Doctor Adamant

These tweets are solely my own and do not reflect the opinions of my various employers.

[Abhi Ai @Heyabhi29]

Millions of 3-year-old laptops get blamed for being "slow" when the hardware is barely the problem — it's almost always what's silently running underneath.

A student was about to spend $900 on a brand new laptop because hers took 4 minutes to boot and constantly froze mid-assignment, right when deadlines mattered most.

Her older brother, who builds PCs on the side and has fixed dozens of laptops for friends, sat down with her laptop for 8 minutes on a Sunday afternoon.

He didn't reinstall Windows.
Didn't add RAM.
Didn't recommend an SSD upgrade.
Didn't suggest buying anything at all.

He changed 8 settings.

Boot time dropped from 4 minutes to 20 seconds. Chrome stopped eating 90% of her CPU in the background. Word stopped freezing mid-sentence while she typed.

Same laptop. Same specs. Same age. Same everything.

"Your laptop was never actually slow. It was just never cleaned up past the day you bought it — and nobody, not the store, not Microsoft, not tech support, was ever going to tell you the fix was free."

🧵 Here are the 8 settings he changed:

[Doctor Adamant @DrAdamant]

This is intimidation and should not be occurring. https://t.co/to97UUBgEE

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From the book "White Fragility". This applies as a White person learning from People of Color, as well as other parts of my life. Often, my gut feelings and urges aren't the important ones.

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@KenyaAirlines How is this professional or efficient? I arrived to the airport three hours before my departure time and may miss my flight. There are THREE security checks. Completely unacceptable.

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@seakaterun This is the exact tweet

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Dissapointing that @eyderp's article on Mexican GMO corn ban lacked sufficient fact-checking, relying more on calls to cultural assimilation rather than the history of the ban, economic pressures, and how pollination works. https://t.co/6u2RIqAGNM

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@julianjon Sounds ideal. How do I get a chance to work out of your house? (and is using the French Press free?)

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@misskelseywrong It could be worse. You could be turning into my mom

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@hollindaze Tbf, it's not just Philly. Many cities that I bike in like to treat it as a free-for-all space

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@seakaterun Or a random graph with huge error bars that you're still absurdly proud of

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@misskelseywrong I support you. Never leave the blankets ever again

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@misskelseywrong No and yes, probs. Gotta wake up eventually, but the bed part is optional.

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@misskelseywrong Finally, you're arrived~

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, we are not allowed to see the technician's report (which they now claim notes that the bed collapse is our fault), and will not compensate us for the collapsed bed.

Guess we'll be sleeping on a mattress on the ground for a while. And we will not be shopping at @Macys again.

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@hollindaze Short-term demeaning Bandaids to systemic problems

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@misskelseywrong 100% feel you. If I don't have my soppy cup, I'm aching to do something with my hands/mouth while answering every email that was ever sent.

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@julianjon Congrats! Very informative

...how many rounds of clearance did it take to get it out? 😋

[Mac Marshall @_YoSoyMac]

Cool to see the @StateDept using technology to bring real-life #farming lessons (like weed management & input costs) to children, giving them a glimpse into life from a farmer’s POV. https://t.co/TFKjCdAqY4 @DrAdamant

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@KelseyWright333 If you're not actively telling everyone that you're doing science, are you?