A lot of 4080s use the same heatsinks as the 4090s so they should be very quiet. I have a gigabyte OC 4090 and I have it undervolted as far as it will go (200 watts typical, 300 watts max) and I can’t hear it in my fractal define R4. Undervolt your 4080 a smidge and it will be dead silent. My CPU is a 5800x3d with an NH-D14 and it’s not possible to hear that thing.

Also just FYI the R4 is not large enough for the 12vhpwr cable, you have to make too sharp of a turn radius for it. My 4090 is undervolted so far I’m not concerned, but be aware of this.

I never had any issues. The biggest thing is to have a strict sleep schedule, and have black out blinds. If you’re loosey goosey it’s going to be suffering.

I got into CloudWorkers with the hopes it is some sort of legit cause I am in deep crap.

https://www.reddit.com/r/freelance/comments/kfx8bt/warning_about_cloudworkers/

I wouldn’t hold your breath.

Also low level, $20 an hour, remote really is asking for a LOT. Can you not work in person, or do you just don’t want to work in person? $20 an hour is reasonable in person, $20 an hour remote isn’t.

Intel’s CEO says ‘large’ integrated GPUs are the way forward.

You didn’t even have to click on the article it was in the preview text. And that’s exactly what Intel has been doing with their 100 and 200 series CPUs (that’s what they’re called right?). The 140v that’s in the lunar lake while not cleanly beating AMD’s 890 is putting up a pretty good fight. And that’s in the super hamstrung for power Lunar Lake CPUs, with Arcs horribly unoptimized silicon and drivers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg74aUQGdSg

If Intel can figure out how to slim down the silicon for battlemage to make it more efficient (space and power wise) then they could have some actual competition for AMD.

Words will do nothing, that’s how Trump was elected.

Actions are what’s needed. Get out there.

Chrome does this just fine on windows. It just updates in the background so the only thing you need to do is (re)open chrome and it’s done. Firefox doesn’t, and waits until you try to launch it to update. On my laptop where I use FF infrequently makes it’s startup time about 30 seconds basically every time I open it.

The T480 holds a meme status kinda like the *20 series mostly because it has 2 ram slots. The successor the T490 and even newer machines can typically be found for less money because of said memeage.

Emphasis on the support. I bought a moto phone (I think an E, not a G) that got 0 major software updates. I think it got a 0.0.1 path or something so minor you’d never notice.

T series start at about $1000 USD, and tank rapidly in price after about a year old.

I got a T14 gen 2 AMD right before gen 3 came out for $300 brand new.

If you’ve got a thunderbolt port on your laptop and a thunderbolt dock on your laptop then there’s no reason why it shouldn’t work.

I’m not familiar with thunderbolt on linux, but on windows you plug it in and it just works™️ and shows up as if it was inside your machine. Your DE on linux might automatically do it, but if you’re command line only you’ll probably have to run a command first.