Also installed its own. All power goes both ways.

In any case, even in US history military has been used against US citizens too. Not many things can really be new.

When I was a teen, I thought anyone who joins it is virtue signaling.

Oh no. Just yesterday I’ve seen an article about Blackwell PCs and what not.

You’re telling me it’s not ready?

That they lied to me?

How could that happen?

Oh no God no!

OK, I agree that it changed the world. But Nokia getting sabotaged played a role.

I’m still not sure how much different modern processor-building is between ISA’s beyond the decoder and legacy limitations, which are harder on Intel architecture than on ARM.

I suppose M-things are cool, so a milestone, and a welcome one, but, apart from Hackintosh builders, it doesn’t raise the demand for ARM machines a lot. The demand for Apple machines on ARM - yes, since they’ve gotten a new technical cool factor, which hasn’t happened for some time before that transition.

They sometimes do good things which become fashion, and they do bad things which become fashion (I still hate widescreens on personal computers ; you either get distracted by what’s above and below the screen, or get anxious from the sides being in peripheral vision zone ; anyway, we still scroll vertically).

Thank fuck, a simple and clear marking that an average user can understand!

Next thing you know - all the hardware producers just start using some new standard they’ve collectively conceived. Because “simple and clear” is bad for their business.

But does it feel warm? Can you see the texture of those patrices pounding the paper? The natural feeling of primal typographic power, transferred unbiased by our golden cable?

Usually what’s called simpler as opposed to techy ways makes things, in fact, loads of crap more complex.

Nvidia is still rather nice with FreeBSD, because their official proprietary driver there is, well, fully official, while drivers ported from Linux somewhat lag behind and have problems sometimes.

The iPhone was kind of a big deal. It wasn’t completely original, but nothing ever is. It made the smartphone worthwhile for the average consumer in a way that Palm and BlackBerry and others simply didn’t, and directly led to the mobile ecosystem we have now.

That’s more terrible than great.

Edit: Oh, also the M-series processor. That’s pretty great.

ARM is its own thing.

Supreme Commanders of a few nations have that proverbial red button to delete anything (customizable selection of what to delete, too). You just have to get in contact with one of them, call them for a cup of coffee. Ask them to rid you of that problem.

Have they ever “invented anything great”?

I guess original iPod was an unexpected shot in the right direction. And PPC Macs were fine, I guess. That opinion is based solely on the appearances and the fact that PPC good, Intel bad, Motorola fossil.

How the hell are you going to work with that?

Is that slab of touchscreen in your pocket a workstation too?

FFS, when I was excited about sensory screens like in sci-fi, I meant electronic notepads (with accumulators lasting a month, probably also usable as hardware authenticators and not too beefy audio and video players, but intentionally weak and without real OS, some kind of electronic paper with a visual PostScript editor, I dunno ; probably functional as remote controllers for something else ; thin reliable cheap devices with wide, but not tall functionality).

That was when iPhones still were some new stupidity and I had a Nokia phone (a good one) with cute nice buttons and Nokia UI design, you know how it all felt then.

EDIT: that association was because I assumed you imagine this like “touching” objects in VR with your fingers and such

They can be silent too, so not even that problem.

Also where I sometimes go with a laptop, nobody will hear the click-clacking.

The reasons old ThinkPads were are better than MacBooks (except for being old) are about design too.

For me ThinkPads are beautiful and convenient, while MacBooks are ugly and inconvenient.

Most people simply don’t have an opinion of their own, they get theirs from “social media influencers” (something that once meant the leaders of that clueless crowd, usually bribed by companies, and now means in fact not separate humans, but teams, employed by companies).

And that’s where Apple shined, it really managed to promise apes a lift in status by backing them. Almost a Fender Stratocaster level feeling. Not just that, if you do some digital archaeology, you’ll find that around year 1999 many people seriously considered Apple to be some kind of counterculture, underground etc thing. That doesn’t work anymore, because Steve Jobs lost the battle against his own ignorance and died, but frankly I think it stopped working after iPhone. Wrong kind of propaganda and wrong kind of audience to be compatible with the old image.

Still that image was rather strong. One can still sometimes find traces of it. Hotline and KDX software, and that idea of convenience of GUI programs.

I want a laptop with a trackpoint, keyboard with good (like Model M) key travel and resistance (and water resilience too), color e-ink display (preferably 5:4 or 4:3 screen ratio) with good refresh rate, everything removable, 5G modem, GPIO, additional SSD slot, good set and amount of interfaces (not an Apple fan), and - important - chassis and hinges not made of shit.

Just in case somebody from Lenovo is lurking here.

I blame every goddamn tech journalist who wanted it gone

Weird if heir PMs and such really believed people who are clearly companies’ PR and not representation of anything real, instead of focus groups.

I’m not talking about spam bots.

The problem is that this childish 'murican view of free speech and censorship has poisoned the entire discussion

No, it’s your opinion that you’re smarter than those who formed the “childish view” is what has poisoned a lot of things. The rest is either deliberate bullshit or you failed to read my comment.

Censorship happens at any group, because it’s all about maintaining social cohesion. Remember when trump was first elected and several family ties and friendships effectively ended? That was RL censorship, because trying to mend the social cohesion wasn’t worth it. Why would you be close to someone who makes your life terrible?

No, that’s not censorship. You are not forbidding all your relatives to communicate with some other relatives, or else. You are just ending your own communication with someone else.

Go away.

“Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power” - every autistic person ever.

Seriously, I’m just surprised there are people who both need this and haven’t already trained their imagination to do better without pictures and text generators.

I remember there were plenty of little bitches saying that censorship won’t be turned the other way and that it allows to remove bad people from the Internet. That bad people should be censored, and Reddit\Twitter\Facebook when used for politics will not be abused by bot armies, and that censorship will not be repurposed very easily.

I was being accused of being a right-wing troll, a luddite, a retard, an incel and what not for saying that they were wrong on every point.

Yes, even bad people should not be censored. When they misbehave, they should be barred from the place they harmed, ideally not forever, but for a week or so maximum.

I’ve learned this not just in morals, but in practice, when repeatedly banned on one forum by an admin of directly opposite political views … for 24 hours max each time after multiple warnings, and only once a week or a month (can’t remember) much later when I joked about exploding Muslims. Despite that, I was (I hope) a good enough member of that forum for like 10 years after, till now. Apes waving banhammers today have something to learn from that.

But that’s not the point, the point is that even if you consider centralized censorship good, that’s how it works.

So getting back to little bitches loving censorship - where are they now and do they have anything to say?

There is, it just has to be more convenient, hence the listed functionality.