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Kbin does that sometimes

If I have to have microplastics in my balls, then the fish do too dammit!

I know it’s kinda cheating to bring them up in this context, but the Swiss manage to run trains to very small towns just fine

Car bad, train good

I fucking hate stroads

If we’re going old school, go old school. Oldest kid rides in the bed.

Russia could’ve, y’know, just not done an illegal invasion of Ukraine.

While true, the general cultural preference for larger vehicles will inherently carryover to when people are deciding what EV to buy.

Anyone who’s name is an anagram for The Reptile invalidates your entire premise…

You don’t know even know my real name, I’m the fucking Lizard King

There’s plenty of tech from my younger days that was fun then that I wouldn’t find fun now. An original iPod is not one of those.

Sure, if you use it for an hour a day, you’re not gonna notice it much. And I’m not disagreeing that a lot of the software sorely needs to be improved. The people who are going to notice aren’t you. They’re the ones using their devices all day for work or similar.

Hoping they have success, but to say that their laptop chips are truly mainstream, at least in the same sense that Apple gives, is a bit generous I feel.

Obviously the X series has a decent shot at changing that, which I really hope it does.

It being ugly has absolutely fuckall to do with the structural integrity

I like keeping tabs on it, as they’re really the only ones pushing mainstream high end ARM chips at the moment.

The primary benefit for the average consumer tends to be longer battery life due to the same task using less power, in theory anyway.

I’m assuming it’s unnecessary and out of place sarcasm

In general life? Sure. Students? Absolutely not, at least not once you get to college. Sure you can get away with only using school computer labs, but trying to do homework without a computer is borderline impossible these days. Most online homework sites either outright don’t work on mobile or are such a pain in the ass that they may as well not.

I think I generally agree with all that. One good side effect is I think this will be the push that gets Linux a bit more mainstream*. It’s pretty easy to sideload Linux onto most Chromebooks, so I think a good chunk of kids that like tinkering with stuff are going to try it out, more so than the past. ChromeOS is a lot more restrictive than windows, so there’s a bigger incentive to get around it.

• emphasis on a bit. Frankly I don’t think I see a world where Linux has a proper foothold in the mainstream unfortunately.

As much as I don’t want to give LTT credit, I think Linus has a point with Chromebooks. Google is playing the long game with them. Students almost exclusively use them these days, and anecdotally, most of them are getting chromebooks and the like for college now that they’re getting to that age. That’s at least been the case for almost every family member I’ve had that’s started college in the last 5 years.

It’s only going to continue as the average Chromebook legitimately is becoming more powerful, and Steam compatibility is improving. You’re going to see a whole lot of people who see no need for a PC/mac.

The fact that anyone who thought buying one of these was a good idea has enough money to do so is proof that we don’t live in a meritocracy

Funnily enough, taking my glasses off in a dream and still being able to see is how I’ve realized I was I a dream a couple times. Unfortunately I immediately get way too excited at the prospect and immediately wake up every time haha