I mean, I always buy used business line laptops for about $400 each when I upgrade, but if I plopped down new $1500 pricing for a new laptop, I’d be a little upset if I broke the USB power port. Guess that’s just me though. I don’t like planned obselence, most people don’t seem to really think about that much I guess.

Am I the only one that thinks that USB-C power delivery is a con?

Having the option to charge with usb-c in a pinch is a really nice feature, but for longterm use I’d really rather a seperate barrel jack for power.

The barrel jacks on business line laptops are usually a separate module that if it breaks from catching the cord with your foot and ripping it out of the laptop, you can replace the module. I’m not sure I’ve really seen replaceable usb-c power jacks very commonly, they’re usually part of the motherboard because it’s a combined power delivery/thunderbolt port or something. Now if you rip the cord out the jack is totally fucked And you have to solder a new one on.

True, other option I hadn’t thought of is to use war time to stay in power, so we’re ‘forever at war’ with Mexico to keep his dictatorship going

So, here’s the thing. We all know Trump’s a bastard. If they use him to try to control the cartel’s he’ll pretty much just take over Mexico once the troops are in the border.

In this case the enemy of my enemy doesn’t apply here, because your enemy’s enemy is a fascist asshole with no satiation for power and money.

How’s the performance for media on that thing? I was eying up the surface go line to replace an android tablet that I mostly use for playing movies and TV shows I’ve downloaded. Think it would do okay playing back 1080p and higher content?

Oh Jesus Christ dude, I was trying to get you to calm down and stop being so argumentative when we both want the same outcome. No. 2nd. Holocaust.

Take some time and cool off, I didn’t mean to piss you off, and I don’t take the holocaust lighty, I just off the cuff suggested an idea of trying to fight fascism with their own strategies, I dunno how you linked that to “I support Nazi’s”…

Lol you gotta chill out dude. We both don’t want a repeat of the holocaust, we agree on that.

You realize I’m arguing to try to stop what happened to them, from happening to others right? So yah, let’s use corruption to fight corruption, what else do we have to lose? I’m not really sure why you’d be against trying anything to reject recreating the horrors those people lived through and witnessed.

You’re on a moral high horse by telling me more corruption isn’t the answer, while also lecturing me about how horrible it was for those people. Let’s uh… Try whatever the heck might work to not have that happen again? Can we agree on that point at least?

I mean at this point I’d try anything to not recreate Germany circa late 1930’s…

I really doubt the people in concentration camps would have agreed with “ya know what? Maybe fighting corruption with corruption isn’t something worth trying…”

The EU should play his own game and funnel foreign campaign money for none-GOP people through these stores.

Of course we should have done this years ago since at this point we won’t have fair elections, but for a brief moment, I was satisfied with my thought.

Man, I haven’t listened to Ratatat in yeaaars. Thanks for the memory!

If you’re a SciFi fan, read the expanse series. It’ll reinvigorate your love of reading again. At least, it did for me.

“What then?”

“Same as it ever was!”

We all fight over resources that actually matter (like food, water, shelter and security) instead the previous things (money), for the enjoyment of our overlords.

Seriously, the people who have power to change the outcome of the future seem to either straight not be planning for this future scenario, or are planning for a horribly distopian version of this future scenario.

Its even worse, selling your body for someone else’s profit. I was just recently in a weird knickknack store that had taxidermy peacocks, butterflies, gems, minerals, etc… But one of the ‘etc’ was a human skeleton that the person donated their body to science in early 1900’s only to end up being for sale for the low price of $9,000 after the medical organization they donated their body to was either done with it, or the organization dissolved, or who knows what…

Pretty shitty that its legal to sell people’s fucking remains for a profit…

Man, look at those good jeans…

It didn’t get enough attention or make enough money, so Canonical dropped it. Its still on life support and slowly having some features added by the the open source community under the name ubports, but its slow going (they just updated the entire codebase from Ubuntu 16.04->18.04 and most recently 20.04) and not the best approach in my opinion, as i think every app has to be specifically developed for ubports, unlike postmarketOS where you can install anything in the repo. It also uses halium which is a translation layer for the android kernel that allows rhe Linux side to interact with hardware, since a lot of the drivers to make these phones work, aren’t mainlined.

Also like any project like this, device support is severely lacking (especially in the US).

Though admittedly, I didn’t realize you could get fairphone in the US now, and that it might work on us bands. So ubports on fairphone 5 might be good, dunno.

http://ubports.com/

Design a Linux phone. So sick of google and android. Currently looking at Fairphone 6 in the US as postmarketOS just got initial support, still need cellular, WiFi, camera to be functional, but considering it just came out a few months ago, pretty impressive.

Mixed with syncthing to sync your database file across your devices and its chef’s kiss