https://www.pcmag.com/picks/the-best-budget-laptops

Thank you, goodnight.

Do you think it is overpriced?

Given its capabilities and the fact that you can buy used MS notebook/360 device for such a price? Of course.

$498

optional keyboard cover for an extra $101.

Ah, I understand. It’s an attempt to replicate Steve “unwashed” Jobs’ strategy, where buying overpriced stuff makes you BETTER, DIFFERENT and UNIQUE. Am I right?

Truth is dramatic.

Threat to Public Safety

Dude, you forgot which of two worlds is the real one. Hint: it’s not the Internet.

updating hard disc firmware

😆

using WinRAR

And that’s how I know that voting should be a privilege, not a right.

Hmmmmm, there’s definitely a merit in the idea, but I was more about dopamine excretion itself - from what I gather, the actual content should be playing the most important role in it, to the point that a, hmmmm, highly evocative scene would influence the brain no matter if seen in vivd colors or greyscale.

I need to do some research on the topic, to make up my mind. 😉

Interesting.

Gonna give it a read later.

Thank you. 👍

Can’t comment on the article’s content if it’s unavailable to read…

And judging from what little they decided to show, it’s not exactly an article relevant to what you’re saying here?

Could you provide a few links from some considerably respectable sources?

I’m not sure I follow.

Are you claiming that the colors have bigger impact on dopamine production than the actual content?

I absolutely am. You’re simply overthinking it - the scenario I provided makes plaintext *.txt perfect.

Sure, we can spend the rest of the day inventing scenarios, where Mr. NOTECH will be manipulated remotely by aliens, and what then, but that’s an exercise in creativity, not a situation that needs to be taken into account.

Unbeatabe, then.

The “PURPOSE” is the keyword.

If the purpose of the software is to work in closed, offline environment with Mr. NOTECH operating it via “line 5: rotations per minute; line 6: temperature in Fahrenheit” commands, then trust me, it’s going to get the job done.

“Press THIS button if you want to enter anyway”.

I think I need to fill a patent for this idea, since it’s brand new, fresh and nobody has ever heard about it…

Depends on the purpose of the software. In certain specific situations a plaintext *.txt is unbeatable.

Hiring Linux professionals would require competent IT management. Most corporations don’t have that.

And again: you’re allowing for your emotions to dictate your opinion. This is wrong approach and indeed one of main reasons Linux/FOSS is hard to sell on. After all, would you really want to work with, and give your money to people who think yourself to be incompetent in spite of knowing you? 😉

Same.

FOSS is crucial to the survival of freedom in IT (broad sense) - whoever claims otherwise, doesn’t understand what is going on all around him.

But it doesn’t mean that Linux/FOSS is allowed to stay blind and deaf and resist evolution, especially if it wants to become something more than a set of tools for network administrators…

I worked in environments where MS Office and Star/Open/Apache/Libre Office was used, and Tbird was installed in addition to whatever Windows email client. I’m not even discussing other pieces of software, these are enough to make a point, I think. There was hardly a person who prefered the alternatives. These tools were perceived as slow, unreliable, uncooperative and the lack of compatibility, document-wise, only strengthened these opinions.

As for “posts scaring people away…” Do you seriously think that whatever people write in the Internet is enough to convince big corps, governments and other massive groups of recipients? Come on…

I disagree with your take on corpo environment. If what you’re saying would be true, then it’d be far more profitable for corpo to hire a bunch of Linux-oriented technicians and thus save costs of IT layer. But corpos don’t do that. You’re suggesting a paradox - a body that relies on cost-cutting and making everything as profitable as possible, that also is ok with wasting money on something that’s allegedly easy to replace.

Again: you’re doing what Linux/FOSS community usualy does. Instead of acknowledging the points and asking “what can be done to make this work”, you’re saying that your choice is better, good enough to work no matter what environment, what userbase is there, all consequences and the contradictory evidence be damned. It’s users that need to change their ways, certainly not Linux/FOSS.

This might work as Apple’s strategy, but it won’t as hell work in case of Linux/FOSS. 😉