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Re: A small notebook for a system administrator

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Post by huhtenberg »

chrisseaton wrote: post #35

> Such notebook is suitable for posting photos on Instagram, but not for work. At least not for mine. Why do people feel the need to be so snide and put down what other people do as 'not work'?

That's the only comment you have on a detailed technical post that spans several pages?

This is not a snide remark. The site is habr.com, which is a Russian resource. So what you perceive is an offensive faux pas, is just a dry and cynical joke of a kind very common to the IT people of the former Soviet Union space. It's not a terribly funny joke, nor do I personally like this brand of humor, but it's clearly not made in bad spirit or meant to offend.

Re: A small notebook for a system administrator

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Post by bryanlarsen »

varjag wrote: post #42

Doesn't have coaxial propellers option to double as a camera drone. A show stopper for me! Seriously, this is computer nerds' version of prepping, starting with a diss at clueless commoners and gradually piling up the levels of ridiculous.

The author wrote "But I hope you will find a couple of interesting thoughts here." They're asking notebook makers to see it as a grab bag of ideas, not a unified whole.

Re: A small notebook for a system administrator

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Post by detaro »

mihaifm wrote: post #18

Using the laptop monitor as a display for external sources (and the video input port) is a good idea, I'm not sure why nobody is implementing it these days. Are there any technical challenges to this, or is it a feature considered useless by all of the laptop producers?

Tiny market share. With USB3, at least you can have video capture dongles with reasonable resolution. I know for HDMI they're quite common, but I'd assume someone makes a VGA version too.

Re: A small notebook for a system administrator

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Post by chrisseaton »

huhtenberg wrote: post #61
chrisseaton wrote: post #35

> Such notebook is suitable for posting photos on Instagram, but not for work. At least not for mine. Why do people feel the need to be so snide and put down what other people do as 'not work'?

That's the only comment you have on a detailed technical post that spans several pages? This is not a snide remark. The site is habr.com, which is a Russian resource. So what you perceive is an offensive faux pas, is just a dry and cynical joke of a kind very common to the IT people of the former Soviet Union space. It's not a terribly funny joke, nor do I personally like this brand of humor, but it's clearly not mad…

> That's the only comment you have on a detailed technical post that spans several pages?

Yes it's a shame that it lets down the rest of the article, isn't it?

> This is not a snide remark.

Maybe you have a different idea of what snide is. I don't think it's 'offensive' I just think it's a bit nasty. Why can't they talk about their work without saying that what someone else does isn't work? What's the need for it? What does it add? This is 'snide' to me - derogatory and mocking.

Re: A small notebook for a system administrator

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Post by dagw »

criddell wrote: post #38

> Such notebook is suitable for posting photos on Instagram, but not for work. There's something about that statement that put me off the entire article. Maybe the author truly is 3l337, but it just comes off as condescending. Plus, who uses a notebook for Instagram? The author managed to be simultaneously derisive and clueless.

who uses a notebook for Instagram?

I think he's doing the tech equivalent of pretending not have heard of a popular band or not knowing what the Super Bowl is to try to make yourself look extra cool.

Re: A small notebook for a system administrator

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Post by ansible »

chrisseaton wrote: post #50
hasperdi wrote: post #47

If you want something that you can buy now, or soon... here are some options: - GPD Micro https://liliputing.com/2019/01/first-look-gpd-micro-pc-handh... - GPD Pocket 2 Mini https://liliputing.com/2018/12/gpd-launches-a-cheaper-pocket... - Clones / look alike of the GPD Pocket

Whatever happened to the 'netbook' form factor? That just seemed to disappear overnight.

There are various Chromebooks nearly as small, with low weight.

I've installed GalliumOS on mine, and it is working pretty good. Light and handy, though battery life isn't quite as good as it was with ChromeOS.

The main thing missing is Ethernet, but I have a dongle for that.

Re: A small notebook for a system administrator

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Post by a012 »

PurpleRamen wrote: post #54
anilakar wrote: post #10

Mostly reminds me of https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/The_Homer On a serious note, I mostly disagree about the small size. The author mentioned his preferred size being A5, which is about half a letter. Having to type commands on machine that just fits under your palms is painful. I'd rather have a large keyboard, large screen and a large battery. My current EDC setup is an X250 with a huge bag of adapter dongles, ca…

I guess it depends on how often you need to use the notebook standing besides some server while carrying the notebook in your hand. Or just move it around; take it out of the bag and put it back again..every day, sometimes multiple times.. Weight can start being annoying at some point.

FHD A5 screen size would not be eligible to me

Re: A small notebook for a system administrator

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Post by opencl »

orf wrote: post #6

This feels like it's an unrealistic Christmas present list. By that I mean having a laptop with everything in this article would be absolutely amazing, but is it even possible to mass produce something like that, let alone even build the thing as a one-off? What would a more realistic sysadmin notebook look like?

The GPD MicroPC actually exists and is not too far off of this thing in terms of ports, sadly it lacks the trackpoint. Especially sad since GPD has already released a system with a trackpoint.

Re: A small notebook for a system administrator

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Post by odonnellryan »

robin_reala wrote: post #45
piqufoh wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's specific (US Letter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_(paper_size) ) - half of which is reasonaby close to A5, but I'm not sure why the "odd" qualifier.

I guess odd because it’s really only used in North America. I’ve never seen a piece of letter sized paper although I’ve heard of it (first after deciphering the weird PC LOAD LETTER error on HP laser printers which is extra confusing if you don’t realise that letter is a paper size).

It is almost the same as A4 paper.
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