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eltimablo

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I'm only still here because account deletion is broken on KBin.

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eltimablo ,

Not to mention, it's a standard now, and the old Supercharger protocol is being phased out in favor of another standardized one (I forget which). Further development done on their chargers from here on out is going to be done by a consortium of companies rather than in-house anyway.

eltimablo ,

It's the final laptop in the same way that Theseus's boat was the last one he ever bought. You can replace bits piecemeal, but at some point you'll end up with enough leftovers for a whole new laptop.

That said, I have an Intel one and it's a fantastic laptop. Also, not only are the motherboards capable of running on their own outside the laptop, but they've partnered with Cooler Master to make little cases for them so you can turn old mobos into mini PCs.

eltimablo ,

Apple doesn't provide board-level schematics so that anyone with a good supplier and a steady hand with a soldering iron can fix their motherboard, though. You also can't replace parts nearly as easily, even on older MacBooks. Swappable ports also help, so that if HDMI or displayport get replaced you can change to the new standard.

Accessing the RAM, wifi, and SSD are only 5 screws away, and they give you a screwdriver in the package.

Basically, Framework has provided so much information that you could practically build one from scratch yourself with enough determination and self-loathing.

eltimablo ,

Are you on Windows or Linux on the 16?

eltimablo ,

Discrete video or no. That’s also fine, but a lot of vendors provide this option.

Yeah, but not as a user-serviceable module that can be replaced with minimal effort. I think you're grossly oversimplifying this point.

eltimablo ,

Just curious. Proton takes all of that effort out of the equation, plus I'm willing to bet there aren't as many driver problems, if there are any at all.

eltimablo ,

If 1000 satellites is all it takes to "erode the atmosphere" to a point where earth is uninhabitable, we're already fucked a thousand times over.

eltimablo ,

Quiet, we're trying to get mad at people we've never met over problems we made up over here.

eltimablo ,

Apple bad for walled garden environment, so when Apple eases the restrictions on their walled garden, voluntarily or involuntarily, they're still bad?

eltimablo ,

Holy shit, it's so easy to make people on this site mad by just responding to their comments. I'm literally just trying to make sense of your shit take.

eltimablo ,

Opening your mouth about any topic is how you get called that on Lemmy. Its community will mercifully ensure its own downfall.

eltimablo ,

Just so you know, you can do Spotify and Tidal now with premium connectivity, too. Tidal is basically the only reason I have it, because the speakers are good enough for the sound quality difference to be noticeable. I agree with the rest of your points, though.

eltimablo ,

Yeah but one of the reasons to pay for Tidal is the sound quality, and bluetooth sounds objectively worse than streaming directly on the car. Also, how am I supposed to maintain a wifi connection while moving? I'm not about to tether my phone every time I get in the car.

eltimablo ,

I mean wifi tethering. Sure, I could set up Tasker to turn it on once it detects that I'm in the car, but I'd personally rather save myself the effort.

eltimablo ,

So I WAS right to put a smiley face in every sun I drew as a kid. TAKE THAT, MR. MOCK.

eltimablo ,

Ah, the old Ad Adblock Plus strategy.

eltimablo ,

There's still beauty in the world and it depresses me that you can't find any for yourself.

eltimablo ,

Bro, the modern communist movement operates over Twitter. Are you suggesting communism is right-wing somehow?

eltimablo ,

You’re not very bright, are you?

Cool, that's the end of this conversation then. I hope your day is as pleasant as you are.

eltimablo ,

You know what, you've changed my mind. We should all kill ourselves instead.

eltimablo ,

BG3 runs more reliably on Linux for me, though my Windows install is getting old and crusty these days.

eltimablo , (edited )

Unpopular opinion: I'm concerned that widespread adoption of Linux would mean a reduction in functionality for power users. Considering that the majority of "regular user" effort seems to be going into gaming, I'm doubly concerned that the first major group to embrace Linux would be Gamers, a demographic I think is capable of doing untold damage to the ecosystem at large.

I'd probably move to FreeBSD if things got to that point.

EDIT: by "Gamers" I don't mean people who like video games, I mean the people who make video games their entire personality and assume they understand everything about a computer because they managed to install Steam without blowing away their entire OS.

eltimablo ,

That's a fair point, but I've already seen what one uninformed, idiotic YouTuber (LTT) is capable of achieving by closing his eyes, putting his fingers in his ears, stamping his feet, and whipping his equally uninformed followers into a frenzy over an issue that was almost entirely his own fault. I fully expect such events to continue as Linux gains popularity.

eltimablo ,

Yeah I never cared for him much before, but I also never cared about him much either. Now I actively despise him, which I guess is a form of successful marketing in that I'm still talking about him, but fuck it.

