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

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Post by Octoth0rpe »

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

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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.

Not if you care about a good screen (which is a lot more than just dpi, though that's a big part of it).

Not if you care about a good trackpad.

Definitely not if you care about running *nix with full vendor support.

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Post by squarefoot »

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

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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.

Ever read a newspaper or magazine?

They're completely different from books in this context. A newspaper is usually read within hours from its print; a magazine within days; a book might require six months or six years to be read. Nobody except maybe the same publishing company and a few other businesses would have use for ad space that would require so much time to be seen.

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

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Post by why_Mr_Anderson »

bkraz wrote: post #39
jamincan wrote: post #37

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His channel is an increasingly rare gem. It's very high quality and interesting content without all the extra cruft that is inescapable now, even with some of the better channels.

Thank you. I make a conscious effort to avoid the craft that I hate so much myself. Luckily, I have a day job that allows me to treat the channel as a hobby -- I know others are not in this position. Other downside is that the day job takes time away from making fun videos :) let me know if anyone has a topic suggestion.

Hi Ben, after yet another (3rd I think? could be 4th) round of binge-watching all your videos, I was wondering if you made any progress with "Wire EDM" that you mention in one of your videos. That process is (for me, at least) pretty much pure magic. And the resulting cuts are just unbelievable.

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

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Post by mhb »

gruez wrote: post #51
api wrote: post #44

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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.

> The thinkpad line is still pretty solid.

Meh. The trackpoint and keypad on my X1 are far inferior to previous Thinkpads, like the X220, before they decided their overarching mission was to make things as thin as possible. The trackpoint is sometimes unusable and is a chore to use at all times whereas the older ones were fun.

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Post by Brian_K_White »

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

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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.

I have. Sometimes old paperbacks had glossy full color card stock sheets stuck right in the middle. Glued and cut just like all the other pages.

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

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Post by travisporter »

evilduck wrote: post #57
10000truths wrote: post #53

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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.

Loving my XPS 13 running ubuntu since 2018. Trackpad is great and I still get enough battery life to use for browsing at work all day

edit: sorry, I just remembered -- I did have to replace the SSD on this thing when it conked out in 2019! fortunately I bought it refurbished with a warranty of some sort and they shipped a new one fast.

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

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Post by Baeocystin »

ianferrel wrote: post #49
HelixEndeavor wrote: post #19

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That's exactly the logic Amazon uses for their Fire tablets. You can get them cheaper if you agree to have ads baked into the lock screen at a firmware level.

Yes, but it's up front and obvious, not hidden in legalese or added in a future update. That seems fine to me.

I agree. I have zero problems with my subsidized-by-ads Kindle, because I knew what I was getting when I bought it in the first place.

And, to Amazon's credit, the ads are unobtrusive. You get an ad for another book on your lockscreen; not a big deal, and most importantly, you are never, ever interrupted once you've unlocked the device. If Amazon ever switched to an intrusive-ad model, I'd pitch the thing in the trash without a second thought.

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Post by jessriedel »

lrem wrote: post #55
api wrote: post #44

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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?

I guess one could claim "companies that compete on price in some large section of the market form internal dysfunctions that cannot be reliably walled off from the parts of the companies that produce high-end products". Indeed, there's always a suspicion, perhaps reasonable, when mass-market companies produce luxury products, e.g., McDonald's McCafe or Ford sports cars. Some such companies often try to avoid this, with limited success, using separate branding.

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Post by hspak »

gruez wrote: post #48
gigel82 wrote: post #24

Lenovo left a sour taste for me after they pushed a BIOS update through Windows Update on my daughter's Flex that bricked the device (in the middle of a school-week, while she was doing online school). There were dozens of reports of the same problem from other owners of that model, yet they refused to acknowledge the issue was theirs or offer any self-serve option (I remember most laptops nowadays can re-flash the B…

>I remember most laptops nowadays can re-flash the BIOS from an attached USB with specific format and layout Source for this? I've seen it available on various enthusiast desktop motherboards, but I haven't seen it on laptops. I haven't even seen it on the pricier thinkpad line.

For my Thinkpad X1 Carbon (Gen 5), I download the ISOs from here: https://pcsupport.lenovo.com/us/en/products/laptops-and-netb...

And I use my re-write of geteltorio to flash it on a USB drive: https://github.com/hspak/geteltorito-zig

I've done this multiple times now without issues, but your milage by vary!

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