Just a thought I had okay, just a thought I had!
Bill: Damn it Ford, it's like you bacame a whole new person when we broke up!
Ford: What?! We never "broke up"!
Bill: ..oh my amphibian in the sky, were you not breaking up with me? Was it just a regular arguement and I jumped to conclusions and you never really wanted to leave me??!
Ford: What? No! We never broke up cause we were never together!
Bill: Babe, that really hurts my feelings when you say stuff like that, if we're gonna make this work you need to start thinking before you speak.
Ford: ??
Ford: Don't call me babe! We're not together!
Bill: You never used to have a problem with me calling you babe before.
Ford: That's cause I thought you were doing it ironically!
Bill: Oh babe, that's such a classic you move.
Ford: Stop that!
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Since some people might want a Mac, I'll offer a Mac equivalent of your laptop guide from the perspective of a Mac/Linux person.
Even the cheapest Macs cost more than Windows laptops, but part of that is Apple not making anything for the low end of the tech spectrum. There is no equivalent Mac to an Intel i3 with 4 gigabytes of RAM. This makes it a lot easier to find the laptop you need.
That said, it is possible to buy the wrong Mac for you, and the wrong Mac for you is the 13-inch MacBook Pro with the Touch Bar. Get literally anything else. If it has an M2 chip in it, it's the most recent model and will serve you well for several years. Any new MacBook Air is a good pick.
(You could wait for new Macs with M3, but I wouldn't bother. If you are reading these guides the M3 isn't going to do anything you need done that a M2 couldn't.)
Macs now have integrated storage and memory, so you should be aware that whatever internal storage and RAM you get, you'll be stuck with. But if you would be willing to get a 256 gig SSD in a Windows laptop, the Mac laptop with 256 gigs of storage will be just as good, and if you'd be willing to get 8 gigs of RAM in a Windows laptop the Mac will perform slightly better with the same amount of memory.
Buy a small external hard drive and hook it up so Time Machine can make daily backups of your laptop. Turn on iCloud Drive so your documents are available anywhere you can use a web browser. And get AppleCare because it will almost certainly be a waste of money but wooooooow will you be glad it's there if you need it.
I get that you are trying to help and I am not trying to be mean to you specifically, but people shouldn't buy apple computers. That's why I didn't provide specs for them. Apple is a company that is absolutely terrible to its customers and its customers deserve better than what apple is willing to offer.
Apple charges $800 to upgrade the onboard storage from a 256GB SSD to a 2TB SSD.
A 2TB SSD costs between $75-100.
I maintain that any company that would charge you more than half the cost of a new device to install a $100 part on day one is a company making the wrong computer for you.
The point of being willing to tolerate a 256GB SSD or 8GB RAM in a Windows laptop is that you're deferring some of the cost to save money at the time of purchase so that you can spend a little bit in three years instead of having to replace the entire computer. Because, you see, many people cannot afford to pay $1000 for a computer and need to buy a computer that costs $650 and will add $200 worth of hardware at a later date.
My minimum specs recommendations for a mac would be to configure one with the max possible RAM and SSD, look at the cost, and choose to go buy three i7 windows laptops with the same storage and RAM for less than the sticker price of the macs.
So let's say you want to get a 14" Macbook pro with the lowest-level processor. That's $2000. Now let's bump that from 16GB RAM and a 512GB SSD to 32GB and 2TB. That gets you to $3000. (The SSD is $200 less than on the lower model, and they'll let you put in an 8TB SSD for $1800 on this model; that's not available on the 13" because apple's product development team is entirely staffed by assholes who think you deserve a shitty computer if you can't afford to pay the cost of two 1991 Jeep Cherokee Laredos for a single laptop).
For $3000 you can get 3 Lenovo Workstation laptops with i7 processors, 32GB RAM, and a 2TB SSD.
And look, for just $200 more I could go up to 48GB RAM and get a 4TB SSD - it costs $600 to upgrade the 14" mac from a 2TB SSD to a 4TB SSD so you could still get three laptops with more ram and the same amount of storage for the cost of one macbook.
I get that some people need to use Final Cut and Logic Pro, but hoo boy they sure are charging you through the nose to use products that have become industry standard. The words "capture" and "monopoly" come to mind even though they don't quite apply here.
"Hostile" does, though, especially since Mac users end up locked into the ecosystem through software and cloud services and become uncertain how to leave it behind if they ever decide that a computer should cost less than a month's rent on a shitty studio apartment in LA.
There's a very good reason I didn't give mac advice and that's because my mac advice is "DON'T."
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What about Miguel and reader having a movie night??
## — “𝐋𝐀𝐙𝐘 𝐏𝐔𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐄𝐒”
𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 ! 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘶𝘦𝘭 𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘻 𝘹 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘳
𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘴 ! 𝘪 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘶𝘦𝘭
𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 ! 𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘴.
“we are so stupid. why did we pick a horror movie out of all movies.”
“WE???!?!?! y/n, amor that was all YOU”
you two had been watching horror movies for the last 4 hours, this was his way of making it up to you after he came back from mexico. its not that you were mad at him or anything, just worried. and he felt guilty for leaving you behind, so this is how he makes up for it.
“miguel. i want water but im too lazy to get it.. and even if i WERE to get it, im too scared to go to the kitchen by myself….. can u come with me to get water 😞”
“yeah, babe. of course i can” he smiles, following you into the kitchen. when you two had made it there, you accidentally dropped something on the table, causing another thing to drop onto the floor… scaring you
“FUCK NO PLZ DONT KILL ME NUN PLZ” you yelled, terrified for ur life until u heard miguel giggle behind you and start to tease you, sneaking his arms around your waist from behind. “dont worry amor, i’ll protect you from the nun” and you decided to tease right back
“with your ninja skills?”
his jaw DROPPED. you did NOT. just say that. his karate moves were NOT ninja skills, he wasnt actually offended, but he let his fake offended face show up. causing you to giggle
…
after you two had got back into the living room, you cuddling right back up to your lover, he smiles and wraps an arm around your shoulder. all was great until… a jumpscare popped up……….. you JUMPED.
“awe migUEL FUCKING HELL HOLY SHIT”
miguel loved the way you hid your face in his chest when jumpscares came up, he loved the way you’d pout after it happened, complaining about the directors adding them in. he loved how you’d cling to him to the rest of the movie with him continuously telling you he’d protect you from all the monsters, giving u a wee bit of reassurance….
“amor dont worry, your very strong and handsome boyfriend will protect you from those monsters”
“miguel u kinda look like that one”
“bye.”
after the movie ended, you were scared shitless. you couldnt evej go to the DAMN BATHROOM without asking miguel to stand infront of the door and talk to u while you were pissing so you can assure he didnt leave you by urself. then after you got out, you’d look to him and ask
“one more?”
he groaned
“no more horror movies, y/n”
and your reply?
“youre a pussy, miguel”
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plz don’t copy my work 😞
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