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You’re part of the problem.

If you buy from scalpers, you’re part of the problem.

My problem with buying used is that some things barely survive the warranty period, so if I can get those two years of warranty, I will. I usually aim towards buying the latest thing and using it for at least 3-4 years for the things that go old the fastest (CPUs, mobos, RAM, GPUs). Other things might last longer - i.e. I just retired a case and a PSU that are 10+ years old (bought new).

I somewhat agree with your sentiment, but indeed it seems like the more we want to vote with our wallets, the further we stray from practicality.

The impulsive guy in me is thinking that I should cancel AMD over something like this while the rational one remembers that (at least for non-Apple PCs) it’s basically a duopoly and if I cancel the other player over something stupid that they do, I’d be out of choices.

What do you guys think?

Not a scientist, but from what I know it’s all linked and proportional to a species’ lifespan, so dogs are growing up faster, but also aging faster than humans in general. If a human reaches sexual maturity at 15, a dog does so at 1 or 2.

So “xkcd” is now a genericised noun for any comic? Also, is this xerox a Canon?

Hopefully not just humans. Many dogs for example suffer from the very same issues when they get older.

Yeah, hopefully something bigger hits them.

I admire this guy’s stubbornness. Sadly, even if he ends up winning, Samsung probably won’t feel this at all.

Same here. I’m an Opera refugee so to say (and I had high hopes for Opera actually). I’ve been using Vivaldi since its first public alpha/preview/whatever they were calling it.

I’m wondering what the decision making was when they were starting (which is now 10 years ago already, time flies, yo).

From today’s perspective, a Firefox fork sounds way more logical. Back then maybe things with Blink/Chromium weren’t looking so grim, maybe they were relying on the experience of that part of the team that moved over from Opera…

The folks at Vivaldi have been doing some work on their internal ad blocker, I think with the intention to bring most of the functionality of uBo internally so that it doesn’t have to be an extension. Not sure how far along they are, but maybe they’re intentionally keeping it quiet.

There is some truth to that, yes. But given that they’re still around means that they’re doing okay despite the questionable choices. Speaking from memory, they absolutely dominated the personal audio market (cassette players, then CD, then mp3/digital) - at least before the iPod came around. MiniDisc didn’t stick around, but they still had players for every big format of the day. And let’s not forget that they co-developed CD-DA.

They’ve made some strategic acquisitions (i.e. Minolta) and they’re in the big three of pro photography. That’s speaking just from my bubble as a hobbyist/semi-pro photographer - but now that I look at the Wikipedia page listing their acquisitions, there are literally hundreds of them.

What you’re saying about phones specifically might be true, I can’t speak from experience. When they had the P line of Symbian phones I still only had a feature phone with a monochrome screen - and by that time (which I remember reading in magazines) Nokia was the big smartphone player with a lot of Symbian phones sticking to the 320x240 format (so if apps were catering to that, there’s the problem). I don’t remember specifics about Sony Ericsson’s flavour of Symbian, but it seemed weird indeed. As of the feature phones from that time, I remember that many of them supported Java and things were mostly the same across brands.

Generally what you’re describing is almost as if Sony has wanted to be Apple - with the difference being that Apple has been significantly more successful in setting trends. Not a fan, but can’t not admit how big they are.

That’s strange. Any sources on that? I’d be interested to read up.

Whatever the reasoning, if it wasn’t for the other things and if displays were the only criteria, I would actually prefer Sony - a tall and narrow display would work nicely IMO (if you aren’t watching 16:9 videos all the time - which I am not), and Sony is also one of the very few manufacturers to offer displays without a punch hole and with very mellow corner rounding. I’m with larger hands and even so I think that my current phone - Nothing 3a Pro - 6.77", 20:9-ish aspect ratio - is just too large to be practical and I’d prefer something around 6" at most (and, as mentioned, something as tall, but narrower could work well).

Yeah, I’m aware. I have realistic expectations and I’m looking into running something simpler and less demanding.

I meant for private use.

As for work, we do use AI quite a lot and I don’t have a say over what’s available.

Local AI it is then. Not that I’m using all that much now anyway…

“You have 15 GB of space as long as you’re not using it all”

I’m not sure if I see a reason not to disable sleep on lid close. If you have to carry it around lid open so that it doesn’t sleep, you clearly have a case for wanting to keep the laptop running with lid closed.

If it’s a “look at me, I’m doing things”, it’s a whole different story.

Kinda reminiscent of people walking while holding their phones on their palm face up like a slice of bread.