Soldered in, or upgradeable at least? The former would be a huge reason to never buy the newest gen of laptops.

EDIT: Missed in article, yeah this would suck if they stick to soldered RAM for ultra-thins.

Another problem manufacturers face is with notebooks that ship with soldered DRAM. In particular, ultrathin designs would need to be revamped to modify their configurations.

And soon you’ll have to agree to not criticize members of the Saudi Royal Family or disparage their name…

This is really wholesome, good on that other dev!

I recently heard a saying which I’m still trying to take to heart and apply to my own troubles working on creative pursuits: “Comparison is the thief of joy”.

We’re all so connected and online these days, it’s all too easy to see the work of others, and either feel “it has all been done before, what’s the point?”, or “this other person is so good I’ll never reach their level”.

To the Great White North! Take off, it’s a beauty way to go

Anti-<topic> Billionaires Have Always Been Able to Control What People in General See.

We don’t need/want a huge TV, so we just use a monitor with an external speaker and dedicated media box.

Smart TVs these days are just too invasive to even consider in my home.

Mandatory overtime? The games industry is slavery, unionize NOW for fuck’s sake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaqFkFExi3M

Thanks, will check it out. I agree it should be the client/user’s choice. I guess I would just like awareness of xcancel to get out there so people know about it as a way to avoid giving that site any more traffic.

This really is a new front in the war on general-purpose computing for regular people. The EU or some entity big enough that’s outside of the US needs to fund new memory fabs ASAP and get this industry out of the hands of the present cartel.

Nooooooooooo :)

Well at least it’s an option, not mandatory.

Please, leave the UI theme alone. No ribbons, no ultra-low contrast borderless buttons/textareas.

Good. The more projects that move off of github, the better. It’s a dangerous dependency-sinkhole at this point, and has been for some time. De-centralize!

Well that could be considered the point where we lost our innocence, yeah. :(

Good point. On that note I am very happy having moved my home server from Apache to Caddy. The auto cert config is very nice.

More the latter :) … if only we could all just get along and be nicer to each other. Sigh.

Oh, definitely rose-coloured, but I am thinking even before those days… like when access to Usenet was restricted to colleges and universities, dial-up BBSes … and I didn’t use Windows or MacOS at all back then. ActiveX and js didn’t even exist back then. Boot-sector floppy viruses did, but those were easy to guard against.

Neat, saw this just after I posted to the thread. Gonna bookmark this!

I’ve heard Chromebooks are such a pain to put alternative OSes on due to their BIOs. Are there efforts to just reflash these things so they aren’t beholden to Alphabet? That would be the most libre-resistance move: “Un-Chrome” the device permanently.

Hmm as I was typing this I did a quick search: https://libreboot.org/docs/install/chromebooks.html

…but that’s only for ARM Chromebooks.

Oh, I’m really just pining for the days before the ‘Eternal September’, I suppose. We can’t go back, I know. :/