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I realize this just the photos from the associated manuals merged into a basic website, but damned if it isn't cool. I feel reassured when the people who were
by soganess 7y ago
I realize this just the photos from the associated manuals merged into a basic website, but damned if it isn't cool.
I feel reassured when the people who were responsible for my computer's creation aren't doing their very best to hide the fact that what they sold me was, in fact, a computer.
I get machines are now marketed as lifestyle accessories, but they can also, unapologetically, be computers. The two aren't mutually exclusive.
- rubyfan 7y agoI miss useful computers for people who make computers useful for people. MacOS X used to feel closer to this ideal. Operating systems feel like they have moved toward throw away consumerism (maybe they always were throw away given the pace of change). Linux feels increasingly like a subsystem for running web apps and systems. I kind of miss the nerdiness of it all.
- JasonFruit 7y agoYou can easily make Linux feel like whatever you want, if you are willing to put a bit of setup work in up front. If you are going with the default desktop setup, it's not surprising it doesn't feel like it's really enough for you: most distros' default options are there to make it easy for people who don't know what they want yet.
- CraftThatBlock 7y agoAre you sure? The date/time was live for me. Edit: Looked at the network requests, it's not images. It's returning config files with the information to emulate it. https://download.lenovo.com/bsco/schemas/ThinkPad%20X1%20Carbon(20FC%2020FB).ini?_=1562364164341 https://download.lenovo.com/bsco/schemas/ThinkPad%20X1%20Car...
- soganess 7y agoGood Catch! I was being overly reductive! I should have said: I realize this is a rather shallow simulator working more closely on the with the view layer than the underlying model/hardware, but...