Ok, my ports break out of use, have had pretty bad luck with USB-C charging ports on the thinkpads… Never been dropped but they just stop working… Then if out of warranty I start using another USB-c port… then that breaks…

Seeing a modular USB-c port is just absolutely fantastic…

I’m skeptical they will bother with the Razr, seems like a lot of work to intelligently use that external screen and Graphene probably doesn’t have the interest to do that. Would be happy to be proven wrong.

Motorola was kind of sluggish/selective about those, but they seem to pretty consistently have those features now. Always worth double checking.

I grant that Motorola may neglect to go top of the line (e.g. there’s no ‘flagship grade’ non-folding phone on offer right now), but price wise, at least in the US, it seems to be in line with other options and the cheaper options are generally motorola.

Is this US or elsewhere? What are the better value competition in the mid-lower range.

I think the lens of “conservative” versus “liberal” is a fairly narrow and contextual one in general anyway… It’s ‘good enough’ in American politics but even then…

The modularity might be considered almost a gimmick of recessed USB-C accessories, so I would personally be happy with a device that leaves that outside the core chassis, so long as the chassis ports are at least as modular as this ThinkPad concept. No idea if those big empty areas are a serious liability structurally or not…

Even among shitty laptops, it’s always been keyboard, screen, or charging port as the things that break, not sure structural support matters too much on those fronts. I have had boards fail, but not due to physical events.

Note that ThinkPad and IdeaPad are practically different companies with how Lenovo acts.

Fully expect IdeaPads to continue to be shit. ThinkPad can do the most wondrous good stuff in the world and IdeaPad will stay garbage.

And yes, I went through the same exact maddeningly shitty keyboard replacement procedure. Never again IdeaPad, though ThinkPad has been fine.

Bonus points, ThinkPad brand never shipped Superfish, and most of the firmware security flaws have been IdeaPad side. It’s amazing how half-assed they are with that brand yet pretty competent with ThinkPad.

Well, good…

Though reparability is a good part of it, another would be a concrete commitment that the form factor of various things will be consistent generation to generation, that Gen 8 boards will fit into a current laptop.

Ah, ok. I do wonder if at least the general divide between people opting to stay out of Tehran verus in the city is there with respect to being against or for the government. I could believe a bunch of people just want to make a living, but of those that support or reject the government, is there a divide between rural and urban?

Yes, but it’s still worth pointing out that the compromises run deeper than alternatives, including Apple’s own iPad Air.

Absolutely agree than phone socs can drive a viable experience, but it’s just still pricier even using iPad Air as a comparison.

Tab hoarding I would guess.

Good news: thanks to the AI Bros, PCs will probably have 8gb of ram and 256gb of nand too … isn’t progress grand?

Even without free elections, you are going to have that same dynamic present.

they can find logical mistakes quickly

I just had a lovely afternoon of trying to unwind a mess someone vibe coded their way into with Opus 4.6… Which I have to mention model and version every time or else someone comes along and says ‘Well Opus 4.6 won’t make mistakes!’ when it absolutely does and I’m so tired of people overstating how good Opus is.

So far they create the mistakes quickly and when it happens they generally are at a loss on what to do, and it becomes messy because the vibe coder went way past the point of failure and now I have to extricate what the hell they were doing…

Though I will say today the ‘review my commit’ feature did catch one issue legitimately, though it flagged about 5 others erroneously and in a couple of cases really really wanted to change correct code to do exactly the wrong thing for some reason.

The codegen can be useful if watched carefully, but things will happen like after porting dozens of functions mostly fine to a replacement library, for some reason it decided to delete a function and replace it with an if/else chain of every test case and hard code passing results rather than porting the function to the new library (which upon manual inspection was just a two line change)…

How about the 2026 primaries right now?

Yes, not great that the presidential primaries were effectively skipped, but people need to participate in a broad set of elections instead of just being fixated on the presidential race.

Your smaller races are the best shot to shape everything. If folks only bother to show up when a president is up, can’t be shocked that the establishment isn’t in touch with you.

Of course the sp500 is down a bit YTD, which is pretty bad by the standards of the last couple of decades. Two months of a mostly stagnant SP500 is a bad sign

Pretty much absolutely this. Seeing the rationalizations day to day that just dont make sense should undermine the explanations, but instead people just latch on the the ones that agree with them…

There got to be better examples than that. Walmart manages about 4% margin, so 653 billion went toward procuring the stuff for sale. That figure suggests a tax rate of 25%, which is low at that magnitude but not as dramatically low as other companies pull off.

I don’t know if Hegseth would be inclined to do this, but I could imagine there being a subculture among some commanders that would manifest this way.

They wouldn’t be interested in penalizing the ‘right’ people, they would be more interested in maximizing damage… Which means the blue areas will likely bear most of the fallout.