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I have one with the RK3588 (32GB RAM version), and while it is CERTAINLY not competitive on price/performance, it’s been entirely serviceable for the last year, and I really enjoy it. The trackball is a bit annoying, but not game breaking. I think I found where the issue lies in their firmware, but haven’t had the time or energy to try to fix it. For some reason the polling rate on the trackball movement during scrolling is low enough that it doesn’t register if you move really slowly or only move a little bit, which ends up feeling a bit clunky, but it’s still better than most mice. The boot process takes ~10 seconds for me, but I’m loading NixOS with /boot on an SD card and I have LUKS encryption on my SSD.

there are alternative enclosures that people have made. for example: https://www.printables.com/model/1484908-ploopy-mouse-skinny-mod-wo-thumb-rest

I check every 6 months or so to see if there is something coming out that would be a worthwhile upgrade for either, and I’ve been surprised that even the 9800X3D isn’t that much better than the 5800X3D, and would be bottle-necked by the GPU in the vast majority of games, and that there simply hasn’t been a single (non-Nvidia) GPU announced that is clear step up from the 7900XTX.

I dunno about <1% exactly, but I’m for sure a minority, and that is definitely why it’s hard to find stuff. I regularly have conversations in real life where people ask me why I don’t just have a cheap used bike (given my hobbies and political beliefs, it makes sense on some level to ask) and I think I’m just salty after having to explain to people repeatedly that, no, I’m not a fancy-bike guy, I spent the least that I could.

Also, while cheap bikes are a great resource for working class people who fit them, like MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world and their need for an expensive bike to fit their disability, I think it’s important to remind people about accessibility and that there are some of us that cannot access these resources. This is not to say that I think OP was being specifically discriminatory, only that if we don’t speak up often about how society does not all bodies into account, people will tend to not think about it in general.

5800X3D and 7900XTX and have seen no compelling reason to upgrade.

I spent over a year looking for a cheap used bike that would fit my 6’4" frame, and finally spent $700 on the cheapest new road bike I could possibly get. I wanted a $50 bike.

I think there are 3 reasonable options (that I’m pursuing currently):

Linux on a phone designed for Android

I’ve tried a few different models of phone. I’m currently running mobile nixos on a OnePlus 6, but waiting on Plasma Mobile to be fully functional. When I last played with it a couple months ago, the virtual keyboard was broken. Nothing else I’ve tried has had all features on the phone work.

A small Linux laptop with a mobile network card

I am trying to set up an MNT Pocket Reform as a phone replacement. The hardware is almost there. The software and firmware have a bit of a ways to go, but it has promise for a subset of people.

A Linux-first phone-like device

There are some phones that are set up with PostmarketOS or other mobile Linux distributions from the manufacturer, but they right now tend to be really pricey, under-performing, and don’t really have upstream support. The Mecha Comet seems to be another interesting option. I’ve pre-ordered one and I’m excited to see what it’s capable of.

The thing that kept me using Google Keep for a long time, and that there still is no good replacement for, was live collaborative notes editor with a mobile UI and a repository of owned/shared notes.

EDIT: I would love whoever downvoted to post a tool that can do that. I really want to be wrong here.

I don’t know if you meant to, but you completely ignored the point. Your comment directly quoted @Dirk@lemmy.ml and edited out “OS” and “browser”. You then began talking about how “services” have an obligation.

EDIT: I jumbled usernames. My bad.

At its core, neither an operating system nor a browser is a service. They are effectively data that the users are serving to themselves. There are certainly some operating systems and browsers that contain the ability to connect a service as a plugin or (I would say) maliciously include a connection to a service by default such as targeted advertising, but those services are neither the OS nor the browser.

fft had so many good takes

You don’t have to do that right now. I got a used Pixel 8a that will have support until May 2031 for less than $200 from Craigslist and it works great.

nearly a century of coordinated, targeted anti-union operations by corporations and the federal government will do that.

That was awesome

Only people who are okay with being monsters are allowed to take and keep those roles. That’s capitalism, baby.

I think you answered your own question. To expect them to do anything other than what will increase their wealth is naïve. Anything that seemed like a “moral” thing that they did in the past simply happened to be more convenient.

Talked to one of the founders a bit over a year ago and he essentially said that it’s about having something you can present to co-workers and bosses as a way to start using nix that isn’t painful to get up and running for people who aren’t already in the nix world. At the time, their hub didn’t have a good privacy policy and they didn’t have answes as to why or when it would change, so I stopped paying attention to them. No clue what it’s like now.

They can be “rattled”, but if this cross-pressure isn’t enough for them to reject the entire Republican Party and any Democrat that still wants ICE around, it doesn’t matter. It’s far enough from November that the effects of this will have evaporated by the time they cast their votes, so I don’t have any confidence that electoral politics will fix this. I’m happy to be proven wrong.

An article about people leaving one capitalist entertainment platform designed to suck you dry of both time and money to go to another capitalist entertainment platform designed to suck you dry of both time and money that happens to be earlier along in the process, supported by quotes from people on a [checks notes] third capitalist entertainment platform designed to suck you dry of both time and money.

you can go crazier and use ansible or even just switch to NixOS if you want to have your entire system defined in configuration files. I use NixOS.