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1. cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 10:13:25 JST cool_boy_mew
   Lmao
   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 10:15:09 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • oshy
     @ocean I know and it's pathetic
   • oshy (ocean@raru.re)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 10:15:10 JST oshy

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     @coolboymew (The Pro has USB 3.0)

   • oshy (ocean@raru.re)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 10:15:11 JST oshy

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     @coolboymew Brah it's not just this, the base model iPhones are actually kinda ass. The base model also only has a 60 hertz display
     They need to just kill off the base model entirely and ONLY offer the pro

   • mangeurdenuage (mangeurdenuage@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 10:16:51 JST mangeurdenuage

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     @coolboymew
     >it's worse than before
     :OMEGALUL: :kekw: what a bunch of faggots, fanboys will defend this.
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   • BroDrillard (brodrillard@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 10:17:00 JST BroDrillard

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     Idiotic. The whole Abble announcement this year was meh.
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   • Tadano ❄️🎅 (tadano@amala.schwartzwelt.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 10:17:16 JST Tadano ❄️🎅

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     @coolboymew THE MOST HIGHLY VALUATED COMPANY IN HISTORY
     APPLEFAGS ON SUICIDE WATCH AT THIS VERY MOMENT :guratopkek:
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   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 10:17:24 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • oshy
     @ocean
     
     >70$ diff
     
     Why even bother
   • oshy (ocean@raru.re)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 10:17:25 JST oshy

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     @coolboymew I was planning on getting the Plus, but the pro is only 70$ more and doesn't have all the flaws, so it seems like it's almost pointless to have the plus or base model at all

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   • oshy (ocean@raru.re)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 10:19:39 JST oshy

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     @coolboymew You have to pay an 30$ activation fee on the base model, but Apple includes that in the pros price so it's really only 70$ difference for a masssssive spec bump

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   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 10:19:42 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • oshy
     @ocean why
   • oshy (ocean@raru.re)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 10:19:43 JST oshy

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     @coolboymew Not even just spec, but also fit and finish. The normal one is just made out of normal ass aluminum, but the pro is made out of aerospace grade titanium

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   • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 10:20:07 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @coolboymew feature phones >>> iPhone
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   • 🐦ulon :blobshp: (birdulon@shpposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 10:23:15 JST 🐦ulon :blobshp:

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     • oshy
     @coolboymew @ocean Price differential makes you feel like you get some form of value on the upsell. Without the gimped model below it, you'd just look at the sticker price and think about how expensive it is in isolation.
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   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 10:25:28 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
     • oshy
     @lanodan @ocean anyone that buys a full priced new phone release is a fool
     
     Buy it refurb later on at like 150-350$ max, practically nobody uses that much power on their phones
   • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 10:25:33 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • oshy
     @ocean @coolboymew why should a phone cost more than a decent laptop though?
   • oshy (ocean@raru.re)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 10:25:34 JST oshy

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     @coolboymew It's a 1000 dollar phone it better be made outta nice shit

   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 10:27:15 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
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     • oshy
     @feld @lanodan @ocean you're basically paying the big price and subsidizing their R&D so that they can eventually use all this shit in their other products (M1, M2). Don't do this
   • feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 10:27:16 JST feld

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
     • oshy
     Only excuse is form factor and low power. We're paying through the nose for it
   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 10:27:32 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
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     • DeadKennedy
     @ElDeadKennedy @lanodan @ocean that's a little too low
   • DeadKennedy (eldeadkennedy@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 10:27:33 JST DeadKennedy

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
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     @coolboymew @lanodan @ocean samsung galaxy s3 with shattered screen running Replicant is all you need
   • :hacker_c::hacker_o::hacker_c::hacker_h::hacker_i::hacker_s::hacker_e: (constantine2nd@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 10:29:38 JST :hacker_c::hacker_o::hacker_c::hacker_h::hacker_i::hacker_s::hacker_e:

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     Unless you get the pro max
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   • DeadKennedy (eldeadkennedy@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 10:29:49 JST DeadKennedy

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
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     • DeadKennedy
     @coolboymew @lanodan @ocean (I lied, you will also need an external battery)
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   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 10:29:53 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
     • oshy
     @ocean @lanodan bruh
   • oshy (ocean@raru.re)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 10:29:54 JST oshy

