If you insist, you can get something like this:

https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/pages/pyra/

All the buttons you could ever want, and no walled garden at all.

        SPARC has been GPL for years (Score:?)
        by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 17, 2018 @03:51PM

        Risc-V never was the only game in town; SPARC has been avaialable under the GPLv2 since 2006: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSPARC

VMS still has a hobbyist license program, at least. Iâ(TM)ve got it up both in emulation and on real HW (DS 10). Really a great system, actually, and still shows how security should be done in some respects. The actual crypto may be a bit out of date, but the model is solid fir a multiuser system.

fing slashcode... imagine quotes where the garbage appears...

NetBSD4EVA!

OK, maybe an âoffâ(TM) definition of âbigâ(TM), but if you need an OS for an odd box, NetBSD is the go-to, so itâ(TM)s an important project.

I continue to be impressed by NetBSD's multiplatform support. Even as Linux has retreated from older architectures, NetBSD keeps support alive.

I'd like to know where you get 'double digits' from. BLS tracks a much broader measure of unemployment, U6, in addition to the headline figure. That measure is: "Total unemployed, plus all marginally attached workers plus total employed part time for economic reasons, as a percent of all civilian labor force plus all marginally attached workers". The most recent figure for that is 7.9%. Much higher than the most frequently reported measure, but not 'doubld digits'.

Yep, and it's almost usable, too. OTOH, Qubes is focused on the workstation. For network-level isolation, it's really hard to beat two firewalls from different manufacturers and code bases back-to-back.

Think Internet--PaloAlto--Sophos UTM--LAN (Substitute any two other unrelated NG firewalls)

Systems on the inside initiate all connections; no reaching in. That means having staging DBs, etc. on the outside that are polled from the inside by transfer routines that parse and validate everything outside of the application that receives the data. Anything that does not positively match expected input is dropped. If you really want to be serious, all systems log externally to a log host with WORM drives that has had the transmit pin on the NIC physically cut (mostly kidding -- hi Marcus!).

Remote access is terminal services or equivalent to a concentrator on the outside and a second hop internally with separate authentication at each hop. Absolutely no VPN or other tunneling that supports direct traffic flow from outside to inside.

SecureID or other token-based auth is mandatory.

Stupidly expensive and a pain to configure and maintain correctly, but very secure. If you need to ask, you probably don't need it and can't afford it.

My issue is that 'no tipping - it's included' is one of the major attractions of Uber. I don't mind paying whatever the fair cost of the service is, but don't ask me to rate and pay your employees, too.

To address the inevitable: I recognize reality and tip at restaurants, in cabs, Uber drivers, etc. I JUST DON'T LIKE IT. I was very much attracted to a service that factored lair cost in to the base fare, and took off my list of things to think about.

Yeah, except that my MacBook Pro more or less hits specs, also. I say more or less, but it's a 2012, so the battery isn't new. During a typical day for me (Outlook, Word, Excel, Safari), it still lasts a full workday. No compiling, VM usage, or other intense usage, so not everyone's use case, but not absurd, either. Apple estimates are not promises, but seem to me more accurate than others.

Mine too, probably. I've gotten interested in Qubes, and I can see where having the security/management firmware for the processor open and auditable would be a good fit for increasing overall system varefiability, reducing the need for trust.

I can sort-of agree with this, but I'd like to add something more specific: since the Internet has become ubiquitous, it seems like we spend almost as much time and effort patching and securing our computers as we do using them. When a personal computer was an island unto itself, and a LAN was truly local, security was mostly a matter of basic policies, procedures, and permissions applying to a known and reachable population.

Now, companies and even individuals are subjected to an asymmetrical threat environment were they need to be prepared to secure their systems from a never-ending stream of phishing attempts, drive-by malware, and possibly even targeted attacks. Playing defense is hard, since a defender has to be strong everywhere at all times. An attacker only has to find one weak point, one time to establish a penetration.

It's exhausting, and not even remotely fun unless you are in the infosec field, and can afford to treat it as a competition and source of business rather than a bottomless pit of time and effort with no return in productivity, fun, or profit.

If not, then it's not an MBP competitor.

It may be a cheaper, have better specs, be better designed, be better built, have a longer warranty, or even all of the above, but if it doesn't run OSX, it's not a replacement for an MBP.

Of course, if OSX isn't important to you for whatever reason, why would you buy a Mac? That is their only real differentiator, and has been since high DPI ultrabooks began shipping from quality manufacturers. I do include 'need OSX-only applications', 'don't like Windows high DPI handling', and 'need proper color calibration across HW and SW' as 'OSX is important to you'.

Basically, a System76 running Linux is only competitor for an MBP for the very small segment of the market that want's a nice UNIX-like preinstalled on laptop hardware designed to support it and doesn't want a Dell developer edition.

iPhone 7/7plus. HDR plus full color management to properly display sRGB content. PC monitors exist as well that can support 10-bit per channel color, but again, you'll need color management to avoid screwing up all of the content that assumes sRGB.