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Post by tehjoker »

8bitsrule wrote: post #230
tehjoker wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Chomsky on advertising: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfIwUlY44CM - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYoKRS_eWZY

I respect Chomsky's well-constructed, dark analyses of how we got where we are. He usually stops after this 20-20 hindsight. The messy part, what to do about it, is left to the Chomsky consumer. Unfortunate for those who can only respond with depression or attempts to revive the past.

Yea... to be honest, after listening to Chomsky and doing activism for years, I think that's because effective action looks like things that would destabilize the US imperial state and economic system. Chomsky is tolerated in academia because he stops short of saying such things and sharply criticizes Communist countries often in ways that do not feel as solid as his research. I think he's very much worth listening to on the problems, but I ignore him on solutions.

You can't solve these problems while leaving concentrated centers of market power intact. Nor can you leave the market system that would regenerate them intact either. The trust busters took action in the early 20th century but here we are in a place where it's even worse than before. Nor can we leave the arms manufacturers and military contractors intact either. If all that goes, so does US dominance over world affairs and the influence of the dollar. To that I say: good.

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Post by fomine3 »

mhb wrote: post #240
fomine3 wrote: post #225

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You should choose X2xx or T4xx line over X1. X1 is designed to be.

Can you give me a pointer to an X2xx that has a comparable keyboard and trackpoint to the old ones?

Nope. But X2xx/T4xx features still decent keyboard and TrackPoint compared to others including X1.

Also you may know ThinkPad 25, that based on T470.

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Post by bkraz »

why_Mr_Anderson wrote: post #63
bkraz wrote: post #39

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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.

I haven't worked on EDM in a while. Check out BaxEDM and his other customers for a DIY wire EDM design. The BaxEDM channel recently showed one of those ultra right tolerance sliding parts where the joint disappears.

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Post by Bud »

kcb wrote: post #237
Bud wrote: post #147

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Yes, you can run the latest Linux. Linux now has native M1 support. Yes, Apple did finally fix the awful keyboards on its laptops from 2016-2020, and their keyboards are once again quite good. The trackpad is what it has always been: the best on any computer at any price. I'm not aware that Apple offers any kind of on-site warranty service, so that's a no, but the flipside is that you are much less likely to need it…

>Yes, you can run the latest Linux. Linux now has native M1 support. Lets not promise the moon here. The M1's Linux support is far from complete and definitely not ready for general use.

Thanks for the correction; it does have kernel support for the latest Linux kernel, but yeah, it's not a mature port yet. I do expect that it will have full support very soon, however.

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Post by pdkl95 »

q-rews wrote: post #128
xg15 wrote: post #106

What is increasingly scaring me: This time, the vendor was "nice" enough to only force you into viewing a subscription offer. However, there is really nothing technical that would keep them from forcing you to take the subscription if you want to continue using your device. Vendors have enough control about locked-down devices that they could play ransomware and make arbitrary demands to their users without many prob…

Yeah, sure, technically any vendor can push updates to brick your device, but that doesn’t happen because of the law. This stuff often gets through because it’s small enough, gray enough, and done by smaller companies. Have Apple pull something like this and you’ll see on the NYT.

> but that doesn’t happen

Doesn't happen yet. Entire industries are trying to bypass basic property law so you "own" your purchases in name only and the manufacturer has control de facto. The video game industry has been saying "buy or product" when they really mean "subscribe to our service"[1] for a long time. Bricking old multiplayer gamed had been common practice for years, and now some singleplayer games have been unnecessarily bricked when the publisher e.g. shut down the DRM server.

Companies like John Deere have been extending this strategy into their hardware for a while. The damage doesn't even have to be "bricking your device"; HN regularly features stories about forced updates that remove paid-for features.

> Have Apple pull something like this and you’ll see on the NYT.

Apple got close when their devices suddenly stopped running 3rd party software in the recent "OCSP Apocalypse".

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUAX0gnZ3Nw

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Post by flatiron »

linuxhansl wrote: post #111
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.

I run a recent X1 Extreme (Gen 2) with Fedora as OS and aside from the the weird naming have zero complaints about it.

Lenovo still wins in regards to Linux compatibility. I don’t even really check anymore before buying one for friends and family.

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Post by elif »

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…

FWIW i just went through the exact same thing with my surface. "it's time to update" > "you're in an unescapable blue screen boot loop"

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Post by silisili »

elric wrote: post #22
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…

Digital TV in Belgium now includes unskippable ads, including in recordings of those shows. The reason why people switched to digital TV subscriptions, of course, was to be able to skip those ads in the first place. Apparently Netflix can afford to offer a wide variety of content for a small monthly fee, without any ads, and spend money on content creation; but digital TV stations somehow don't make enough money off…

When cable TV was introduced in the US, one selling point was 'you pay for it, so no ads.' That didn't last long.

Is there some kind of meme/law that insists that over time every product gets ads... because there probably should be.

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Post by rossy »

Octoth0rpe wrote: post #196
evilduck wrote: post #100

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Thank you for replying. I don't mean this as a dig at you or your choices but from a cursory glance that model has a significantly worse screen, a weird nose-and-finger webcam on the bottom of the screen, negligible price and spec differences (or probably a much worse value proposition compared to an M1 if you're ok with macOS and ARM), a touchpad which is pretty certain to be worse than Apple's, and a plastic body i…

> nose-and-finger webcam on the bottom of the screen FWIW, I believe they've fixed this in recent revisions, as well as added a 16:10 ratio screen. This is one of the very few laptops I'd consider vs a macbook at this point, especially given the preinstalled linux option.

The display seems to be fixed as well, with the new OLED XPSes having a wider gamut than the Macs.

For what it's worth, it's the touchpads and displays that keep pushing me away from the 13-inch MBP. I much prefer the feel of most PC precision touchpads to the grainy texture of the MBP touchpad. As for the display, I like to set high-DPI displays to 2x scaling, since it tends to look and work better, but the 13-inch MBP's 2560x1600px only has 1280x800dp of real estate at 2x scaling, which feels very cramped in comparison to the 1920x1080dp of real estate on my XPS 13's 3840x2160px display.

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Post by Superblazer »

neogodless wrote: post #150
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.

Anecdote: Over the past few years, I've owned an Asus laptop (thin/light), two Lenovo laptops, and an HP. Before that, a large Dell gaming laptop. Most recently, I had bought the HP Omen 15, but realizing that the screen used PWM below 100% brightness, I sold it and bought a Lenovo Legion 5. The previous Lenovo is a Y540. The Y540 is arguably "good but not great" build quality. If you squint, it looks kind of like th…

PWM?
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