Wasn’t Theora the set-and-forget free option? Don’t recall if it had the “good” part tho.

Oh you sweet child.

This post is actually so stupid, they didn’t take shit from us, it’s still right there.

It’s not. it’s quite visibly not there.

USB-A/B is very outdated.

I take it you are offering to provide me with the adapters needed for all my USB-A devices, and my square-USB printers, for free? Because your mouth certainly runs well oiled.

USB-C can be used to deliver audio, video, ethernet connection, etc. You didn’t lose any functionality. Worst case scenario you’d need a hub for the card readers or a usb to usb-c adapter, or ethernet to usb-c.

Worst case scenario is if you have one sole USB-C connector and it breaks or is damaged. You’d lose all the eggs you had in one basket, whereas with separate adequate connectors you’d at least get to keep some workflow.

I think you mean a Ethernet to USB-C cable?

In any case, I already have the bad experience of Ethernet to USB-A cables not working, and not being able to know if they need some sort of driver. Not even on Linux, which is weird enough for me to temporarily give up on them and prefer built-in to bolt-in for something that’s so important.

To be fair, if I was going for a laptop I defo wouldn’t be doing this so-called “aaa” gaming. The good quality games are the oldies, the NES, SNES era, the CPS arcades. Those run well emulated on a decently-sized potato.

The PITA is that I use RJ45 pretty much every day. It’s not just a matter of “oh there’s wifi everywhere”; 99% of wifis everywhere are not open, or are actually not connected to the networks I’m working on, or I need the physical connector to diagnose wire / networking issues; and the performance of wifi on Linux on refurbrished machines tends to be subpar and they tend to not allow for “developer mode” options (playing with your MAC, WPA supplanting, etc).

If Tesla, the actual Tesla, had given us technology instead of the thief Elon Edison, then perhaps we’d somehow have point-to-point wireless RJ45 that would function everywhere, and I wouldn’t need the connector.

At least those are still here in my country, so yeah. Might be an option.

Yeah, but it feels like they’re mostly worth it. Like, if there was ever a reason to get into the world of international smuggling, those machines would be The good justification.

Or just a little dongle with both of these ports which can be plugged in on any usb-c on any side?

Dongles break, slide off, cause disconnects, can cause internal damage to the connector if the cables you have to connect are heavy, etc…, I already have the bad experience of having to use a USB hub to attach storage.

When it comes to engineering, I’m of the opinion that built-in > bolt in.

I’ve been thinking about it, the main issue is how to get it shipped to my country in a way that I don’t end up paying about 4 times the cost of an already expensive machine.

I think trying to do a “modern web browser” which is almost like a whole OS, is the wrong path to take. To retake the internet, we need to return to the basics. A simple web browser that does, at best, HTML and CSS. Heck, maybe even Gopher / Gemini support. No javascript, no worry about code execution, no “dynamics”. Much easier to develop and maintain, and promotes a leaner and safer internet.

Now, be it a hobby project or some sort of, by miraculous intervention, cleaned-up Mozilla, that I leave to the peoples.

8.8 inches (22 cm for civilized folks)

would have to basically “chinese man squinting meme” at any serious work

no function key row

no physical navigation keys

not even the physical keys for braces

Fam, thanks but am looking for daily driving some sort of laptop, not a glorified smartphone.

As someone who daily drives a laptop for work and does field work on server facilities, finding a modern replacement that has both a RJ45 port and square USB (USB-A?) ports available on both sides, has been a pain in the hassle.

And I’m not even crying over the loss of VGA any longer. That one I can live without.

Millions of games run well on Linux, and that’s not counting eg.: Steam.

Tell me you don’t understand what “remote gui” means without telling me.

Fam, my experience was one (1) (uno) year ago. And during those five years Wayland made zero progress by itself - it was everyone else who had to do the job of Wayland for free.

Their faces omg!!! The void unveils its hunger!

I’ve had cats on churu before. I’ve gone on record on how Churu is basically like fentanyl for them.

tbh the situation with Wayland was not too different, and wouldn’t have been better. Compared to Wayland, brtfs dodged a bullet. Overhyped, oversold, overcrowdsourced, literally years behind the system it was supposed to “replace” when it was thrown into production. To this day, wayland can’t even complete a full desktop session login on my machine.

So, if you ask me, btrfs should *definitively not * have been Wayland! Can you imagine if btrfs had launched on Fedora, and then you formatted your partition as btrfs to install Linux, but the installer could not install into it? “brtfs reports a writer is not available”, says the installer. You go to the forums to ask what’s going on, why the brtfs does not work. The devs of brtfs respond with “oh it’s just a protocol; everyone who wants to write files into our new partition format have to implement a writer themselves”.

We ought to improve as humanity so we can deserve Gabe.

Sounds cute, but in the US electoral system having a “massive lead” among a state’s {subset} of {subset} matters exactly zero. All that matters is having the lead in the whole state proper.