I don’t mind moving to hardware.watch.

Are there multiple admins who manage hardware.watch or just one? Don’t want another lemm.ee situation. :)

I am assuming I would need to create a local account (alt), right?

Now this is my type of laptop. 18" inches, top of the range performance (with no compromise for battery life and weight).

The $6K+ price seems very high considering the nature of such a device.

Probably a few 10s of thousands around the globe per year (per OEM model series)?

That’s rough. I’ve heard pretty bad things about Razor’s customer support, sounds like their software isn’t that good either.

Their software is worse than your typical OEM tools and utilities packages?

400/150 Mbps - $55/month

I pay the equivalent of $10 USD per month (we don’t do list prices, it’s the actual price) for 1 Gbit fibre.

And I am willing to bet that the “five-year price lock” advertising is fraud. There has to be a clause in their TOS that as per the company “price lock” means the ability to change prices.

I generally prefer text reviews for tech hardware because YT content with charts is more difficult to navigate and tech YouTubers can be sketchy (not all of course, some are really good and consumer-focused).

Some budget gaming laptops from MSI are shipping with just 8 GB of RAM and an anti-tamper sticker to dissuade end-users from upgrading the memory themselves.

This is just petty.

The top performer is Asus ROG Ally X.

Not exactly a laptop! 😆

I mostly follow big accounts and don’t that much with folks (outside of a niche hobby account that I am trying to slowly grow).

Best option seems to be to subscribe/browse hashtags that pique your interest. Eventually you’ll find people who regularly post/boost interesting content and users.

I like to distinguish between ideological, Friedmanite capitalism, which I call big C Capitalism and broader concepts such as trade, competition, new commercial ideas, which I call small c capitalism.

Big C Capitalism is more of an oligarch-promoted, authoritarian ideology with clear fascistsa tendencies (see Friedman’s statement that “free markets” take precedent over democratic governance).

Small c capitalism is more a quality of human civilization and its implementation reflects social and cultural developments.

That is why American-run commercial social networks are inherently not viable if you care about user focus. Any rational adult (of any nationality, from US to Botswana) can make their own conclusions regarding US-run commercial social networks over the past ~20 years.

I deleted Twitter a while ago and switched to Mastodon, I did not move to Bluesky when it started getting big exactly because I knew their initial user-focus was a ruse (and their federation architecture seemed top heavy).

Was hoping this was based on AMD, but no, it’s Qualcomm Snapdragon X.

It may be hard to find good detailed info (unless you speak Chinese?). Although a superficial review of the components doesn’t suggest anything too problematic.

For €730, this is a very compelling offering. You could do a lot worse for such a price. And the design is solid (if a little too similar to the MacBook Air).

Trump is a bigger national security concern than fucking TP-Link and no one in power is seriously talking about removing him.

There is an abstract ironic beauty to this.

I was referring to PC components in general.

I don’t have any stats to back this up, but I wouldn’t be surprised if failure rates were higher back in the 90s and 2000s.

We have much more sophisticated validation technologies and the benefit of industry, process and operational maturity.

Would be interesting to actually analyze the real world dynamics around this.

The physical market is basically in terminal decline. It would make much more sense for Sony to go with a separate drive addon if they are even willing to consider support discs for the PS6.

While I agree with your message at a high level (I quit FB several years ago), I don’t think it’s productive to be so abrasive.

It’s generally better to be respectful and convincing if you want to change minds.