Fair enough, it's just not for me. When I want a touch screen I have a tablet for a larger screen, or my phone for a smaller screen.

Not *EVERYTHING* is a conspiracy. Especially when the proposed conspiracy is stupid and doesn't reflect the reality of the timeline. Just because some wealthy person somewhere came up with one idea, doesn't mean everything was come up by some secret wealthy private club goers.

Let me be clear, at this point I am calling you silly on my own accord, I do not have Trump and Musk standing next to me pointing out how silly your comment is in the context.

When *everything* is a conspiracy theory to you, it's time to consult with a mental health professional.

Nano is useless bloatware. RAM costs a lot these days, use Pico instead.

(Note: Yes this is sarcasm, I know the relationship between them).

Congrats. On the other hand I do it all the time. Not just is it quick for navigation where diverse UI elements appear in different areas of the screen, most devices contain in-built digitisers to work with a pen, as you said drawing is a use case.

Agreed. Whenever you take one input form and shoehorn it into another not designed for it sucks. Don't touch your screen to type. Touch your screen to draw, drag or provide singular location based inputs.

Productivity and quality are not mutually exclusive terms, especially if you work in QA/QC.

I get that argument, which is why I have a tablet when I need a larger screen. I don't use my tablet very frequently, I just checked, this week I've used it for 1-minute, and that was to check how long I've used it this week. It's great when I require a large touch screen for something, but that happens so infrequently that it really re-enforces my belief I don't need one. My current XPS has a touch screen, I turned off the touch screen setting, in the UEFI the day I got it, and have never thought about turning it back on.

That idiotic notebook with two screens, my boss at the time, ~10 years ago, used to use the touch screen virtual keyboard. I don't get it, I will never get it, it was horrible to type on. There was no feedback, and it was like taping your fingers on glass, that was slippery. There was a Blackberry back in the day, I think the “Storm” that had feedback when you typed using its virtual keyboard, and I think that was my favourite implementation of a touch screen, mainly because of the feedback.

I'm picky when it comes to keyboards. My favourite keyboard of all time was an old Cherry MxGreen keyboard, that had heavy calibrated switches, the kind where almost every mm is accounted for. I like hearing the click, feeling the tactile response, and knowing when my key is actuated. I know that's not for everyone, and it can bother people in an office, but there is something about a great keyboard that really allows me to feel the input, and I know that sounds weird.

Conditions that happen with a wear-out can still happen early without. It's possible this flaw will show up more in real-world use as the device ages that didn't show up in lab conditions. For insurance, nobody is going to open and close that hinge in the same way, every single time, and they can close it in ways apple didn't test for. Hence the apple saying "you're bending it wrong" followed by Steve Jobs demonstrating, in front of a live audience, different failure modes of different devices that have nothing to do with neither apple nor the underlying problem.

Cheese...This whole time I literally thought token maxing meant getting the most bang for your tokens. No joke. I never bothered reading anything about it because nothing about my job ever said "use no more than x tokens" and nobody ever said I was using too many. The work objectives have always been the deliverable, not how we delivered it. The only restriction we have is the obvious: Sandbox it, and don't just give it everything.

It's supposed to be a benefit: better competitors that aren't governed by shiny-object leadership are supposed to take advantage and punish such clowns. That's the real cost of centralization, IP law and regulatory balkanization: the clowns rely on these to insulate themselves from the wolves that would otherwise end them.

I agree :)

Makes me think of the "bad faith" trope we see with some frequency from certain folks.

Recently some blowhard Reddit mod(s) went ham on AI in open source, and essentially outlawed discussion of any open source projects that are not purely organic from their little Reddit sandbox. When it was pointed out that this is pretty unworkable since significant open source projects, including Linux, Mesa and others are allowing AI generated code, they backed up. And that's all fine I suppose, except they characterized the response to their stupidity as deliberate "bad faith" misunderstanding of their original announcement. It wasn't that at all; it was exactly what you should expect when get all chesty with the world and can't handle the blowback, but they've adopted the cop-out of calling these self-inflicted episodes as some sort of "bad faith."

I see this often enough now that anytime I see someone claiming "bad faith" I assume I'm dealing with another nasty little shit-bird trying to cry-bully their way.

This is not a remark about what editor is best, or a flame war statement. I have never been able to figure out EMACS, and I honestly don't see the draw, or what other people see in it. I know people who use it, who can basically do their entire workday in it, but I can't understand the draw. It's powerful, its feature set approaches the insane, and just saying EMACS, can make you think of Unix or Linux, but, I don't get it.

I can't think of a single time I have ever wanted a touch screen on a notebook, or desktop computer. There is a use for touch devices, like drawing tablets, pen inputs, and the like, but who wants to touch their screen? Does anyone actually have a use case for a touch screen, that can't be better served with a device that prevents it?

I'm sure there are good uses for them, I just can't think of one. There was an idiotic notebook that had two screens, and one was a touch screen, so you could use a virtual keyboard, that thing SUCKED! One of my old bosses loved it, and bought a bunch of them, but you had to plug a keyboard in to have any chance of using it.

I'm not talking about tablets, or phones, or other IoT style devices where a touch screen is very sensible.