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I've been using the Core i7-1165G7 mainboard for the 13, which works well enough with a large amount of RAM and has mature OS support.

People skills are far more valuable than hoarded technical skillsets. Learn to work top-down as well as bottom-up.

As far as I can tell, these upgrades (aside from the discrete graphics) bring the 16-inch in line with the 13-inch.

I'd be more concerned about what I'd be able to do with an older 16-inch mainboard, as the 13-inch has the Cooler Master case options.

Still rocking the Intel Tiger Lake 13-inch here, mixed Windows / Ubuntu workflow, loads of RAM.

How is it costing the ecosystem? And why is this any different than Windows, for example?

And - if you cannot afford a $99 / yr developer ID, how could you possibly afford a signing key for Windows or other platforms?

Is this a parody article, or strictly an Android problem?

We keep multiple USB-C chargers around the house, and all of our devices work with them.

The end.

Micro Center is not trying to be a white-goods (refrigerator, washer / dryer, etc.) store, as Fry's was.

I've had great luck with Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Chicago stores, and there is now one in Indianapolis that is clean and up-to-date.

...acquisition of their Sound United division notwithstanding.

Isn't this the premise upon which Google's Pigweed (https://pigweed.dev/) operates?

The Framework 13 11th-gen Tiger Lake Core i7-1165G7 (loaded up with 64 GB RAM and a fast 1 TB NVMe SSD) is by far the best value / battery life - that said, the latest MacBook Pro 14in M4 Pro devices are also great value.

I choose both.

If the position requires one to manage either type of infrastructure, "you're doing it all wrong" is an unpopular opinion.

I strongly disagree - if you cannot swim in the same technical waters as your direct reports, and get lost when they try to explain the issues they're facing (and possible resolutions), you are not well-suited to manage them.

Newer fangs are sharper fangs - don't gum your career options to death.

Still clueless as to science, and an embarrassment to us all.

Text editor + browser.

"Bathe them and bring them to me"?

The same argument was made with regard to the consumer retail banking experience when ATMs were introduced in 1967!

Asynchronous remote transactions are commonplace today; this is all a smokescreen for over-leveraged commercial real estate interests held by major US financial institutions.

All of the cruft can be disabled on macOS, if you know where to start; that said, FreeBSD remains an interesting option for scenarios where a headless PC is all one needs.

<^> this - adaptability is of far greater utility than stubbornness.

Bingo. Everything that can be wrongly used or abused started out its existence within sane constraints and use patterns.

Single-material printing is perfectly fine if your intent is to use it as the base for further finishing. In general, I've found the Creality stuff to be pretty decent for the price; in particular, I use an Ender-3 series device (mine's a bit of an odd duck), along with an RPi3 running OctoPrint (with camera). I use Shapr3D for commercial interchange purposes, though everything just works.

No more big government handouts.

Pessimistic and optimistic naming?

We are spoiled with Raspberry Pi support being as good as it is.

The anecdote regarding the Xcode + Swift compiler speed benchmarks leads one to suggest that, while you may have felt bullied by your colleague, he was, in fact, taking the correct approach, given the wider picture of Xcode and its developer experience on slower Apple hardware (including those devices with Fusion drives).

Sometimes, quiet confidence is a good rule to follow at the outset, even if you feel your opinion has merit - it's much easier to navigate quiet success than public failure in a politicized work environment. This is particularly important when you're new to a career and may not yet have the confidence and/or experience to endure the fallout from an irate colleague whose "style" (intentionally quoted, btw) precludes the niceties you may have been used to in your previous work / research environment.

I've been there, on both sides, though it always helps to be kind whenever possible, to be able to traverse the graph of complexity within the appropriate public discussion or private one-on-one.

An exclusively WFH remote team is dangerous to those team members subject to mandatory RTO directives - especially at Dell - and especially dangerous to middle managers incapable of justifying their existence. I have the receipts.

If you're a loser whose skill set excludes human interaction, yes. Coding is a very small portion of the work required.

I received one yesterday with what appears to be older firmware (i.e., no option for use of an external display with WinPE) and a newer image.

As is the case with nearly any Windows device I receive, I booted into Windows Audit Mode and exported all of the installed drivers to a thumbdrive.

That is when the fun began...the device failed to OOBE correctly, the restore image provided by Qualcomm doesn't work, and there's no display. Various workarounds with custom Windows arm64 images are fruitless, and there's no UEFI BIOS updater that would allow one to restore it to a known good state.

ThunderSoft (Qualcomm's partner in Thundercomm) has utterly failed to deliver a reliable working solution with the most basic Windows functionality, which makes me wonder if there is another factor at hand here. There are smaller, less-well-funded companies that can get these types of products built and shipped.

AND - the fact that they're issuing refunds for these devices (at least Arrow Electronics here in the States) REALLY makes me wonder.

Is this a parody post?