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You used to be able to replace/extend ThinkPad parts quite easily. We'd buy base models exclusively and just add extra stick of ram and flip the CD rom to another hard drive or battery - those were super cheap high quality laptops.

Only recently Lenovo started to solder their parts so base models lost their power :(

I used t490s for a while and that has been my favorite machine since forever. In general ThinkPads are the way to go by the looks of it!

My work gave me MacBook 16" 2020 and probably the worst business laptop I have ever had. The screen is smudgy and glary, the keyboard is awful, touch bar is a meme, no ports and finally it literally cuts my wrists because it was designed to be looked at not used.

It's an objectively awful laptop.

I really don't get it. How much difference could 8 to 16gb be in terms of price? Is Apple really doing this to save 20$ per machine?

Even if you somehow could argue that 8 is all you need now, what about in few years? No one should ever buy this device.

Honestly that doesn't sound so much for a late civilization.

The instant question this title raises: how hard would it be to move a planet into close orbit of the sun?

Weirdly enough I never came up to a similar scenario in countless sci-fi books. I'd imagine it would be so expensive that if we were capable of it we would probably wouldn't need/want it as other alternatives would be much more efficient, right?

The thought of designed solar system is interesting - what if we FTL is an unbeatable barrier - we might just be stuck here and populate our system with hundreds of rogue passerby planets!

Se 2016 is 123x58

Se 2020 is 138x67

12 mini is 132x64

S10e is 142x69

So s10e is still the biggest one of "high-end small phones" though it has the best screen ratio by far. I do think mini might be just the right size! I hope this will prompt more small phones on the market!

S10e came out year and a half ago! Unfortunate despite everyone complaining no one bought it and we didnt get s20e. Seriously that has been the best smart phone I've ever used or heard of and if mine dies I'm buying the exact same one.

Seems like you've discovered the philosophy of Accelerationism!

Sometimes it does feel that embracing awful system is the best way to topple it.

I've been using various smart watches (currently on galaxy active) and I love them but I still feel that it's only slightly more than a meme.

The core functionality is just gamification like step counts, "hey get up reminders" and some rather pointless blood metrics.

What is great imho is the customizable watches and bands. The bands are like 1$ each and the are like a thousand of brilliant watch faces.

I think smart watches are much better for fashion than function.

I'm sure it's not a coincidence that one of the biggest western social media apps - Instagram - launched a direct clone of tiktok. So far IG reels are dead but if TikTok gets banned there's an undeniable benefit for IG, right?

> I have no problem at all with Bezos being worth $200 billion

Really? You have no problem one person owning so much money? That's around 30$ for _every_ person on the planet, can you even wrap your head around that? There's no reason why a single person should ever own this sort of wealth, none at all.

> Microsoft is just selling unopinionated software to all businesses in the world

You have to be satirical right? Microsoft is notorious for lobbying everything to this day. Browser monopolies, OS monopolies, they pretty much invented EEE, made whole cities switch to their OS and the whole xbox platform is very political regarding software, gambling and IP politics.

Real question here is: should the passport number have any expectations of privacy? It seems like such an easy thing to expose as you literally put it down on every document like hotel check ins etc. AFAIK it's not even a random number and instead it's generated from basic info like birth year/place/gender.

That being said it was a really good blog!

Is shaving off 1% really justifies such a hack? The web is already so extremely implicit that even seasoned web-developers are lost in it.