What’s the difference, really? Aren’t they both decentralized microblogging social networks?

ShutUp10 and WinAeroTweaker are the GOATS.

Governments should either be operating their own systems for this or, hell I don’t know, why not just spin up a their ready-to-go Mastodon instance or something else in the fediverse not subject to the delirious whims of a petulant muskrat born with daddy’s money?

In the same way that car fails when you deliberately drive it 100mph into a brick wall.

mxroute is currently offering a 10GB lifetime account for a hundred bucks US. One time fee.

Bullshit. Even the smallest 12" ThinkPads had all of these things. They were lightweight and compact, and still had 7-row keyboards, a status light for everything, and a plethora of ports.

You have to stay with the X, T or P series to get anything with decent quality. They’ve sullied the ThinkPad brand greatly over the years with the cheapshit variations outside of these series.

See:

Doesn’t mean they can’t offer both, and there’s no reason they can’t have status lights, 7-row keyboards, and reasonable port offerings (even if it’s mostly a bunch of USB C ports, which can service just about anything) in a smaller package, it’s that they’re cheap, lazy fucks selling trends instead of utility.

So now you get less and less utility and maintainability for the same or greater price. They spend less on engineering and charge you the same or more for it. Fuck them.

Doesn’t mean they can’t offer both, and there’s no reason they can’t have status lights, 7-row keyboards, and reasonable port offerings (even if it’s mostly a bunch of USB C ports, which can service just about anything) in a smaller package, it’s that they’re cheap, lazy fucks selling trends instead of utility.

Yes, but we’re talking about laptops.

Same here (W520). I have maxed out everything. 32GB RAM, two SSDs, two external monitors. I will continue using this thing and make it the ThinkPad of Theseus.

Fuck modernity.

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He needs to know he can move an entire house worth of belongings once a decade without having to rent a U-Haul like a pussy.

Elon can go huff his Musk.

Honestly, they should have said “fuck you, no tools whatsoever to replace the battery.”

My mid-2010’s phone has this and probably the only reason I still have it (instead of contributing to electronic waste) is because I can replace the battery so easily, which I’ve done at least twice.

Fixing the hardware, which is to say surgically removing the two or three tiny microphones hidden inside

Um, what the fuck?

“Technology” as a concept? Of course not.

Algorithmically curated, corporate sponsored content promotion inside digital social echo chambers? Absolutely.

That’s a hair over 0.5% of Apple’s net earnings 2022. They would literally need to hit with this kind of penalty 200 times a year to actually feel it.

This won’t change a goddamn thing.

I use it regularly (web dev). A lot of complaints and mockery stems from using it badly. None of the programming languages that are regularly the butt of everyone’s jokes force you to use them badly, they just allow you to. If you follow good practices, you’ll be just fine.

This works until all the OEM’s jump on the malicious malfunction gravy train.