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

     @coolboymew @lanodan Hehe I guess Oshie is a fool, I'm probably gonna buy the 15 Pro Max

     You can buy refurb older iPhones for way cheaper yeah, but I want the warranty and insurance because I have crippling anxiety & also iPhone repairs are pricey without it

   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 10:30:48 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
     • oshy
     @lanodan @ocean Not the latest S series and such
     
     What do you mean by "flagship" tho'?
   • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 10:30:51 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • oshy
     @coolboymew @ocean Are flagship android phones not at ~350$ anymore?
   • 🐦ulon :blobshp: (birdulon@shpposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 10:34:45 JST 🐦ulon :blobshp:

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     @feld @lanodan @ocean @coolboymew >form factor
     I would have purchased a Pro Mini with USB-C had one existed. The only thing that stopped me from impulse buying a 13 Mini last year was the realization that I don't have a single Lightning cable and it didn't come with a charger.
     
     I just want to go back to the pre-phablet era and have a Galaxy S2 sized smartphone that isn't deliberately worse than my 2019 midrange.
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   • スカイラー🎄🇷🇺 :z: (skylar@misskey.yandere.love)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 10:34:51 JST スカイラー🎄🇷🇺 :z:

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     @ocean @coolboymew NO
     DEATH TO THE BIG PHONE
     IF I WANTED A TABLET I WOULD BUY A TABLET
     
     honestly i don't like any of the new iphones for removing the button
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   • Mondobizarrro (mondobizarrro@social.xenofem.me)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 10:39:34 JST Mondobizarrro

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
     • oshy
     @lanodan @ocean @coolboymew i use a google pixel 6. Personally id love a pixel fold when they come out but like i hate everything google is doing. But they are the only android phones i kinda like. I do wanna look into other os to put on my phone that doesnt fucking restrict my access without rooting it
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   • Mondobizarrro (mondobizarrro@social.xenofem.me)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 10:39:38 JST Mondobizarrro

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
     • oshy
     @lanodan @ocean @coolboymew flag ship androids are like 800-1000 just like crapple now. They are still a few hundred bucks cheaper but they arent as cheap as they used to be.
   • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 10:39:38 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • Mondobizarrro
     @Mondobizarrro @ocean @coolboymew Then one more reason to keep caring about feature phones instead of this bullshit of crappy devices all around.
   • Hollyjollytailspike (monsterislandcolonizer@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 10:42:41 JST Hollyjollytailspike

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
     • oshy
     i got an S9+ refurbished for $350
     great deal and it was a huge upgrade from what i had at the time
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   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 10:43:47 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @monsterislandcolonizer @lanodan @ocean that's what I did. I had an S6 refurb then a few years ago I got an S8+ for 350$CAD refurb. Never pay full price
     
     It was enough to play SIFAS in full graphics including the extra settings they released later
   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 10:46:15 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
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     @birdulon @lanodan @ocean I say it doesn't make sense because smartphone sucks ass as a computer, too limited, and people doesn't even use half that fucking power in general
   • 🐦ulon :blobshp: (birdulon@shpposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 10:46:16 JST 🐦ulon :blobshp:

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
     • oshy
     @lanodan @ocean @coolboymew the market forces make sense when you realize smartphones are some people's entire computing budgets and they sell or trade-in their previous model
   • Hollyjollytailspike (monsterislandcolonizer@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 10:46:30 JST Hollyjollytailspike

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     i think i had an s6 too. i don't recall at this point
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   • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 10:49:47 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @birdulon @ocean @coolboymew Which is just horrible, you can't actually use a smartphone as a general purpose computer, both the software and the hardware are made locked and dumbed down. You can't actually do important shit on a smartphone.
     And they become worthless fast.
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   • ロミンちゃん (romin@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 10:50:48 JST ロミンちゃん

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     @coolboymew I'm going back to a 3310.
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   • vixn (vixn@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 10:52:45 JST vixn

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     @coolboymew the pro has usb 3 tho lol

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   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 10:53:58 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
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     @birdulon @lanodan @ocean they can't, nobody is using phones that way
   • 🐦ulon :blobshp: (birdulon@shpposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 10:53:59 JST 🐦ulon :blobshp:

