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Re: Lenovo tablet forced update shows un-dismissable, un-mutable, ad notifications

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Post by gruez »

api wrote: post #44
elric wrote: post #29

Gentle reminder that Lenovo jumped the shark quite a while ago. The whole Superfish debacle, the spyware, the crapware, the endless stream of shitty decisions. Year after year, the hardware gets worse. Customer support gets worse. The sad thing is that they're still better than everything else out there. Which says a lot about the laptop industry in general.

PC laptops are now budget machines so they compete on price. Anything that competes on price tends to become a deflationary race to the bottom. This is part of why people feel almost stuck with Apple. Their hardware is a lot better than most of the competition, though it comes with a price premium, and while there are privacy concerns they are less than with these shitware-loaded machines. You can also install Linux…

> PC laptops are now budget machines so they compete on price. Anything that competes on price tends to become a deflationary race to the bottom.

That really only applies to the consumer line. The thinkpad line is still pretty solid.

Re: Lenovo tablet forced update shows un-dismissable, un-mutable, ad notifications

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Post by swiley »

ithinkso wrote: post #12

I wonder if the ad bombardment we are suffering for some years now will eventually reach a critical point to trigger mass exodus or protests. TV got annoying with ads and viewership greatly decreased but that was caused by the emergence of the internet I think, what new technology options we have to escape the current ads to? The only other hope is that the massive amount of money in ads and data collection is actual…

The ad bombardment will be the end of non-free software.

Re: Lenovo tablet forced update shows un-dismissable, un-mutable, ad notifications

#53

Post by 10000truths »

api wrote: post #44
elric wrote: post #29

Gentle reminder that Lenovo jumped the shark quite a while ago. The whole Superfish debacle, the spyware, the crapware, the endless stream of shitty decisions. Year after year, the hardware gets worse. Customer support gets worse. The sad thing is that they're still better than everything else out there. Which says a lot about the laptop industry in general.

PC laptops are now budget machines so they compete on price. Anything that competes on price tends to become a deflationary race to the bottom. This is part of why people feel almost stuck with Apple. Their hardware is a lot better than most of the competition, though it comes with a price premium, and while there are privacy concerns they are less than with these shitware-loaded machines. You can also install Linux…

There are plenty of 1000$+ laptops you can purchase these days with good specs that compete with Apple’s lineup of MacBooks.

Re: Lenovo tablet forced update shows un-dismissable, un-mutable, ad notifications

#54

Post by elric »

10000truths wrote: post #53
api wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

PC laptops are now budget machines so they compete on price. Anything that competes on price tends to become a deflationary race to the bottom. This is part of why people feel almost stuck with Apple. Their hardware is a lot better than most of the competition, though it comes with a price premium, and while there are privacy concerns they are less than with these shitware-loaded machines. You can also install Linux…

There are plenty of 1000$+ laptops you can purchase these days with good specs that compete with Apple’s lineup of MacBooks.

Are there? There's Thinkpads, and pretty much nothing else. Everything else either has awful specs, awful hardware, or awful support. And don't even get me started on awful keyboards, those are now almost universal.

Re: Lenovo tablet forced update shows un-dismissable, un-mutable, ad notifications

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Post by lrem »

api wrote: post #44
elric wrote: post #29

Gentle reminder that Lenovo jumped the shark quite a while ago. The whole Superfish debacle, the spyware, the crapware, the endless stream of shitty decisions. Year after year, the hardware gets worse. Customer support gets worse. The sad thing is that they're still better than everything else out there. Which says a lot about the laptop industry in general.

PC laptops are now budget machines so they compete on price. Anything that competes on price tends to become a deflationary race to the bottom. This is part of why people feel almost stuck with Apple. Their hardware is a lot better than most of the competition, though it comes with a price premium, and while there are privacy concerns they are less than with these shitware-loaded machines. You can also install Linux…

> PC laptops are now budget machines so they compete on price.

My Surface Pro was a hair below $2000. I was also considering a Lenovo X1 Yoga that was well above $2000. You sure that's competition on price?

Re: Lenovo tablet forced update shows un-dismissable, un-mutable, ad notifications

#56

Post by lrem »

swiley wrote: post #52
ithinkso wrote: post #12

I wonder if the ad bombardment we are suffering for some years now will eventually reach a critical point to trigger mass exodus or protests. TV got annoying with ads and viewership greatly decreased but that was caused by the emergence of the internet I think, what new technology options we have to escape the current ads to? The only other hope is that the massive amount of money in ads and data collection is actual…

The ad bombardment will be the end of non-free software.

Weren't there ads in Ubuntu?

Re: Lenovo tablet forced update shows un-dismissable, un-mutable, ad notifications

#57

Post by evilduck »

10000truths wrote: post #53
api wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

PC laptops are now budget machines so they compete on price. Anything that competes on price tends to become a deflationary race to the bottom. This is part of why people feel almost stuck with Apple. Their hardware is a lot better than most of the competition, though it comes with a price premium, and while there are privacy concerns they are less than with these shitware-loaded machines. You can also install Linux…

There are plenty of 1000$+ laptops you can purchase these days with good specs that compete with Apple’s lineup of MacBooks.

Name them please, because I've looked and there seems to be a slew of compromises in every option that make them worse than a MBP.

Re: Lenovo tablet forced update shows un-dismissable, un-mutable, ad notifications

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Post by pueblito »

elric wrote: post #42
tehjoker wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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I've never encountered any ads in printed books. Edit because I can't be bothered to reply to all the comments below: excerpts from other books (often by the same author, or in a similar genre) are not ads IMO. They're not intrusive. They're pretty much always relevant. They're fun to read. They don't contain tracking cookies. They're as benign as it gets.

Tons of books come with a teaser for another book added to the end of it

Re: Lenovo tablet forced update shows un-dismissable, un-mutable, ad notifications

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Post by [deleted] »

notyourwork wrote: post #47
elric wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've never encountered any ads in printed books. Edit because I can't be bothered to reply to all the comments below: excerpts from other books (often by the same author, or in a similar genre) are not ads IMO. They're not intrusive. They're pretty much always relevant. They're fun to read. They don't contain tracking cookies. They're as benign as it gets.

Ever read a newspaper or magazine?

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