didnt the us gov already get like 5% of the company, laying the groundwork of they cant fail bullshit ?

my guy asking the real questions!

HOWEVER

your however is pointless. This is not a second hand market, you are comparing apples to cars. They are not the same. Your first points are somewhat ok.

No activism here, obviously you dont grasp how cheaper this gets long term even compared to second hand laptops. I have the 13. I will give you few examples now - talking in general here, not a specific laptop but a good majority.

My SSD dies I change it, yours is soldered (ESPECIALLY ON MAC) you BUY a new laptop.

My Ram dies or i want to upgrade it, I change it, yours is soldered (many have it now like asus, acer etc. for no reason, no LLM usability or speed chase) you BUY a new laptop at best sell off this one at a loss and buy a new one.

I break my display or display frame, I change the display EASILY or the display frame with a simple snap - YOU BUY A NEW LAPTOP your old is salvaged for few parts and is useless as 99.9% of people cant change their laptop monitor as its hard and in some cases deliberately made impossible to do.

My needs change, i need to change from HDMI to Display port or USB C port for display out etc. (real case for me) I simply buy 2 new ports for 40 usd, you buy a new laptop at best sell this one off at a huge loss.

I drop my laptop and my chassis break, I buy a new chassis, you buy a new laptop and trow this one in the bin with few salvaged parts.

this one is specific to linux users … i buy the laptop, EVERYTHING works out of the box, you thinker and there is a 50/50 chance few of the parts are not optimized or they outright dont have drivers for linux.

Now here is the kicker … I use my laptop for 5 years, I dont wnat to spend 2k on a laptop, I simply by a new mobo and upgrade only that, and you know what ? I can re-use my old mobo in a case as a PC, homelab, server, media station OR sell it on a big re-sale market and re-coup some of my money, thus the purchase of my new mobo gets cheaper.

Ow my old laptop is too old now and the camera quality is bad, the speakers are weak the fingerprint is slow, the touchapd is old ? good news … there are 3 generations of reversions, my hinges are weak ? again, new revisions your battery is old ? ha … good nows again, there are 3 types of batteries that you can buy NOT from china re-branded second had batteries for your laptop that under the hood are re-used old ones charging you as new ones, but a new one, bigger, better, faster you ? you buy 2x batteries from china, spend 400 usd because there are none sold officially anywhere because your manufacturer moved long time ago to newer models and then after you lost those money as you got scammed you buy a new laptop.

I can go on much more btw … but this got too long :) I think you get the picture :) There is no activism here my friend, its smart purchasing and investment in NOT spending shit ton of money and owning what i use. You do not own your computer. I bet your lenovo, if something breaks, try your luck with the lenovo warranty … see what happens (speaking from experience there).

bullshit, similar spec laptop AT WORST is ~100-150 USD more, if you are looking at 2x price, on similar spec, you are looking at a no name brad with the worst of the worst parts, that will 1000% fail in less than 6 months and will fall apart in less than a year.

we all know its coming, and this is the end game, its a matter of time.

stop … he is already dead!

soooooo that line for a ~1 year to buy a laptop from there … is what ? Ow and the fact that i need to wait close to half a year to get JUST the MOBO … yeah sure. Whatever.

I say give them maps, give them gear, and access cards if possible. Let’s help out ahhahah

Very well said, thus also very sad. There is going to be a cleansing sooner or later.

It works, does the job… I mean…

I think it was the theme for all of human history, just the scale is different now.

VLC?

to little, not late. Been a avid windows user since `95, used all of them up to 11 no exception, pivoted 3 years ago to linux, and at this point there is literally not a thing that will bring me back. Linux is 1000x better for me, free of charge, more polished, faster, better looking, no BS, and if there IS any bs, i can move to another distro that i like. There is literally not a single thing. Those kernel level anti cheat games… fuck em, i got 1000’s of games to play that work on steam and gog and uplay and battle.net and all other platforms flawlessly no problem and been waiting to play em.

I read somewhere that the new version was supposed to improve that and make it viable for talking. I might be wrong though.

Yes I know, but on the new version it was said to be done better, faster, higher quality and much easier.

If I was a console gamer I would have already stocked on all older consoles with all the disks, hacked a secondary console just because and move to PC for main online gaming. Let them suffer. Let them loose money.

But that would never happen. People will not stop buying. Sadly.

Do we have the new Lara protocol already with voice and all? I forgot about those things, been waiting for that to hop in.

Interesring…

I was dabbling for ~10+ years with Linux out of curiosity, but I was heavily invested in windows since 95. I used and liked vista, survived windows 8, but the moment everything started moving towards big brother I had enough. I was in the early access program and the insider program and I hated the idea of recall. The moment it came out in an early access program it was hacked less than 2 hour in the program, and all data could be extracted from the pictures as banking etc. Thus negating the need of complex viruses, you simply have the data in front of you. Then copilot… The fact that is deeply integrated in to everything like file explorer will break if you try yo remove it etc. I just realized this is not my computer anymore, I can’t do anything with it that I want and I am paying premium to own this system.

Moved to Ubuntu, loved it but had some things I did not like, things like forcefull integration of not matured system changes on already proven systems (the rust saga), and other things. Moved to arch and I have been personally using Linux for close to 3 years and never looked back.

All the things I nerd work, those that I want and don’t work natively I can try and run somehow and often it works often I have to find an alternative. The things that do not work anymore I don’t nerd them. Like ms office, adobe (some already work natively or cloud based), and kernel level anti cheat games… I can save my time in to other games. 99% of the games I want run flawlessly or EVEN better than windows, I wonder why hahah.

Planing to move to fedore for a change at the end of the year :)

Nah, it’s all good, I’m looking for advice I have zero knowledge. Been looking for a week and watching all sorts of videos and I feel more confused now haha.

BTW for now I think I’m settling around Keychron K3 Max