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I've been wishing for something similar, I think it's a great opportunity for desktop-style arm computing to shine.

Every time Framework is brought up, there's a chorus of people saying they won't buy until they release an AMD edition, and as one of them this is great to see.

Edit: Also the input deck and the ability to attach an egpu as well as upgrade to a newer egpu in the future are huge. This is a fantastic leap forward for Framework.

When doing those vpn tricks to get lower pricing you run the risk of services terminating your account and that's something a lot of people can't afford when it comes to their google accounts

Because the risk is supposed to lie in the hands of the investors, the founders, and the people who make the decisions. When the risks taken by the people at the top succeed, they profit, when they fail, they tend to push that onto their employees through layoffs and withholding raises. Then they will turn back around saying that they deserve their lavish lifestyles because they are the ones taking the risks. You can't have your cake and eat it too.

I wonder if the leak of the design was a way for them to gauge how the public would respond to a device like that and the sharp negative response was all they needed to hear to put it on the back shelf for a few more years.

Same, I got interested in trying it a couple years back and steam's support for games is what made it seem so accessible. I enjoy a mix of smaller games and AAA gaming but even it's AAA game support is impressive, I can play a good chunk of the CoD games and have been playing the recent battlefield and battlefront games with no issues. I've also been playing RDR2, GTA, DOOM, Borderlands, Cyberpunk, Shadow of War, Apex Legends, and many more with only a couple issues every once in a while, which is a tradeoff I'm willing to make. The only games I miss are Fortnite, Dead by daylight, and Rainbow 6 Siege, which I end up playing with friends using Nvidia Streaming.

This post is more about ads in the ui itself, on top of the individual apps where they already pay more to avoid ads

unless it changed recently it has never been profitable

better accessibility for one, which is a major reason it's the often the only option in many enterprise distributions.

> I also like being less entailed with Google and view Brave’s chromium base a lesser evil than FireFox’s funding dependency.

I don't understand how this makes sense. Running chromium with a skin and some components removed as opposed to a completely independent browser/engine that has proven to not implement features that will reduce user control over ads or tracking (most notably FLOC or Manifest V3) that google is fighting to implement. If you wanted the lesser evil and still believe firefox is evil, then wouldn't a WebKit based browser be the least evil?

I was able to read early on in my childhood but I still enjoyed reading with my parents around that age. As you learn to read yourself it shifts from being read _to_ and instead to reading with your family.

The RHEL and SuSE family is definitely bigger than arch and arch adjacent distros but I agree with your point

Some people don't want to configure everything about their desktop. Most people don't. They just want something that looks nice and feels good to use. Apple's ecosystem is expensive and locked in while gnome/linux is open and works with as much hardware and software as possible, on top of that it's free. Also the software experience is different too, while on Mac software that involves any personalization or enhances the desktop is paid, while gnome/linux is free and almost all software that enhances the desktop is also free and open source software. Their opinions on UI/UX might be similar but that's where the majority of their similarities end.

With spotify maybe but for youtube music this is definitely true

You'd be surprised..

its the law in the US

because this hardware is uniquely repairable and upgradable and it has better linux support than most of the industry. Unless you just want another rebranded clevo laptop this is very good.

And just like that my next gpu will probably be NVIDIA. AMD's recent prices have made nvidia look like a better option and the only thing holding me back was amd's amazing open source drivers and the options that came with. If nvidia's drivers become comparable or are well on their way then they would be the obvious choice in today's market.

> “The LEO can accommodate about 50,000 satellites, over 80% of which would be taken by Starlink if the program were to launch 42,000 satellites as it has planned.”

How do you think they came up with that 50,000 satellite figure? Is that an underestimation? LEO is big but it will get harder as it gets saturated by starlink and especially if other companies try to create their own variations of the idea like amazon has expressed interest in.

> So we are actually paying more(of course, lots extra hardware cost) for less

I thought they subsidized some of the cost with ad money

> requires modern hardware

*in a time when new hardware was so freakishly expensive that 4-5 year old hardware was being sold for more than it's original MSRP

In my experience most of these are responsive but don't have much "software". This one took the crown for being so feature rich, even including a browser. The only other project I can remember that does this is FriendOS.

The ribbon menu was actually a step in the right direction for desktop only UI paradigm

it'S serious in terms of usability and support

the youtube home page pushes exponentially more trash than the recommendations do though

this is a cool idea

I agree, I have always hated having to give my google credentials to random apps instead of just using something like oauth where I can be more confident in the security of my credentials.

Yeah I was not expecting to like this as much as I do

I don't see why shared enjoyment of something is a "shameness". People are coming together to enjoy and share about something they have in common and that should be a good thing.

> I spend as much time as I want going over the menu, customizing my items as I see fit (steak instead of ground beef, or creamy salsa dressing instead of avocado lime)

Having worked in fast food for a long time, I've noticed that with the rise of ordering on mobile apps, a lot of the apps have started to nudge customers to customize their orders way more. It can be somewhat frustrating to be on the receiving end of orders that would normally sound extreme to order over the counter or through a drive-thru speaker, but the app makes it seem fine. They're usually not a problem other than slowing down the line, but getting them in a rush can be a nightmare.

I do have to say though, I do like the ability to browse the menu without feeling like I have to hurry up and order, and I think the benefits of ordering through an app generally outweigh the downsides.