Did the banana have gold plated contacts??

Besides privacy also moral reasons, using megacorps services means giving them money/power/data which in turn helps them do all the direct & indirect evils they do & influence (from exploiting monopolies & influencing demand side, to lobbying for lower taxes & legislature to keep/increase their monopoly, even just blankly supporting fascists political options bcs that has a great chance to enrich their shareholder value regardless of all the other effects, etc).

You know, try to leave a better place than you got it & whatnot.

Yeah, same.
It’s about the only megacorp thing I actively use (beside Steam, tho purely for downloading games), but I won’t help normalise & support such bs (ofc I never bought Nitro bcs I’m not supporting bs monetisation).

Sadly prob none of the small communities I chat with every day will migrate to Revolt/Stout, so I’ll just lose this part of my life/daily memes.

Not just that, there are devices to keep standard wall plug devices (eg a single PSU without UPS computer) powered on.

Hot plug field kit for UPS & non-UPS devices, demonstrated on a standard PC:
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I’m sure more kits exist for other cases, I’m just saying that the practical part of this process isn’t complicated.

Now, is the software written in a way that it wipes RAM if it’s disconnected from the network for more than a minute?
Idk.

Maybe the kids were playing too much wiki/America’s_Army and alike :D.

/s

Wait, I don’t have to update it through dev mode?

And how much better would a TV box even be compared to a smart TV?

Exactly.

My parents are fully on Linux since early dual core CPUs & the only things that didn’t work or they didn’t know how to do was after upgrades. “They” hopped many distros (some very niche, but lots of years on Debians) & I soon came to realise that I don’t need to explain to them what I did when I would change distros.

They run Tumbleweed for quite a few years (5?) now with 0 work on my side (yay!!).

Then again, they (and other family and friends) aren’t demanding power users, they don’t even game.

Second for Tumbleweed!!
The low-to-nothing maintenance rolling release (in my experience). I recommend it if you have to maintain computers of family & friends (no more release upgrades, out of the box snapshots, etc).

It’s so friendly & hard to break (for a normal person).

I know opinions vary, but I also love zypper.

Kinda the same since 2006 (using Windows for gaming), however I never used Mint & for the last five (?) years installed Tumbleweed to various family & friends machines (it’s my daily driver too).

I only add this to the discussion bcs it’s a rolling release that is perhaps hard to break for a normal person & low maintenance (no real upgrades, zypper, btrfs).

I like to mention Tumbleweed bcs of how much time it saved me fixing other ppls puters (all of them very non-demanding tho).

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Did you sign an NDA and this is the only version of the story you are legally allowed to repeat?

(I’m glad for stories like that - I lived visiting factories/companies and farms throughout all school days. Kids need to understand what the production factors are & how logistics connects us all.)

How many drowned?
Who got the factory at the end??

… is the workforce paid???

And managers are all hyped over AI or they don’t get hired (it’s always some bs like this, like everything was “agile” at one point, etc).

And

Active use of AI tools in daily development workflows, and enthusiasm for helping the team increase adoption

Yes, the body on those is extra nice, but just not quite as good if you are attentive to such things.
(Forgot to mention I also dislike wide-screens on laptops since I’m never gonna use it for videos.)

I def don’t want a “low res” screen either (that close I can actually appreciate the additional sharpness), years (5?) ago I have bought a new (from a store) Chuwi laptop for a little over 200 monies with a higher resolution screen, metal body, and a mightily Celeron (I used it only to connect to my home lab so it’s fine).
Also the battery is ofc shitty & spicy after a few cycles. Weirdly ok-ish keyboard.

Ok … but is this like a marketing strat for engagement (they will apologise, revert the practice, get like an official stance on AI, & get publicity along the way) or was it just for the ease of the process?

I’m guessing but artists prob weren’t a big budget figure for their needs, so it not cutting costs that much, right?

You own the hardware, but you don’t get any documentation.

I just want macbook-level non-computing hardware (the case & hinges, screen, keyboard, mostly, but good speakers, mics & battery are a bonus too) & it’s not that ez to find in laptops (if there even are comparable puters out there).

I don’t need much computing power, 16GB RAM is plenty too, tho I wouldn’t say no to a 15h battery.

It’s just my use case - I want something built really good even if it has a Pentium in it (not that I’m comparing Ms to Pentiums) .
And I also don’t wanna spend 3+k monies for a laptop I’m about to use a few times a year.

Nothing else fits my case, I might try it for the lolz.