Bikeshedding, or why I want to build a laptop

Post by dang » Mon, Dec 08, 2025, 9:50 PM UTC

Yokolos wrote: post #250

dang wrote: post #249

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Could you please not post in the flamewar style to HN? You've done it repeatedly in this thread, unfortunately, and we're trying for the opposite here. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

That's unfair. I'm going unfairly called out even though I stand by my beliefs and I'm only trying to defend myself. How are the replies to my comments in any way acceptable and according to HN guidelines??? "Put your money where your mouth is", come on. That's not acceptable and it's provoking. How can you defend bullies like this?

Post by forty » Mon, Dec 08, 2025, 10:59 PM UTC

andriesm wrote: post #160

forty wrote: post #90

I think the kind of laptop this person wishes should simply be made illegal to make. We cannot sustain having all electric devices being thrown after a year or two, these things need to last, to be repairable and make it easy to grab pieces and materials when they die anyway

I also want it. I dislike this idea "make it illegal I don't want other people to have the freedom to do something I dislike". Of you don't like unupgradable products, then don't buy them. I like upgradability - apple makes some things like the SSD non-uogradeable without much benefit. But many other parts gain different benefits when you don't try to make everything infinitely upgradable. I really want this non-ensh…

Post by no-stegosaur » Tue, Dec 09, 2025, 12:22 PM UTC

maccard wrote: post #128

procaryote wrote: post #86

The framework model is the reasonable approach to people being finnicky about their laptop specs. You can't sustain "I want it just so" and "it needs to be a cnc-machined glued together brick, engineered to the last gramme" at the same time, without a step change in how we build hardware, but the framework comes pretty close If linux power management got a bit better, and there was a good arm chip, it would be a grea…

> If linux power management got a bit better Honestly this is the thing that holds me back from using not a mac. My MacBook is always at the same battery level when I open it as it was when I closed it. My windows laptop regularly decides to do _something_ overnight and is dead when I try to use it, about once a week.

Post by forgetfulness » Tue, Dec 09, 2025, 5:42 PM UTC

scrollaway wrote: post #93

chrisandchris wrote: post #85

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You know as a company that you have gone out of the ability to create something if you come up first with name changes of existing products. Looking at you, Office (or whatever your name is today).

Google Workspace hasn’t changed its name in a few years now. Do you think it’s due for a change or has it finally sobered up?

Post by Teknomadix » Thu, Dec 11, 2025, 4:58 PM UTC

antonkochubey wrote: post #126

Teknomadix wrote: post #71

geohot: "I want a laptop with a high-end AMD chip, great Linux power management, good docs, solid build, and a normal name" My brother in christ, the ThinkPad T14s Gen 5 AMD exists. Zen 5, aluminum chassis, legendary Linux support, actual power state documentation. They been doing this for 30 years. Dude, you're bikeshedding a product that's been sitting in the enterprise aisle this whole time ThinkPads have been the…

Not sure what laptop you confused it with, but T14s Gen 5 is sold with Intel CPUs only.