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     @lanodan @ocean @coolboymew They can do everything they want to on it, including things artificially restricted from being done on general purpose computers. They don't care about 5 year product lifetimes because they planned to trade up to a newer model in that timeframe anyway.
   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 10:55:34 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @ocean @lanodan @birdulon I don't believe it
   • oshy (ocean@raru.re)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 10:55:36 JST oshy

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     @coolboymew @lanodan @birdulon

     I hope I'm not coming off as rude but thats exactly how normal people use phones

     Homie just described basically every single one of my coworkers

   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 10:57:07 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • oshy
     @ocean @lanodan @birdulon Yeah, they use their phone as their "computers", but they end up doing nothing in particular with them, they basically end up using a completely cucked computer. They absolutely don't attach a mouse and keyboard and does fancy shit on it
   • oshy (ocean@raru.re)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 10:57:08 JST oshy

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     @coolboymew @lanodan @birdulon

     I tell them I have a Mac and they look at me like an Alien

   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 10:59:49 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
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     @ocean @lanodan @birdulon a "normal person" does nothing with their computers. 100% they does nothing good on their phones either and they won't do anything good either because the entire phone infrastructure is preventing them the possibility to learn to do anything good with it
   • oshy (ocean@raru.re)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 10:59:50 JST oshy

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     @coolboymew @lanodan @birdulon iPhone kinda does everything a normal person would want to do with a computer
     You can even do your taxes on it now

   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 11:14:41 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @mischievoustomato @lanodan @ocean phones sucks and are retards computers where everything is controlled and even if it wasn't, it's ass to do anything
     
     Modern UI are not made to do anything complicated on it
   • Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@5dollah.click)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 11:14:42 JST Johnny Peligro

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
     • oshy
     @lanodan @ocean @coolboymew why not? whats the issue
   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 11:16:12 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • スカイラー🎄🇷🇺 :z:
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     • Johnny Peligro
     @mischievoustomato @ocean @skylar I just do this on my TV
   • Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@5dollah.click)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 11:16:13 JST Johnny Peligro

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     @skylar @ocean @coolboymew i used to dislike big phones but they're great for watching animu or youtube or console gaming
   • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 11:27:24 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @skylar @ocean @coolboymew Laptops are *all* going to shit even though they never really were good devices even right from the start. Hence why I have low standards for them.
     I wouldn't hope that a docking station would work fine, in fact I would bet on them being broken in a way or another.
     
     And honestly I'd almost say that a corporation which ever forced laptops for work has always been about forcing garbage machines that cannot ever be relied on onto their employees.
   • スカイラー🎄🇷🇺 :z: (skylar@misskey.yandere.love)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 11:27:25 JST スカイラー🎄🇷🇺 :z:

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     @lanodan @ocean @coolboymew it's ogre
     thinkpads are now somehow worse than the crummiest consumer laptops. lenovo's entire QC team must only exist to meet their quota of employees with disabilities, cause everyone on it is legitimately retarded.
     at work we couldn't get our normal choice of HP elitebooks and zbooks during the coof and settled for thinkpads. at least a quarter of them had to be sent in for warranty repairs within a couple months, the docking stations never worked right so every morning there were multiple tickets in about monitors not working. unplug it a few times, reboot, rub it counterclockwise while standing on one foot, try and align it with the moons of saturn, attempt firmware updates and driver updates/rollbacks in vain, nothing changed and they'd break again tomorrow. people went back to 4-6 year old HP elitebooks that were beat to shit and had batteries that couldn't last an hour. some of em probably got thrown in the e-waste before the warranty was even up they were so bad.
     i had a personal thinkpad i got for cheap a long time before that, and even then it was mediocre at best. the good memories folks have must come from back when they were owned by IBM.
   • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 11:27:29 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @skylar @ocean @coolboymew For a 1K$ you can get a thinkpad, sure they're not as good as they used to be but I'd say they're decent.
     (There's no *good* laptop anymore though)
   • スカイラー🎄🇷🇺 :z: (skylar@misskey.yandere.love)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 11:27:30 JST スカイラー🎄🇷🇺 :z:

