreme. But most of them were either out of my budget, or quite outdated

I guess this is my kind of system. I am the type to play older, low-end pre-2016 games, and build apps locally, if they’re not available on the substitute servers. Not sure why there’s so much disagreement towards this video?

Most of the Thinkpads are from the USA on eBay, so there’s really not a lot of options for used/refurbished products from European countries in general. I’d love to use any other platform that ships their products to South Asia.

Are European eBay sellers blocked in Asia? For some reason, all I can see are USA-only laptops. Maybe a few Italian and Slovakian ones, which are again, priced ridiculously. So far, I’ve not come across even a single seller from German.

I’ve messaged them, and the least they’re willing to go down is 760£, which is still quite a lot for a 1st gen Ryzen mobile processor.