Someone correct me if I'm wrong here but the Intel based laptops touted as outperforming a Ryzen 7 3700U both have Nvidia GeForce MX230s and all the benchmarks are graphics related.

Yup, I bought a Ryzen laptop because I didn't want a discrete chip (causes all sorts of issues in Linux), but I wanted decent graphics performance. I have the 3500U, and it's more than capable of what I need it for, without the complexity of switching a discrete GPU on, and I like the 4-core performance.

Walled article, requires medium login, any other source to read from?

I installed the Bypass Paywalls plugin for Firefox https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox and my experience reading articles on Medium is much nicer. There's still a popup, but it's small and down at the bottom of the screen, instead of a big popup right in the center of the screen blocking most of the article.

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