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
     • oshy
     @lanodan @ocean @coolboymew there are no decent laptops for a thousand burger town fun coupons
     it will be some horrible consumer trash made of bottom bin parts and plastic, featuring an extra dim, low-resolution display powered by the most underpowered integrated graphics on the market that choke on rendering a browser window of static text and images at 1366x768. you will pick it up by the corner and it will bend to a disturbing degree. it will feature the slowest dogshit WiFi card on the market with equally dogshit drivers, and the only USB-C port will get loose by the 7th month of use and fail completely at 15 months, so it may never be charged again.
   • Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@5dollah.click)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 11:27:30 JST Johnny Peligro

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     • Tadano ❄️🎅
     @Tadano @coolboymew sorry you're too retarded to use syncthing or telegram for file sharing ig. i fucking hate cables
   • Tadano ❄️🎅 (tadano@amala.schwartzwelt.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 11:27:30 JST Tadano ❄️🎅

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     • Johnny Peligro
     @mischievoustomato @coolboymew I HATE WIRELESS I HATE UNRELIABLE CONNECTION :trollihtac:
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   • Tadano ❄️🎅 (tadano@amala.schwartzwelt.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 11:27:31 JST Tadano ❄️🎅

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     • Johnny Peligro
     @mischievoustomato @coolboymew what are you fucking gay? oh wait :igarashismug:
   • Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@5dollah.click)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 11:27:32 JST Johnny Peligro

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     • Tadano ❄️🎅
     @Tadano @coolboymew tbqh I don't do cable file transfers anymore except in very rare ocasions and those are tiny files
   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 11:28:04 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • oshy
     @lanodan @ocean @skylar No choice to switch to laptops for WFH
     
     Otherwise for big tasks we just bought gamer laptops instead of getting garbo HP contracts and it's somehow working well so far
     
     Some of the weirdest computer issues I've had were with HP. Their dual integrated + graphic card shit literally does not work, I've seen like 3 different laptops of theirs in a row that fucked up in that regard
   • スカイラー🎄🇷🇺 :z: (skylar@misskey.yandere.love)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 11:28:14 JST スカイラー🎄🇷🇺 :z:

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     • Tadano ❄️🎅
     • Johnny Peligro
     @mischievoustomato @Tadano @coolboymew USB 2 is fine
     the only thing i ever use my cable for is the rare backup to my PC, and more often plugging in accessories (i have a thermal camera and a boroscope)
   • Tadano ❄️🎅 (tadano@amala.schwartzwelt.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 11:28:14 JST Tadano ❄️🎅

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     • Johnny Peligro
     @skylar @mischievoustomato @coolboymew USB2 is fine for applications that don't require much bandwidth, but file transfer from a phone can use a lot of it especially with images and videos. Furthermore, the cost is so minimal there's no excuse for USB3 speeds to not be standard on all phones. It's not like you're dealing with complicated I/O handling multiple ports, it's just one.
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   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 11:30:49 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • oshy
     @lanodan @ocean @skylar As for "docks", Anker USB-C multidongle does the job normally
   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 11:36:46 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @lanodan @ocean @skylar we had to ditch desktop because shipping them are a fucking nightmare. Plus laptops are easy to ship, and people can bring them occasionally to the office if they want
     
     I have bought desktop/laptops on and off a lot in the last few years and you can pretty much get a laptop of the power of a desktop for not that much more, with the latest cards and all that
     
     However, the shells are plasticy garbage, but surprisingly, very little hardware problems or shell problems from the work gamer laptops. For normal office work we used some intel whitebooks, some Asus, etc.
     
     I avoid the fuck out of HP and the usual office bullshit
   • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 11:36:50 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @coolboymew @ocean @skylar Yeah, worst part of salaryman WFH but some corporations do allow you to get desktops with them paying either the full price or a part of it.
     
