perfect for spotify

LARGE variety of "audiophile" ethernet cables exist*

i wonder if "audiophile" NICS rebranded from cheap alicards could sell well :D

just add additional ferrit choke to one of the pins and call it specialized product

Ones and zeros could be more easily corrupted or not be read as fast on shitty cards

I had korean dash cams that were very temperamental about which microsd cards worked

https://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-19-5895_en.htm

related:https://ec.europa.eu/energy/en/regulation-laying-down-ecodesign-requirements-1-october-2019

@Tervy tldr?

right to repair

and forced sale of repair parts

on within certain time and cost limitations

oh my son you dont know the half of it.. laptops are just tip of the iceberg of "fuck you cause we can"

once you realise that there is/was(kind of still is) people hacking their fucking tractors firmware so they can repair it ? want that new transmission ?? nope, want new AC ?? nope unless you pay for push of a button (and everything included...)

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The legal license agreement specific didn't allow farmers to sue the company for any kind of "crop loss, lost profits, loss of goodwill, loss of use of equipment ... arising from the performance or non-performance of any aspect of the software."

and yes its the model example of shitty future by John Deere and all other big companies

laptops have a reason though

soldered parts are smaller than socketed parts

like are you going to complain about 01005 and 0201 smd parts too?

Louis Rossman would like to have a word with you

Nobody is complaining about the size of soldered resistors and ics, but it's to be expected that RAM/storage/wifi cards should be servicable, the types of companies that remove those features in an attempt at miniaturization are also the same companies that make garbage like the MacBook air

Disposable hardware that starts at $2k

i'm also not sure what you're supposed to be getting at with DC jack/webcam

half of the laptops don't have a DC jack

webcams are in the screen so they'll always be connected via a cable and replaceable

https://github.com/idea4good/GuiLite#new-feature3d-engine---hello-3d

https://twitter.com/verge/status/1182151845877297152?s=19

Any of you fine gentlegamers able to identify what ThinkPad this is? Sorry for the shit quality, it's the sellers camera not mine

looks like W540 / T540 / W541 based on the lack of trackpoint mouse1/mouse2/mouse3 buttons

W series has a numpad

this is true

Confirmed not a w 540/1, mine has a numpad

I would think it's a t series

The seller is including it with 4 other early 2010s laptops for $120, what do you guys say I should offer for the Thonkpad?

do you need a laptop?>

Not really but I'd like to have another laptop as a sandbox for learning Linux

For $120? That seems like a good deal, but id ask about the specs

just use a vm or dualboot

I want to avoid that ngl because I think this person doesn't know what they have

looks like a ThinkPad X240 @𝕿𝖊𝖗𝖗𝖞 𝕯𝖆𝖛𝖎𝖘

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