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ain't no way i am affording one, but it would have been nice to choose if you want a touch panel or not, just like the matt finish.

clearly it will be a while before it would be a standard across the lineup (air is still fanless, perhaps to a fault), so allow someone to continue the old way without needing additional complexities with a touchscreen. perhaps allow to save by downgrading to a non-touch one?

regardless, oled panels tend to be a mixed bag in terms of text rendering. i wonder if they did a good job with theirs. having adaptive refresh would definitely help those on dark mode in terminal to eek out even more life out of their laptop.

welcome change if so i suppose. however the better half of the past decade have been rough for sourcing for them, but they keep making decisions that often don't make sense in terms of consistency.

i'd understand using micro-usb on a $5 sbc, but now with themselves charging for accessories, especially on the rpi 5 with the $15 power supply, something's gotta give.

i appreciate the challenges with properly supporting a standard at a reasonable component cost. but in a sea of poorly designed usb-c, doing micro-usb otg for the new zero would be outright ridiculous if they go ahead with it.

the video out has similar grievances where a cheap usb-c dongle is better than adapting hdmi in niche, fragile ways. i hope the model a still allows using the bandwidth provided by the soc to still add ethernet and regular connectivity for those who would rather implement it themselves.

whether the focus is at commercial partners or still the foundation's core audience, i hope they stop nickel and diming on the simpler components going forward. tough times to make hardware as usual but i hope they keep on trucking with the releases.

the designs shown by op are wayyy out there. the ones i've grown up with were much more spartan in comparison. just having any lights, forget the ones used for actual lighting, remains a foreign concept to me. these ones look like the lighting and looks have higher priority than the core function.

for me just having a brushless motor and a remote was good enough lol. maybe smart home functionality nowadays perhaps.

quite interesting to see the public discourse over ethics of the current buzzword. meanwhile people have been happily getting mad rich through software companies making money through addiction, ads and surveillance throughout the last couple decades.

also, all of this seems like crying wolf as usual, which won't help for when we finally get there. lowkey, following this noise is getting as horrible as getting all your news from linkedin posts.

this release could be an email or a website post. they happen to do a devday so i understand the formal announcement i suppose.

meanwhile the downgrade to the 200 plan, while not as outrageous as github copilot, is just not good pr fwiw. the base number, i.e. what plus users get, is arbitrary as it is, so there was no need to break the appearance of "20x". using the efficiency excuse is not helping here lol. same as further segmentation of pro plans with ultrafast mode.

a lot of the discourse and mania around this topic reminds of of the movie don't look up.

while not my cup of tea and not going to rewatch it, i see a repeat of a lot of the ways people react to "world-changing" topics.

or in other words, a lot of hand-waving since past few years is only going to be crying wolf when maybe we ever get there. perhaps before nuclear fusion or gta 6!

given the trend, the next airpods pro has to be remarkably different or only 30 usd over the wireless option for the base 5.

we got access to their platform from work. the "best" model, or the one i've used the most so far is GLM-5.2!

for all the promise, i would temper my expectations for a frontier model for coding or general purpose. but for niche use cases (document parsing, voice*, etc.) and as a platform to handle finetuned versions, etc. for small-ish pilots, i can see the value of partnering with them.

if the core model could be any open-weights solution out there, the moat dissolves really quickly.

maybe my brain is fried when the first thing i think of is "show bobs"