     I could maybe understand laptops for temporary employees but when it's for one you hire for several years it's just being greedy.
   • guizzy (in exile) (guizzy@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 11:44:22 JST guizzy (in exile)

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     @mischievoustomato @lanodan @ocean @coolboymew @skylar Resolution on some Zenbooks makes no sense tho. Mine's got a 2880x1800 13-inch screen, I think Macbook Air 13 are not far from this too. If it weren't for the fact that UI scaling is now thankfully standard almost everywhere it would make interfaces unusably small, and I usually have to cut games' resolution in a full half for the hardware to cope (though render scale is thankfully also becoming standard and helping a lot here too).
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   • Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@5dollah.click)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 11:44:23 JST Johnny Peligro

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     @skylar @lanodan @ocean @coolboymew 1366x768 laptops should be a crime.
     i wanna get a cool asus zenbook or macbook someday
   • スカイラー🎄🇷🇺 :z: (skylar@misskey.yandere.love)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 11:50:15 JST スカイラー🎄🇷🇺 :z:

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     @lanodan @ocean @coolboymew i expect laptops to work, even if they're less powerful and don't last as long as desktops. that only starts to really happen above $2000-2500. it'll come with the discrete workstation GPU, reasonable processor/RAM/storage, 1920x1080 or better screen, and likely the sort of 3 year warranty where you just open a ticket they'll overnight you the part and/or sent a tech to your office the next business day to repair it.
     i also expect docks to work. the occasional need to unplug either the power cord or the USB-C connector is fair, but daily problems with one or more displays or USB peripherals not connecting are unacceptable. so far there's been one of the dell docks, the cube shaped HP thunderbolt dock G2, and the microsoft surface dock have met my expectations.
     
     laptops for work are wonderful, if you need one. the convenience of having your shit on one machine that can be physically moved around outweighs the slight performance hit and occasional need for an unexpected reboot. with everything being cloud hosted and accessed through the browser these days, combined with aggressive idle timeouts and MFA requirements, a single machine that just seemlessly goes from my desk at home to my desk at the office to completely usable sitting on a switch in a network closet somewhere is soooo worth it.
     completely in-office folks obviously need a desktop and access to check out one of a few shared conference laptops, but i say completely WFH folks should be issued a desktop, monitors, and a teleworker gateway.
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   • rdr (rdr@marsey.moe)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 11:50:28 JST rdr

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     @coolboymew @lanodan @ocean @skylar I don't have a laptop, just desktop and phone which does what I need on the go. I don't work in tech tho
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   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 11:51:31 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @rdr @lanodan @ocean @skylar I have a freaking macbook for work because I needed one for the weird deeper Mac OS problems and not having one on hand to mess with wouldn't have helped me to learn to fix these issues
     
     I just wish I had linux tho'
   • sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 11:51:40 JST sj_zero

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     I've been happy with the last couple MSIs I bought. The last alienware I bought was.... it was fine.... I guess....
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   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 11:52:26 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @sj_zero @lanodan @ocean @skylar We usually buy from MSI I believe, but the laptops availabilities are extremely volatile and can't always have that
   • スカイラー🎄🇷🇺 :z: (skylar@misskey.yandere.love)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 11:54:14 JST スカイラー🎄🇷🇺 :z:

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     @coolboymew @lanodan @ocean wait til you see the wild shit microsoft pulls with their surface books
     the base is detachable. the nvidia card is in the base.
     their QC are also wankers, but if you manage to get a good one, it's a decent computing experience.
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   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 11:55:01 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @skylar @lanodan @ocean detachable and there's major component in the base? That's nuts
     
     I know external graphic cards are a thing, but I never thought I'd hear that be actually used like that
   • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 11:59:19 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @coolboymew @ocean @skylar Wild but makes sense in a way, base likely also comes with extra battery.
     And other than with Xorg external GPUs are likely well supported by now.
     
     Hopefully the base can be locked like on transformables rather than iPad "just sitting on it" style.
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   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 11:59:50 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @lanodan @ocean @skylar I'd hope so, because it would be bad for it to disconnect during some heavy use of the CPU
   • スカイラー🎄🇷🇺 :z: (skylar@misskey.yandere.love)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 12:09:25 JST スカイラー🎄🇷🇺 :z:

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     @lanodan @ocean @coolboymew there is an extra battery down there, and it does lock on so it's usable as an ordinary laptop or a tablet. it's just a key on the keyboard to release it, and it won't do it if an application is using the nvidia card, unless you press and hold for the emergency disconnect.
     also the charger cord/docking cord will plug straight into the tablet-lid so it's still usable if there's a problem with the base.
     it's a clever, well executed design, but QC was just not their strength. and until the newest ones, they're impossible to repair or upgrade.
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   • sapphire (sapphire@shortstacksran.ch)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 12:09:29 JST sapphire

