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I don't know. I never felt I wanted one device for everything. It would be average at every task. In my pocket, android phone without Google Services. No way I

I don't know. I never felt I wanted one device for everything. It would be average at every task. In my pocket, android phone without Google Services. No way I want this to be Windows. In living room, an iPad for Netflix, light games and light web surfing while in sofa. I don't want Windows for this purpose either. Kids room - gaming computer. Windows. Version 7. It's good at this. Best device for powerful gaming. My work room. Linux laptop and a MacBook air. The macbook is great for banking and other tasks where Linux can't do it. Otherwise I enjoy Linux as my daily work horse. Multiple devices are great!

chiefalchemist 8y ago
Um. 1) I'm not suggesting on device for everything. I'm suggesting that having 3-ish devices where the only major difference is the interface is: stupid, wasteful, reeks of FW consumption, etc. 2) Put another way. You seem to have A LOT excess capacity just collecting dust and becoming obsolute while most of the time it's doing nothing. Given the state of the world I find that mindset rooted in the 20th Century, and bordering on offensive. At some point anticipating tomorrow will have to become more important than the convenience of today. Apparently that understanding is currently unevenly distributed.
- some_account 8y ago
  I understand your point of view, but the state of the world has nothing to do with buying a couple of devices or not. It has to do with wars for profit and control, powerless or corrupted media and journalism, science as religion, culture of passive consumerism, and a future tech of AI, genetics, implants, robots which seem cool but will be used as weapons.
lmm 8y ago
I didn't used to think I wanted a single device, but not worrying about synchronising documents between different computers makes life easier. Even just little things like getting home and wanting to finish reading the web pages I was reading on the train at my desk are nicer when it's the same computer rather than tab syncing - and for most kinds of files I might be working on, syncing is less advanced than in the web browser. > In living room, an iPad for Netflix, light games and light web surfing while in sofa. I don't want Windows for this purpose either. The current windows UI for this is alright, and there's a decent number of light touch games around. It's not quite as smooth as a dedicated tablet UI, but it's close enough that the pros of single-device outweigh the cons IME. > Kids room - gaming computer. Windows. Version 7. It's good at this. Best device for powerful gaming. The surface book I mentioned is actually the 15" surface book 2, which handles every game I've thrown at it. I used to use a desktop, then a luggable 18" gaming laptop, but if the gaming power can be packed into a device that can also function as my travel laptop then why not? And for some modern development/computing tasks you want the same kind of powerful GPU you want for gaming, so it makes sense to use the same device for both. > My work room. Linux laptop and a MacBook air. The macbook is great for banking and other tasks where Linux can't do it. Otherwise I enjoy Linux as my daily work horse. I used to use linux and my home server still runs FreeBSD, but almost all the things I actually want to run - IDEs, rendering tools - are available on windows. The current "ubuntu/debian on windows" is good enough for the times when I want to play with some linux-only tool. I could use a different device with a different interface but why make things harder for myself?

chiefalchemist 8y ago

Um. 1) I'm not suggesting on device for everything. I'm suggesting that having 3-ish devices where the only major difference is the interface is: stupid, wasteful, reeks of FW consumption, etc. 2) Put another way. You seem to have A LOT excess capacity just collecting dust and becoming obsolute while most of the time it's doing nothing. Given the state of the world I find that mindset rooted in the 20th Century, and bordering on offensive. At some point anticipating tomorrow will have to become more important than the convenience of today. Apparently that understanding is currently unevenly distributed.

some_account 8y ago
I understand your point of view, but the state of the world has nothing to do with buying a couple of devices or not. It has to do with wars for profit and control, powerless or corrupted media and journalism, science as religion, culture of passive consumerism, and a future tech of AI, genetics, implants, robots which seem cool but will be used as weapons.

lmm 8y ago

I didn't used to think I wanted a single device, but not worrying about synchronising documents between different computers makes life easier. Even just little things like getting home and wanting to finish reading the web pages I was reading on the train at my desk are nicer when it's the same computer rather than tab syncing - and for most kinds of files I might be working on, syncing is less advanced than in the web browser. > In living room, an iPad for Netflix, light games and light web surfing while in sofa. I don't want Windows for this purpose either. The current windows UI for this is alright, and there's a decent number of light touch games around. It's not quite as smooth as a dedicated tablet UI, but it's close enough that the pros of single-device outweigh the cons IME. > Kids room - gaming computer. Windows. Version 7. It's good at this. Best device for powerful gaming. The surface book I mentioned is actually the 15" surface book 2, which handles every game I've thrown at it. I used to use a desktop, then a luggable 18" gaming laptop, but if the gaming power can be packed into a device that can also function as my travel laptop then why not? And for some modern development/computing tasks you want the same kind of powerful GPU you want for gaming, so it makes sense to use the same device for both. > My work room. Linux laptop and a MacBook air. The macbook is great for banking and other tasks where Linux can't do it. Otherwise I enjoy Linux as my daily work horse. I used to use linux and my home server still runs FreeBSD, but almost all the things I actually want to run - IDEs, rendering tools - are available on windows. The current "ubuntu/debian on windows" is good enough for the times when I want to play with some linux-only tool. I could use a different device with a different interface but why make things harder for myself?