I love how everyone is debating “Sells that information to companies”, but no one’s talking about “knows everything you do”.

If you wanna court the laptop oem market, windows is the safer bet.

Depending on how in-depth they co-operated with the windows for arm team, keeping some details confidential till launch might have also been easier that way.

Yeah, but the article itself uses a downsized version of the image. Actually being able to see a lot more detail when opening the full size one is nice.

Torx till I die.

Reuters has something like that too, called Reuters Plus. It’s less blatant, and isn’t pushed in with their proper content, but I find paid articles by purportedly quality outlets extremely questionable in anyway.

Like that song, but my first association with ashes to ashes will always be Bowie.

You can mount the efi partition, but I don’t think you can usually mount the uefi or bios. I’ve only ever edited vbios, and haven’t done so in quite some time, but I remember needing to clamp the vbios chip. Dunno if motherboards make their bios chips more accessible, but I kinda doubt it.

Some motherboard support starting bios/uefi updates from a booted OS, so there might be a vector to be found there.

That’s an angry looking Blåhaj.

Perform better is pretty relative. My Pi 4 running home assistant is super responsive, while also using little power and being completely silent, but it only runs a network of zigbee lights and sensors, controlled by zigbee switches.

I agree that more power is necessary for any local voice applications, but depending on the use case, the pi probably isn’t worse than the alternatives.

OwnCloud has been acquired by KiteWorks a few months ago. Doesn’t have to mean anything, but makes me feel cautious about it’s future.

I mean, as long as you are the one prompting ChatGPT, you can probably get it to spit out the right recommendations. Works until they fire you because they are convinced AI made you obsolete.

It’s better value anyway. Only got the X because it had a rebate while the standard didn’t.

I mean, communist doesn’t have to mean tankie.

I have a 3600X and haven’t had any problems under Linux.

Wouldn’t providing the circumventing measure themselves potentially open them up to be fucked by the states with the bans? Pun kinda intended.

Hmh, didn’t see the community this was in. Yeah, I guess that makes sense.

It doesn’t necessarily need to be a ThinkPad either. Any used good quality business laptop should do the trick. My grandmother recently got an used EliteBook, and it’s working quite well for her. I’d look for mid- to high-end models, with parts that aren’t soldered - you should be able to find that out on the data sheet for the model in question.

Any i5/R5 and up in a machine that isn’t too old should handle pretty much everything most people expect from a laptop - for me that is running a browser, a Latex editor, a notes app, and an IDE, for the most part.

I’d reccomend Linux, but that might be based more on my personal convictions, and a machine like that should also be able to run current Windows with no problems.

I got a used ThinkPad for that price a year ago. Needed a laptop, and was a broke student. Really repairable - it’s easy to take apart, not glued, and most parts seem to be available at Aliexpress for reasonable prices. It’s still doing it’s job, and even though I could afford upgrading it now, I don’t really see a reason to.

The last time I had a look at the market for new laptops, most things 300€ (which should be close enough to $300) would buy you where, judging by the components, bound to be painfully slow. If it really needs to be new, I’d look for stores that have discounts, and look up the model on iFixit or a simmilar resource to check how repairable it is.

More reliable notifications? That’s my reason, at least.