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     @coolboymew only on the poorfag models lol, ethics in tech journalism
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   • LurkPerry (lurkperry@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 12:29:30 JST LurkPerry

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     Sounds poor in here green chat bubble 🤣🤣🤣
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   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 12:36:37 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @skylar @lanodan @ocean @birdulon I have not opened a lot of then, but those I did, yes, the SSDs and RAM, the two component you're most likely to fuck around with
   • スカイラー🎄🇷🇺 :z: (skylar@misskey.yandere.love)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 12:36:38 JST スカイラー🎄🇷🇺 :z:

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     @birdulon @lanodan @ocean @coolboymew pretty much all laptops are serviceable. i pull a lot of SSDs to be secure erased and the majority are easy to access.
   • 🐦ulon :blobshp: (birdulon@shpposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 12:36:39 JST 🐦ulon :blobshp:

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     @skylar @lanodan @ocean @coolboymew >the good memories folks have must come from back when they were owned by IBM.
     A lot of it feels like a cargo cult a few generations down the line when nobody has even seen first hand what a proper laptop is supposed to be.
     
     It's easy to think the chiclet keyboard isn't a problem when you don't have a T60 sitting next to you. It's easy to think 16:9 with a 3cm bottom bezel and 2cm top bezel is an acceptable use of space if you don't have a laptop that was actually designed to fit the panel chosen. The TrackPoint is a rare feature and the best pointer on them... except other laptops have better touchpads, and the Tex Shinobi's TrackPoint blows the Lenovo ones out of the water.
     
     But that's ok, because ThinkPads are built with serviceability in mind unlike consumer jun- wait what's that? One of the SODIMMs is soldered? Who cares, I can still get 40GB running at a lower frequency because of mismatched memory channels, nobody should want 64GB anyway, ThinkPad Master Race!
   • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 12:43:41 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @skylar @ocean @coolboymew @birdulon SSD is only a pain with Apple and some shitty netbooks.
     
     Keyboard replacement? Pain on at least 3/4 of laptops and you're pretty much done for if there's no official spare parts because it's model-dependent.
     Fan replacement? That's where I'd draw the serviceable line at.
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   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 12:44:14 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @lanodan @ocean @birdulon @skylar SSD is not possible with apple anymore, ain't it? Like, the audio port or something is the only repairable part anymore on it isn't it?
   • Dovahkiin (dovahkiin@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 12:46:23 JST Dovahkiin

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     What's inexplicable about it? It's for money lol
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   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 12:51:51 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @lanodan @ocean @birdulon @skylar oh yeah, we don't have the staff to even properly sell them, it sucks really hard
   • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 12:51:52 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @skylar @ocean @coolboymew @birdulon Which is literally why laptops aren't worth it anymore, corporations are their highest buyers by far and they'll throw them away at the slightest hint of them being not worth it anymore (warranties are supposed to be to fix factory issues, they're not something like maintenance contracts).
     
     So they just make flimsy plastic shit and since most corporations don't evaluate the hardware before getting bulks, they're also low-quality, with people using weird workarounds instead.
   • スカイラー🎄🇷🇺 :z: (skylar@misskey.yandere.love)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 12:51:53 JST スカイラー🎄🇷🇺 :z:

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     @lanodan @ocean @coolboymew @birdulon all of those are kinda things where if it's old enough to be out of warranty, it's probably time to e-waste it
     could i look up the manufacturer's procedure to disassemble it, locate a part number, track down a place to order it from, and then put it back together with the new one? sure
     but with the amount of time it'd take times my billable rate (or even desktop support's) for a 3+ year old laptop? nope you're getting a new one.
   • guizzy (in exile) (guizzy@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 13:04:47 JST guizzy (in exile)

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     @lanodan @ocean @coolboymew @skylar I've worked for 12 years in a company that supplied exclusively laptops for work and they've been fine, until management insisted they wanted ultrabooks. Ultrabooks are not meant for the rigors of 8 hours a day, 5 days a week usage, their tiny fans have to spin extra fast to compensate for the quick heat build up in their small cases and the bearings wear out, the hinges are smaller and weaker and they're extra annoying to service for tasks that in-house IT used to be able to do quickly. Oh and the batteries are smaller and as such their capacity drops to inadequate levels faster. Ultrabooks are fine for personal computers, they're just not work machines; just like you wouldn't bring a sports car to haul cargo.
     