EDIT to add: I vaguely remember hearing that Civics were all compatible with the same parts regardless of model year, but I don't know how true that is.

eltimablo ,

IIRC it was specifically Civics made after a certain year. I wanna say 1994? Subaru is super big on the concept, too, though. It's actually where they got their name ("Subaru" apparently means "unity" in Japanese).

eltimablo ,

In my experience, YouTube is almost universally shit for anything to do with software. I've stopped bothering trying to find any software YouTubers and rely on blogs instead.

eltimablo ,

Yeah but at least our smugness isn't based off 30-year-old information, unlike yours.

eltimablo ,

YOU MEAN I HAVE TO PUT MY SHOES ON MY FEET MYSELF‽ UTTERLY UNUSABLE!

-Mr_Blott, probably

eltimablo ,

What smells like copium in here?

eltimablo ,

But doctor, I am Pagliacci the bassist.

eltimablo ,

Look, if the frontman would just loosen the purse strings a little bit, I could afford to buy a much better bass while I continue to starve.

eltimablo ,

The world needs waaaay more editors, too...

eltimablo ,

Tangentially relevant at best.

eltimablo ,

You, for one. I imagine that's why you posted it in the first place.

eltimablo ,

It's much better than it was

eltimablo ,

This is the stupidest idea I've ever heard. You don't fine a bank for getting robbed. This reeks of frontend engineer idiocy, which is ironically the exact type of idiocy that tends to cause breaches like this.

eltimablo ,

It'll also screw over anyone trying to break into the market, ensuring that the big tech companies remain unchallenged indefinitely.

eltimablo ,

Ok then, how about considering that this will only serve to benefit the big tech companies because they're the ones that can afford the fines? A breach is usually enough to make a smaller company go out of business already between cleanup and lawsuits. Why make it easier for the big tech companies to maintain power?

eltimablo ,

I did miss that, but again, it's additional fines on top of an almost guaranteed lawsuit for something that may not even be their fault. If they got owned by a Heartbleed exploit back when it was first announced and a fix wasn't available yet, should a company be responsible for that? What about when they get hit by a vuln that's been stockpiled for a couple years and purposely has no fix due to interference from bad actors? There are a lot of situations where fining someone for getting breached doesn't make sense.

eltimablo ,

And I'll counter with this: no system is perfect, especially when major parts are made by non-employees. Mistakes can and do happen because corporations, regardless of size, are made up of humans, and humans are really good at fucking up.

eltimablo , (edited )

Your bridge analogy falls apart because there already are standards (FIPS, among others) that are shockingly insecure despite having been updated relatively recently, and yet we still have breaches. If the standards were effective, places like AmerisourceBergen, the country's largest pharmaceutical distributor, wouldn't be supplementing them with additional safeguards. No standard is going to work perfectly, or even particularly well, for everyone. Bridges still fall down.

EDIT: Alternatively, there would need to be a provision that allows companies to sue the government if they get breached while following their standards, since it was the government that said they were safe.

eltimablo ,

When you say "corporations," it seems like you're exclusively counting companies like Google, Meta, etc, whereas I'm also including the mom and pop, 15-person operations that would be impacted by the same regulations you suggest. Those underdogs are the ones I want to protect, since they're the only chance the world has at dethroning the incumbents and ensuring that the big guys don't outlive their usefulness.

eltimablo ,

See, I figure all of those things would be accounted for in whatever civil suit gets brought against the company. Frankly, I think that's much more fair to companies both big and small because it involves a group of people working together to figure how much of a fine to levy in each individual instance, rather than having a blanket policy that may or may not account for edge cases. If the company is huge and the fuckup egregious, then the jury is (theoretically) going to throw the book at them.

At the very least, I'd want a jury in between the company and whichever government body is fining them, because regulatory bodies are prime targets for corporate shills to take over and it's harder for that to run rampant if you have a bunch of regular jackoffs acting as gatekeepers.

There's also the issue of ongoing compliance for small companies. Cybersecurity engineers are not cheap, and being all but required by law to employ one could (1) drive small companies out of business (180k a year may be cheap for Facebook, but it's definitely not for Joe Buttsniffer and Sons Catering), and (2) cause market saturation so bad that the average salary makes nobody want to do the job anymore.

eltimablo ,

Yeah it really comes back to "fines are only for poor people." Google can just count the fines as the cost of doing business while simultaneously leveraging their dominance to force other companies to break regulations in order to work with them.

eltimablo ,

You know what I bet we both agree on? Limited liability in general being a shit idea.

eltimablo ,

NGL, my first comment was partially meant to see if you actually had blocked me lol

eltimablo ,

Hey man, it happens. I could tell that you had some valid arguments in there, I was just trying to get you to express them. I definitely didn't help by joining in the immaturity either.

Side note, I'm legit starting to hate my Tesla anyway, but I wasn't about to admit that yesterday lol. There are absolutely a lot of valid criticisms of them, I just think the majority are overblown, especially as they relate to FSD. I'm in the beta and it's basically the only reason I still have the damn thing.

Anyway, I'm sorry too. I probably should have just walked away when things got heated, but there was a part of me that was secretly hoping to see how long we'd keep going back and forth calling each other assholes because I thought it would be funny.

eltimablo ,

If it was supposed to be called a vertical bar, they wouldn't have put a pipe on the key.

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