Laptops run off batteries a lot of the time - so compromising outright performance - full instruction set - for battery life will be attractive for many laptop users who use it on the go.

I’m no apple fanatic, I’d never get one, but I do see the appeal of those apple laptops.

I’m sure x86 could get closer on the performance to battery tradeoff if they wanted to; but I bet they’d be looking to price up at the apple level for that.

Judge any service (and most other stuff) by its support, aftercare and how they handle complaints / fix problems.

That’s worth more than flashy front end, marketing bs or even technical performance specs.

Haha that would be awesome/softwaregoresome. I’d pay money (well not much money) to see it just to troll MS-GUI fanatics with it.

All I can find is some mention of libreoffice doing it. and yes I did try ddging with ‘safe search’ off.

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=407404

Oh shit - I turned it on in my LO writer and I can’t find the button to turn it back . . .

Don’t fly in a plane until aftr you’ve applied and been rejected then, surely.

GNU Terry Pratchett

Fucking terminal, in many of them ctrl+c and ctrl+v don’t even work. and don’t get me started on how they implement ctrl+z. I’m waiting for a terminal to have the ms-office ribbon menu bar before I’ll use it.

Yeah built in user screening process. Screwed by endeavourOS though.

It could be a form of bundling, tacit veritcal integratation, magin squeeze , price discrimination, tie-ins etc.

Various tricks oligopolistic companies use to prevent competition from bidding prices down - trying to extract a bit of extra profit. The harm is that people are paying more than they might - or for extra features they cant opt out of than they would in a free or open market. Likely the harm is very diffuse and no one person is all that bothered to be paying 10% more or whatever, but it all adds up.

Anti-trust regulators are so weak they don’t really have to try though. TBF it’s very hard to prove this stuff in court even if there was a political will to improve competition to benefit consumers.

I’d go basic debian . Install flatpak and flathub to get any packages that are too far out of date or might get so. Any derivative or ubuntu derivative just sees like unnecessary extra dependencies to me.

Debian gives i think a wider choice of desktop environment than any of the derivatives on install, but I think they’re all much of a muchness really. Most of the DEs have the “Click something, window opens” feature.

I always think of Kiwi / Ozzie slang when I type chroot.

Of course that’s after consulting the ArchKiwi to remember how to mount it

Looks a wee bit like Calculon, facially at least; a bit skinnier in the torso.

Similar just the impact of dust over a large enough distance.

Try going up to the top of, say, a 50 storey building in a moderately polluted city during a fairly still, warm, dry spell of weather and look down at the ground.

It’ll likely look a lot more dusty than from street level.

Urgh, when you forgot to check the fool-performance charateristic curve on the datasheet and it was on a log scale.

I dont know, when most people were children they might believe their parents like that. Some of them grow up and develop minds of their own and critical thinking but others seem not to. Maybe it gets harder to grow up, the longer you spend as a child.

Or maybe you’re right and it’s an intrinsic part of human diversity - maybe the tribe has always needed some sheeple - so our genes might always create some.

A bit of healthy scientific skepticism or logical reasoning with some skills to evaluate sources of evidence and biases help with both understanding quoted stats, and liars and the ill-informed.

It’s a difficult and time consuming skill to learn and use though.

“wired”. lol.

Ooh wait 'til Musk realises he can improve US agricultural efficiency.

oh oh, I’m a below average arch user. I suspect i copied most of my hoome from debian or something.

I’ll rename it to Dickuments as a security feature.

On my routes theres some bikes that are just as bad as cars for this. Especially on unlit paths.

Cars would normally dip to low beams.

And those from the fucking UK apparently.

Very similar though - just waiting for them to elect farage to gut UK public services.