     Current job's asked me when hiring me what laptop I wanted, I asked an HP Elitebook 840 G9. Thing's been stable and reliable so far.
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   • スカイラー🎄🇷🇺 :z: (skylar@misskey.yandere.love)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 13:05:47 JST スカイラー🎄🇷🇺 :z:

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     @birdulon @lanodan @ocean @coolboymew sometimes i feel bad for taking like a couple tons of e-waste a year to the scrapyard that accepts it. disposal is my responsibility so it's mine to do what i want with it after the drives are secure erased and it's removed from inventory, but i don't have the time or energy to test things out, separate the good from the bad, clean it up, list it for sale somewhere, and then deal with people who are probably annoying cheap fucks to sell it.
     i give away the good shit to friends for free and the rest gets recycled.
   • 🐦ulon :blobshp: (birdulon@shpposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 13:05:48 JST 🐦ulon :blobshp:

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     @skylar @lanodan @ocean @coolboymew that's the disconnect between first-world work environments and starving uni students picking up ebay deals
   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 13:06:10 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @skylar @lanodan @ocean @birdulon Give them to local charities
   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 13:14:42 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @rdr @lanodan @ocean @skylar ehhhh I'm okaaaaay with it with what I do. I just really wish it was Linux instead
     
     But I need it for ABM iDevices bullshit and help desk Mac issues
   • rdr (rdr@marsey.moe)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 13:14:43 JST rdr

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     @coolboymew @lanodan @ocean @skylar I'll take your macbook
   • スカイラー🎄🇷🇺 :z: (skylar@misskey.yandere.love)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 13:14:59 JST スカイラー🎄🇷🇺 :z:

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     @coolboymew @lanodan @ocean @birdulon the last time i tried they never responded to my email
     maybe "skylar's dumb shit fund" could be a charity, except i don't need more money i need more time off work
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   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 13:15:43 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @skylar @lanodan @ocean @birdulon lame
     
     Maybe there's more charities around? Hell, maybe even dumping them at a local computer store. It's not really about the money, but just not immediately trashing working laptops
   • guizzy (in exile) (guizzy@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 13:18:35 JST guizzy (in exile)

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     @coolboymew @skylar @birdulon @lanodan @ocean I wish there was a way to just get these into the hands of kids instead of the Chromebooks schools are making them buy.
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   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 13:18:44 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @guizzy @birdulon @lanodan @ocean @skylar I hate chromebooks so much
   • DeadKennedy (eldeadkennedy@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 13:18:50 JST DeadKennedy

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     @coolboymew @rdr @lanodan @ocean @skylar I don't think I've ever seen a MacBook in person (thank God)
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   • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 13:19:08 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @skylar @ocean @coolboymew @birdulon Yeah charities are probably too volunteer-based to really be able to deal with much corporate hardware.
     Here there is some reuse/recycling corporations.
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   • guizzy (in exile) (guizzy@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 20:59:15 JST guizzy (in exile)

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     @coolboymew @birdulon @lanodan @ocean @skylar I get the point of the OS for schools, reduce complexity to the bare minimum and you get rid of most of the technical problems that teachers don't have time or knowledge to deal with. But it's such a waste that so many purposely gimped, low-end machines get built and tossed while companies struggle with what to do with much more powerful mid-range/high-end business computers they're replacing. I understand there's reasons why schools might be reluctant to source used/refurbished computers like this unless they're able to get all the same model of computer for everyone, but still.
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   • sapphire (sapphire@shortstacksran.ch)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 22:08:21 JST sapphire

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     @skylar @lanodan @ocean @coolboymew >there are no good laptops for a grand
     The M1 MacBook Air is for sale at that price and is a fantastic value if you get over your autism about buttons for five seconds
   • スカイラー🎄🇷🇺 :z: (skylar@misskey.yandere.love)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 22:08:43 JST スカイラー🎄🇷🇺 :z:

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     @sapphire @lanodan @ocean @coolboymew t. man who can't right click
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   • burner (burner@norwoodzero.net)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 23:45:57 JST burner

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     get a moto
     
     got mine new for 300 bucks, has a decent snapdragon, 6gb of ram, headphone jack, and an sd card slot
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