Have you ever carried a laptop on actual travel? Like sprinting across a train station to catch your connection? You’ll definitely learn to appreciate a smaller lighter laptop.

Hat nur den kleinen Nachteil, dass die tatsächlichen Einsparungen minimal sind.

Es wird ja nichts gewonnen damit, die tatsächlichen Spareffekte sind vernachlässigbar. Es geht hier nur darum Leute zu schurigeln, weil das “konservative” Publikum such gern an sowas aufgeilt.

What exactly is soldered on that shouldn’t be? If you want a processor that’s user replaceable, you should just get a PC. If RAM, SSD and the ports are user replaceable, that sounds pretty good to me.

I wonder if this will shut up the “they don’t make them like they used to” crowd.

Rules for thee, not for me. Another thing that never changes.

Yes. That’s pretty much exactly what this is, just engineered for mass production.

Attack of the giant be-monocled gentleman doesn’t quite have the same ring to it as attack of the giant fire breathing dinosaur, though.

They’re probably just waiting for someone to do that. I think the crackhead approach is safer here.

Ich hoffe, du hast keinen Führerschein.

Aber nur, wenn das Auto dabei große schwarze Rauchwolken ausstößt! Wegen der Freiheit!

Some things never change.

Hahaha, good one. You should become a comedian.

Throw in infinite mindless distraction and you got yourself a deal.

I’m relieved to hear that.

All the 500 guests have already agreed to come.

Me too. Sorry guys. The only thing I could cancel is my Ollama free tier account but i don’t think that’s going to make much of an impact.

Filthy heretic!

Do you have a few minutes to talk about our Lord and Saviour, Linus Torvalds?

China is nominally socialist and nominally has free healthcare. In practice things look more similar to the US, though.