thom_

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by thom_ 4y ago
They should give them away. I’d never spend $600 on any kind of windows product. Maybe we can install linux on it? But you’d have to be smoking crack not to buy a mac mini m1. It’s the best computer I ever used hands down
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by thom_ 4y ago
For nuclear winter it would need to be substantially more, and for crop failure necessary for population reduction, a full nuclear exchange
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by thom_ 4y ago
this is actually great news for the planet
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by thom_ 4y ago
Those are such crappy laptops the latitude. So flimsy, such garbage
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by thom_ 4y ago
Their censorship function is broken because you can just make a new account in 30 seconds from a new ip which is automatic now with safari relay. This is like my 50th account. And there’s no real benefit to amassing points except for the mo
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by thom_ 4y ago
Neat to see a RISC V laptop but they must be smoking crack if they think I’m paying $1500 for the privilege of recompiling my operating system really, really slowly. And the 5k option is outright predatory. Someone needs to protect the vuln
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by thom_ 4y ago
If you pay a twice the rental cost and watch the movie a dozen times, that’s your moneys worth. Nobody wants to hold onto a DVD for 20 years to rewatch an old movie again and again and again and pass it onto their grandkids. This is just ri
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by thom_ 4y ago
The orange pi’s are so nice now. They come w a metal box just like a Mac mini
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by thom_ 4y ago
No it isn’t. Ok sure, there are only so many bitcoins that can be mined. But - there’s 50k alt currencies that have fallen out of the sky, most also with scarcity. Why are they worthless while bitcoin holds value?. In fact the scarcity in c
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by thom_ 4y ago
The 2d desktop is over anyway. Tomorrows desktop is 3d AR
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by thom_ 4y ago
Bye Nick! Thanks for all the blinking lights!!
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by thom_ 4y ago
The desktop experience is still a mess. They’ve become complacent with ‘it works out of the box’ but that’s not the bar. Apple sets the bar and there’s no prize for second place. You’re on Apple or Linux or brain damaged and using Windows,
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by thom_ 4y ago
I remember vividly smashing the stylus into the unresponsive tft screen until it broke in a white rage. The n900 totally sucked, although it did look neat. The wifi sucked, the screen sucked, no capacitive touch. Also the battery sucked lik