Hold up what? Your ability to do work with the device after the OS has been updated a couple of times and performance degraded to avoid drawing too much current from an under-specified battery?

It would arguably be a better solution technically, but I suspect that most people want to use one app at a bigger size than two apps at once. And then you've either got content spread over two screens with stuff in the middle, or the app has to be designed around the screen layout. And that either won't be done or will be done poorly in the majority of cases.

Yep. If it supported modern standards I'd still be using mine, and then hotspotting for a device with more screen when I needed that. Carrying two devices is nonoptimal, but so is holding a brick up to my ear, and fixing that with a headset would ALSO require carrying two devices.

Modern leather isn't suitable for food, it's got too much plastic on it.

All ACs are the same LLM as far as I'm concerned.

Yeah, the company's interests are financial. That's what companies are for. The military's interests are also financial. People may think they're enlisting to serve their country, but they're really serving oligarchs. We have to blow up the middle east so we can rebuild it in our image — at great expense... and benefit to corporations like Halliburton who get awarded the no-bid contracts (sometimes literally, sometimes figuratively - I'm picking on Halliburton here not just because they deserve it in general, but because they were declared to be the only corporations capable of doing the job the last time around, short-circuiting the legally mandated bidding process.)

Deere has been the most famous poster child of sticking it to the consumer and locking them in for a very long time. So it is startlingly good news that anything is happening... but it sounds like very little compared to their gains and damage caused. Also I don't get why just 10 years, these things last a long time. This kind of equipment can cost a lot of money per hour of downtime. (Caveat: I've worked on afterservice parts software for a big mining and construction machinery manufacturer... afterservice parts is like the razorblades business model multiplied by lots of expensive time constraints and logistics) Tldr; but what is needed is a law about afterservice parts. Are the owners of the equipment going to be able to buy parts from based on like Cummins parts catalog and run telemetry if that is a thing in Deere? After 10 years if their model's parts and software is no longer supported will they open source it, provide 3D design files or equivalent parts in major catalogs? Will they be able to only provide windows binaries that work with windows 11? Can machines and support packages be transferred? New machines need to become as maintainable as old machines, for as long as the materials last. Probably, they probably have a lot of ways left to fuck with people and still have a big incentive to do so. Not doing so will cut into potential profit.

I've owned a lot of resistive touch devices. Zero of them were "very precise". Most of them had a lot of depth so you'd struggle to pick pixels even when they were big enough to easily count. Palm Pilots and Visors, Zoomer/GRiDPad 2390, an HTC phone, blah blah blah. Phones had plastic screens because gorilla glass hadn't been invented yet. Jobs was irritated by his scratched plastic screen at exactly the right time and yes, made the right call. Yes, a plastic stylus on a resistive screen is more precise than your finger, but it's also either irritatingly tiny or you are just having to carry around more shit.

In fact, the most precise non-wacom screen device I've ever used was the capacitive glass screen on the GRiDPad 1910... also a device where a well-sighted (or near-sighted) person can count pixels, but there you can also actually touch them. But then that's got a tethered pen. I have GEOS on mine, with Graffiti. That is precise... But still not as precise as my lady's Fujitsu tablet with Wacom. That's what you'd use now if you needed precision, a radio pen. There was a company which sold an IBM 486SLC-based portable called Dauphin which had one that ran on batteries, how tragic... but it was precise. Unfortunately it was also as thick as a pretty good-sized hardback book.

Can't have your security broken if there is no security. I like the cut of your jib.

I've been through a few Kindles, honestly would be surprised anything lasts that long. Mainly Kindle Unlimited is an amazing deal. But, if there was a better ereader that is light, book dimensions, e-ink and has big letters with similar library even if I have to pay for each book I would switch. The two main glaring issues besides KU being really addictive are: 1) DRM, and 2) absolutely miniscule system font size. They allow very large text font size, but the fonts used in the file list, UI, About this book etc. are so tiny it is painful to read. They also keep messing with the UI without delivering much that is useful while continuing to ignore that e-ink users might need larger text.

Why don't you go read his response, Dildo Draggins?

Sure, after you set fire to my old device, you want me to buy another device you will originally set fire to. It's book burning by proxy.

...a lot of shit nobody takes seriously in general, even moreso since the Nazis took them over.

The problem in this case is that Microsoft has a long and extremely well documented history of both of these things.

This is how literally all major markets work.