Capitalism is about people benefiting from improving capital, which is basically private property rights.

Money != capital.

For the same price you can get a much more capable machine in the Mac mini

It's rough carrying your monitor around with you.

With the Neo you are not going to be able to do much more than browse the web, use web application, play simple games, and use it as fancy typewriter.

Heavens, what ever did we do before the 2020s? Play simple games and use fancy typewriters I guess. Although I do wonder where the first web app came from, the one that let us make all the other web apps.

... given how many have left.

YOU use something does not mean everyone else has your wants, needs, resources, etc. Some uses for that shitty 3.5mm jack exist because upgrading that existing equipment is expensive. For example, airplanes. For people like me, I have lots of equipment have those jacks. Some have alternate means of outputting sound but USB headphones don't work on legacy equipment without an adapter or other equipment. And there are people who simply don't care about the best sound or DAC.

Hey it will be here in time for my flying car. Just you wait.

If it's like every spam caller I have had, they claim to be one of my cousins. . . which don't exist. Or a "friend" with the same first name that refuses to give out their last name or how we know each other. For example, I got two different calls from my friend "Susan" for two different things. When I texted Susan, she was like, "WTF is going on?"

They are lies and you know it, Tony.

BAHAHAHAHAHAAH. Good one, Tony. Tony: "Texas has no snowplows." TxDOT: "We have many snowplows." You: "That's poor media literacy." Why must you lie so much Tony?

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Tony: "Texas in snowplows don't exist." Media: "Here's news footage on snowplows in Texas removing snow." You:" That was all careful editing to fool you." I think you misunderstand what a "fact" is.

NO ONE said snowplows pave 100% of roads. No one. Not even up north where they have snow all winter are 100% of roads plowed. What Tony constantly lies about was that snowplows do in fact exist in Texas, and that they are used in snow storms for SOME roads. More specifically roads like highways and main thoroughfares. His point again is that they don't exist which again is a LIE.

Tony: There are no snowplows. TxDOT: There are 700. You: 700==0 because . . . No True Scotsman. Tony was caught in an easily debunked lie but he continues to excuse it with whatever means necessary.

Do you not understand what the word, "road" means? Tony would like you to believe that no snow plows exist in Texas and thus are never used ON THE ROADS. We have footage of them being used. Every snow storm. Ambiguous. Please. Tony is trying to excuse his lies. That's all.

Depends. Audiophiles using the best headphones want the best of everything including the best DACs. But ordinary consumers use headphones with 3.5mm audio jacks that have been around forever. For example, when I have a Zoom/Slack/Teams meeting, I use 3.5mm wired headphones not to disturb the people around me and for some privacy. To me the best DAC is rather useless in that scenario. If I am watching movies and TV episodes on my laptop like on a plane, I use headphones because I am not a sociopath. Some content don't require the best sound. (Like reruns of The Office)

And you missed the point. A budget laptop is geared towards budget consumers not professionals. While professionals can use it, the laptop is not designed for them. Thus it might want to have a headphone jack.

I'll just tell all the consumer electronic equipment manufacturers they need to come to my house and change out their ports on the equipment I already own. Also when I am on a plane the next time, they should phased out audio jacks long ago. I have that kind of power. . . . no I don't. Do you have that kind of power as you are the one who is demanding I change out my equipment? And everyone else's equipment because you want to use $20 headphones.

Don’t they hate the government meddling in their affairs?

Yes. They love it when it meddles in other people's affairs though. Demand it in fact.

More like going from Slashdot post to Java. Truthy sounding but incorrect proofs that suck up people's time aren't just an AI thing. Mathematicians have been arguing for 15 years whether the ABC conjecture has been proven or not.

We are living out the TV show. Everything in that show is coming true (if it wasn't already).

If you haven't seen it, it is very entertaining, and now almost seemingly prophetic.

Internet says yes:

https://www.msmosquito.org/mos...

That's fine, and you now have a button to choose.

it is my device, i decide what do do.

This is pretty silly though. There are a whole bunch of decisions in any non-trivial bit of electronics that you have nothing to do with. Would you like the processor not to thermal throttle either? Perhaps you'd like to choose whether the power supplies switch from PWM to PFM mode?