I expect people to be able to obtain a laptop for 50 or 100 bucks, which they apparently can. Manufacturers should have to reckon with that fairly, or lose business.

I want to destroy new device culture.

Mine has a replaceable battery, in theory I can buy whatever quality level of battery I want :3

Again, 1200% the price.

Do those things warrant 6x the price? Or, in reality, 12x the price? Let’s be real here, the exact hardware specs down to material aside, is it?

No, 8gb of RAM (obviously older DDR but still) and 256gb or storage.

Of course the CPU and other older components will be less powerful, but like… What do we use computers for now that we didn’t in 2017? AI? Oh nooooo, what will I ever do without local AI… It all works the same, at a pretty decent speed running Bazzite (cause I wanted to see how it ran games. It topped out at Skyrim Special Edition running at 15fps, did good at fallout New Vegas though).

I got a bargain, but say you can only get it now for double what I paid. That’s 1/6 the price. Why pay 600% more for a computer that’s not even that much better?

I got a laptop from 2017 off eBay for $50 with those same specs. Installed Linux on it and it was good to go. 600 is absolutely outrageous in a world where used hardware exists.

Imagine if your computer was extremely high spec, but could only run any process for a maximum of about 20 minutes. That would be… Just awful.

That being said, it looks like this study is pretty flawed.

Oh my God they’re gonna do it again? I’m so fucking giddy rn

You do have a point, after reading the article. That’s a bit embarrassing for me, honestly. Ragebait got me again, it seems…

It seems like he had humility, but he put his name on an article that had false content that he didn’t verify. That’s not a mistake so much as it is neglect of due diligence. Simply checking if the important citations in his article were true would have saved him, but he didn’t. I can only imagine how many journalists do this without getting caught.

Amazing. Just great.

Imagine being confronted for lying and just going “hey it was an accident okay I didn’t MEAN to decieve people, I just used the machine known for deceiving people and willingly put my name on its deceptions and it deceived people!” and having people defend you.

The article says “controversy” as of this is some cancel culture crap.

Controversy… What controversy? It sounds more like blatant journalistic malpractice

They are called stakeholders.

No, not really. One of my greatest joys is dominated by a megacorp and everyone is just fine with it.

Or just pirate the book. Anyone who makes their work only available by giving an evil, corrupt corporation money can go fuck themselves.

Actually, scratch that, send them an email from a burner account that can’t be linked to you telling them you pirated their book, and why, with absolutely no money. Just a massive fuck you :)

Laziness? Why designate storage for a downloaded repository when you can just use the blazing fast company network to make someone else’s storage your storage? Systemically it’s fucked up, but individually it kinda makes sense.

We’ve already made so many phones that can do all of the exact same things over the last 10 or so years. I think if we just stopped making them for a while and simply worked on updating all of those old phones, we might actually be better off.

sigh

Well, uh… I think she wants people to get better. Like all of us.

The dragons are coming, do the dragon ritual dance. Since we’re just saying stuff.