Well for me, if I see an AI looking pull request, I will just nope out of it saying it needs a deeper write up to guide a review. If they do manage to coherently put something together that is consistent and sensible with the code, then and only then will I expend time looking at non-trivial pull request. If I see further sloppy mistakes or unmantainable code, then I'll again abort and say I did a partial review and already see some problems.

Pretty much have to get used to ignoring suspiciously big merge requests.

So far, if it's a significant AI generated merge request, it's not been worth salvaging.

Of course either way, people are less likely to buy their products. If for no other reason than that the same screen you bought 10 years ago is still pretty good, if you paid a decent amount for a high end set.

I suppose upgrading a low end set makes sense, but then what, with the backlights on LCDs being quite dynamic now....

You forget when they famously released Lego Technic with electric motors and immediately and forever stopped making traditional bricks.... oh wait...

But to their point, that GB40 has the capacity of power banks that are under $20.

It can do the job, and it isn't big, but it's kind of low capacity for the price as far as power banks go. It's worth it to me to have the jump starter capability, but if I wanted exclusively a power bank, then the jump starter ones aren't going to be high on my list.

Yes, they are priced higher, but they aren't really significantly heavier or bigger. Some keep the 'jump starter' components as a plug-in to basically make the main unit nothing more than a battery bank with a special extra connector, and those components are not exactly big anyway.

They are saynig 70% more on top of the existing increases, so that $100 of RAM would be $680

Also for these open ended predictions, 'insider knowledge' is supremely likely to get gamed...

If you have orders to get ready to strike a country, well then you can turn that knowledge around pretty easily...

It's hard enough to contend with insider knowledge in more regulated contexts, it's just utterly impossible in these sorts of offerings.

Note I'm running it under Fedora, not Windows.

Frankly, in that scenario, I'd want my phone to be that system. Unfortunately, all the phone vendors that tried royally sucked at providing decent window management/desktop shell with zero ability to run alternative desktop shells.

Unfortunately, Android is at the behest of Google who just can't make a decent desktop shell to save their lives and also won't use an external one. I'll begrudingly say that Windows might have done an "ok" job, if they had gotten Windows 10 done earlier, though still not my favorite, better than the Android/Chrome desktop management I've used.

Guess PinePhone should be up my alley, but it seems to kind of suck at being a cell phone, and while I might like my cell phone to be a viable stand in for a laptop, if I have to carry a 'non-cellular' device anyway, guess a laptop still makes sense...

Well, I did say exactly that in my conclusion, that it's not that LibreOffice writer/impress are incapable, just different and realistically I *have* to work with people who know only Microsoft Office stuff.

If I was in an org that was LibreOffice-centric, that would be fantastic and I wouldn't use Office. However the practical fact is that when I deal with my own company and 99% of customers, they want to speak in Microsoft products. On the wild occasion that someone sends me an odp file, I'll gleefully fire up LibreOffice to work with it. Which means I need both Office (err... Copilot now I guess...) and LibreOffice.

It may not be reasonably fair that LibreOffice is stuck trying to be compatible without cooperation from Microsoft, but it is the practical reality.

I don't know that there is a 'good' HP anymore...

It works for the company looking to fit as many bodies in as little area as possible.

I'm just waiting for some tech company to pitch upgraded stacked mortuary cabinets as the next level of 'collaboratve workspace'

I suppose the key point would have to be some price advantage for not including a display, touchpad, hinge, and a smaller battery than usual laptop. I'm skeptical, especially now where RAM costs likely make the rest of all of that a rounding error....

I suppose one *could* argue that use with an external monitor would be less awkward. Using a PC with external monitor as your focus can be pretty weird, and generally it's easier to have a separate keyboard which is more desk space.

However a tiny PC mounted between the monitor and a VESA mounting setup seems to be a better choice for the environments imagined. Sure the keyboard is more portable, but by requiring external display and mouse the flexibility is limited anyway. People break their keyboards all the time, and it's nice for those call center like environments to keep the key important piece well away from the users hands and drinks. Cheap keyboards and mice, and keep the system well off the table.

Yeah, I'd like to, except:
- Impress tends to totally flub the presentations I work on
- For some reason, Calc is tortuously slow at simple things like scrolling some of the data I have, and it's not even a lot of data, and nothing so much as formulas to explain why it would be slow
- Writer flubs document formatting, though not as severely as Impress

For Impress and Writer issues, it's probably fine in and of themselves if everyone else used it instead of Microsoft software since it's more disagreement on formatting rather than capability, but I have to work with other people. The calc performance issue makes it just unusable at all for me.

This disproportionately impacts Linux users, actually. It's not *huge*, but in Windows, I think the experience for now is largely the same, you open up the desktop app of your choice, regardless of stupid name, browse the files through explorer even if in onedrive.

For Linux users that need to use Office apps, you use the web versions, which are generally adequate for most tasks. Now instead of getting a document oriented view to work with your files and files shared with you, you get, by default a big old chat prompt. Further, that chat prompt isn't even particularly hooked into your files, so it can only operate about the same as any other chat agent, where you have to manually otherwise find your file, 'attach it' directly and ask questions about it.

Now you can either click through to the 'Search' or an app directly to get back to a workable interface, but the AI-first landing page replaces your entry into the web version.