Good grief, friend, who sets your HW budget?

That's how far...

It's been ages, but Linux compatibility used to be terrible on relatively well selling HW. Dell, in particular, was terrible enough that I gave up trying.

Get a cheap-ish two year old T-series ThinkPad. It'll be fine.

> What if you could sit in?

Then you still couldn't play at their level.

I don't get it either, beyond "10% more Bootsy, 100% less Flea on the bass", and algorithmic music generation?

Music is in a precarious place right now, but that sounds awful.

Portable, maybe, if you're buying good to excellent HW, but power efficiency and fanless have come a long way over the last decade.

15 hr battery life is now common in laptops, for instance, and that's been relatively recent.

Maybe, but that hardware was lukewarm garbage by modern standards. It's only been lately that RPi, N100 and fanless miniPCs from China have been viable for everyday use. Not "creator" stuff, just reasonably performant browser sorts of things. BT to the mouse/keyboard solves a lot, too.

Now, why we can't get "CPU in Steam Deck for portable use + docking station to enable video card and three monitors" figured, I don't know.

I don't care for 8 episode seasons either (ffs, Squid Game...), but entire 20 episode seasons of brilliance are rare. Clip shows, episodes that don't go anywhere (X-Files...), and that's before we get to the really awful sitcom stuff.

Free OTA CoziTV runs episodes of Alice and Facts of Life, multi-season shows which wouldn't make it past the first pitch today. YMMV, but I wouldn't impose full seasons of The Nanny on my worst enemy... ... and so on.

While I welcome our cheaper but slower SSD overlords, isn't the storage the price driver?

Would 4TB of NAND (or whatever) care what you wrap around it?

Now THAT's an externality.

There was a decent "History of AOL" book a while back, which indicated that once AOL started accepting partners into their walled garden, those partners were generally able to IPO on that fact alone.

Hence, AOL didn't care about the companies they merged with, so long as they got their cut of the IPO. Also, post-IPO, they didn't care what happened to the company, because the quick/easy money had been made.

So you're right, but one can tease out SOME logic, anyway.

Something like:

"I promised $MassiveClient a telepathic interface by Tuesday. Bob, you mentioned that a while back, how's it going?"

... to raise your kids up, that is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

All the Zappa fans aged out, probabaly.

"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway."

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/...

Hate to say it, but if they can stay centralized, MLB might be onto something. Cite below, NBA 2025-6 regular season nationally televised games carried by:

Sunday: NBC, ESPN
Mondays: Peacock
Tuesdays: NBC
Wednesday: ESPN
Thursday: Amazon
Friday: Amazon, ESPN
Saturday: ABC, Amazon

Not sure about regional networks, but that'll probably mean adding Season's Pass through the NBA. Getting absurd.
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https://www.si.com/nba/new-tv-...

You think they didn't workshop / simulate both sides?

The monte carlo analysis practically writes itself, so will be left as an exercise for the reader.