Couldn't find actual details on *which* models they looked at.

If you look at the non-ThinkPad Lenovo laptops... They are complete shit for repairability.

The ThinkPads on the other hand tend to be very very good.

But other issues make me wonder about their competency in writing the report. Notably they give Lenovo a "lobbying penalty" for being a member of a group that fights right to repair but gives Motorola a pass for not being in those groups.... Lenovo and Motorola are the same company, and they don't seem to realize that.

I don't think I've attempted to repair a laptop in 20 years. Few laptops these days are very serviceable. They are also sufficiently reliable that it's pretty rare for anything to break unless they are physically dropped.

How to take many words to say you don't get it without saying you don't get it.

You would appear to hate the USA - no problem. Tell me who should replace us, to enter a new world of conflict free, eternal peace.

You do know that that would be the first time in the history of humanity, that situation would exist. The USA is not an angel, I don't agree with the present action at all - you apparently believe the conflict free model, where all are happy, and no predominant country is out there, all that needs to happen is to eliminate the USA

Your turn to pick what country that would be.

1. Propagandize on teh intarwebs to get the useful idiots baying in the wrong direction. Including demonizing the wrong 1%.
2. Collect kompromat to control politicians. If none is available, have a program to create some. (RELEASE THE EPSTIEN FILES.)
3. Assymetric warfare, use swarms of cheap drones s while the enemy uses 1 million dollar missiles to try to stop them.
4. sabotage, particularly cyber and ecoonomic .
5. Don't be a blundering loudmouth. Diplomacy has a much greater ROI. Needing to blow things up is a failure.
0. Make sure you've got people on the inside working in your interests instead of those of their own nation.

So you would not defend yourself?

You have an interesting approach. It is the warfare version of telling a depressed person "Don't be depressed, you idiot" And thinking you magically cured their depression.

The problem is, simply telling a person they are an idiot because they have an understanding of human nature isn't necessarily an intelligent statement.

Humans have been violent creatures since the start. And humans apparently gain something out of killing other humans, or we wouldn't have done it continuously as we evolved.

It is in our genetics. Intrinsically linked with your survival instincts.

And at this point, we need to accept it, and work to throttle it back, because we are at a point where our tendency to kill other humans can end up ending all of humanity

But it takes recognition of that first part that we are working against our nature. The best way IMO is working to end seeing different groups, countries, and so called "races" as the other is the first step.

The DOJ says it only patched affected devices within the USA. Once modified, the device has become a part of a criminal enterprise, so there's probably a law somewhere in the US allowing the court's authorization.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr...

I use side tabs because I'm trying to maximize horizontal space on a wide laptop screen. The widescreen standard leaves a lot of unused space on the edges. I could zoom browser text to go edge-to-edge, but then it's unnaturally large font and I get only a few lines of reading before I have to scroll. Making text/docs/webpages fill the center 2/3 of the screen is comfortable for me, leaving the outer 1/6th on each edge perfect spots for tabs.

Looks like the ADE 651 got a quantum upgrade.


Kind of like how in WWII the allies promoted the idea that carrots help with your night vision to obfuscate the fact that they had RADAR to explain away how their night fighters kept shooting down German planes. Even Bugs Bunny played his patriotic part for the war effort.

We should all be completely peaceful and non-violent toward all others.

Problem is, until our genetics are all altered to remove all of the violent tendencies, yet none of the survival instincts, humans won't do that.

Humans by and large, are not all that nice. We should be nice, but we aren't.

The multi-km range seems a stretch, but quantum magnetometers based on Nitrogen-Vacancy defects in diamond is a real technology.

https://www.photonics.com/Arti...
  https://www.ll.mit.edu/r-d/pro...
  https://www.nist.gov/programs-...
  https://academic.oup.com/nsr/a...
  https://pubs.aip.org/aip/apl/a...

Yeah, I mean we here in teh US are hardly angels, and at present one might not be off base to question the competence of the present crew, but for me, history shows the world could do a whole lot worse.

Because I would fix the problems. Because I was capable of fixing the problems. There was no question that women were given preferential treatment in hiring. The goal was at least 50/50 mix. At one point in my department, I was the only male.

Problem was that sex/gender was now the most important qualification. Meritocracy was considered bad. And yes, I'm damn good at what I do. Technical problems are solved by ability, not sex. And they do need solved.

So we had a bifurcated system with a bifurcated problem. I was by far, the most competent person. I was by far the most socially adept, and I became what you might call an adjunct directorate member. It was a situation that developed over time.

And the others? They knew they were not likely to be terminated because they were checkbox people, so the things they didn't want to do got shifted to me. I would travel, do dirty work, work with the directorate, come in early, stay late, and not for nothing, I had the social skills, enough to be blunt without making a mess. Also not for nothing, I'm a pattern weaver.

They took lots of smoke breaks, hour and a half lunches, and left at 4:30, and shifted anything too hard to me. So there is part of why I'd get troubleshooting calls while on vacation.

And when the downturns happened, and they always do, I survived.

So yes, there was a systemic problem where I worked. Gender politics shaped my department (and others) Meritocracy was devalued.

But I take it that you do know that was/is the gestalt of the university environment, don't you?

It isn't that there are not highly competent women out there. Two of the most competent workers I ever worked with are women, I've worked with many top notch woman scientists and engineers. Two of my favorite people to work under were women.

They are top notch because of their minds, not their genitals. And when you hire based on genitals, you don't often get top notch.

What's the laptop distinction? These days countless people use laptops with docking stations or external screens for complex professional work.

As for the activity of designing FPGAs, that's not a very intensive task. An entry level consumer laptop can trivially do the task. That doesn't change the fact that the underlying database for these tools are massive.

Don't be such a gatekeeper and maybe look at what people who are not you do with their computers.

Who said Macbook Neo? Read the question: "What are you doing on a desktop machine that uses 256gb?"

But even something as simple as Photoshop consumes a shitton of space these days, especially a scratch drive can quickly consume upwards of 100GB if you use generative fill liberally.

Test show you can maintain Xbox series X framerates on Cyberpunk 2077. You're very quick to judge what people may or may not use something for.

Also no one said "Macbook Neo". The question was "What are you doing on a desktop machine that uses 256gb?"