You made me snort what fortunately was only tea and not a carbonated drink! XD

…backup servers? 👀

I find it sus that they say 100% of the proceedings will be donated. I’m wondering if a fair part of this is an attempt to clear their image after they delivered environmental activists over to monarchical and corporate interests in the EU.

Not necessarily. The only people who would need to know are the people who are already researching you to have you killed for a potential leak, and they would operate under the assumption of a DMS in place already.

Agreements about historical land ownership only apply to white people!

Lemme see, suicide from two gunshots to the back of the head?

no no no no, I prefer the current status of things to anything blockchain.

I hope this teaches them the valuable lesson of always having domains with more than one registrar.

Or, hopefully, we migrate to a system more advanced than DNS registrars where your “name” can be taken down by an unrelated third party. The current system sucks and the fact that even the Fediverse relies on it (accounts are tied to domains, making full account migration impossible) makes even the remains of my pre-graduate CS student brain rumble.

I don’t want to, BUT companies are supposed to make efforts to protect their IP or they run the risk of losing those exclusive protections when it matters later on (abandonment).

My understanding is that 1.- they are not forced to defend against every possible case of trademark usage 2.- they are not obligated by law to be jerks about it and 3.- this applies to trademark only, not copyright or patents.

To celebrate, I went on a (buying) spree on a rented e-bike today!

(Unfortunately it’s a bit costly around here)

Mods should be joining in on the celebration instead, in particular unpaid / community ones like Reddi’s.

This post is actually so stupid, they didn’t take shit from us, it’s still right there.

It’s not. it’s quite visibly not there.

USB-A/B is very outdated.

I take it you are offering to provide me with the adapters needed for all my USB-A devices, and my square-USB printers, for free? Because your mouth certainly runs well oiled.

USB-C can be used to deliver audio, video, ethernet connection, etc. You didn’t lose any functionality. Worst case scenario you’d need a hub for the card readers or a usb to usb-c adapter, or ethernet to usb-c.

Worst case scenario is if you have one sole USB-C connector and it breaks or is damaged. You’d lose all the eggs you had in one basket, whereas with separate adequate connectors you’d at least get to keep some workflow.

I think you mean a Ethernet to USB-C cable?

In any case, I already have the bad experience of Ethernet to USB-A cables not working, and not being able to know if they need some sort of driver. Not even on Linux, which is weird enough for me to temporarily give up on them and prefer built-in to bolt-in for something that’s so important.

To be fair, if I was going for a laptop I defo wouldn’t be doing this so-called “aaa” gaming. The good quality games are the oldies, the NES, SNES era, the CPS arcades. Those run well emulated on a decently-sized potato.

The PITA is that I use RJ45 pretty much every day. It’s not just a matter of “oh there’s wifi everywhere”; 99% of wifis everywhere are not open, or are actually not connected to the networks I’m working on, or I need the physical connector to diagnose wire / networking issues; and the performance of wifi on Linux on refurbrished machines tends to be subpar and they tend to not allow for “developer mode” options (playing with your MAC, WPA supplanting, etc).

If Tesla, the actual Tesla, had given us technology instead of the thief Elon Edison, then perhaps we’d somehow have point-to-point wireless RJ45 that would function everywhere, and I wouldn’t need the connector.

At least those are still here in my country, so yeah. Might be an option.

Yeah, but it feels like they’re mostly worth it. Like, if there was ever a reason to get into the world of international smuggling, those machines would be The good justification.

Or just a little dongle with both of these ports which can be plugged in on any usb-c on any side?

Dongles break, slide off, cause disconnects, can cause internal damage to the connector if the cables you have to connect are heavy, etc…, I already have the bad experience of having to use a USB hub to attach storage.

When it comes to engineering, I’m of the opinion that built-in > bolt in.

I’ve been thinking about it, the main issue is how to get it shipped to my country in a way that I don’t end up paying about 4 times the cost of an already expensive machine.

8.8 inches (22 cm for civilized folks)

would have to basically “chinese man squinting meme” at any serious work

no function key row

no physical navigation keys

not even the physical keys for braces

Fam, thanks but am looking for daily driving some sort of laptop, not a glorified smartphone.