Fifrok

The 9800X3D is a desktop chip, so I don't think it's relevant here. We are talking about a complete mobile device after all, not parts.

In my country, for around 800$ equivalent, you can buy a used business laptop with long battery life and enoguh performance for web browsing, video playback, and office work. The cheapest macbook neo I found in my country is also around that price (820$), and the better configuration is about 900$.

For the lower price, I could get:

• a thinkpad t480 with multiple batteries (hot swappable) and 32GB SO-DIMM RAM
• a latitude 7420 with 11th gen intel with 32GB soldered RAM, a ultraportable like the neo
• a thinkpad t14 gen 2 with 11th gen intel or ryzen 5000 and 48GB RAM (one SO-DIMM slot, and one soldered module)
• or if the size format didn't matter a thinkpad p52 with 64GB RAM and a 90Wh swappable battery If I went with the higher-spec price, I could get a thinkpad p53 with a quadro RTX 4000 and 32 GB RAM, 512 GB ssd, and a Pantone-calibrated display.

All of them have more ports the the neo, use standard SSDs, and don't come from a company that is one of the most hostile to consumer rights and right to repair .

One of the few, I take it?

One of many. What I meant (and should have said, instead of being vague) is that I don’t expect this to be a real shift in policy, but rather a way to maintain profits when people have less disposable income, and I fully expect Apple to keep lobbing against right to repair, even when releasing 'repairable' devices.

No? Where did you get that from? There's an 'a' there not 'the'

I don't get the hype from tech bros for the 'neo'. It's a laptop powered by a phone chip sold for the price of a laptop with a decent dGPU.

Apple selling a 'repairable' and low-end device just looks like a recession indicator to me.

I thought that installing macOS on a PC not manufactured by Apple has always been difficult by design (even before the shift to ARM), how is this not a walled garden strategy?

just use curl

I think the yellowish part is just a shadow from something, because the 'remove screws' stickers on the sides also change color

To be fair, this still might be true. Font files are treated the same as regular software and follow copyright.

Point 2 and 3: If I already "leak" (should be: get my activities monitored and collected btw), then surely the most beneficial legal standard for the people (if one meant it as a safeguard again fascism) would be a ban on collecting any private information without explicit, affermative, expiring and unprompted consent?

This technology has zero potential for fascist abuse.

This is not "technology", this is a law being enforced on technology. All laws can get used by politicians to push their ideologies, there isn't a single regulation that can't be used to push some agenda.

Point 5

There are already tools that allow parents to limit their childrens autonomy. It is the responsibility of the parent to make sure their child is safe, if somebody can't guarantee that, they shouldn't be one.

Shovel salesman tells goldminer his shovel is the best for gold digging

The entire text on the website has common LLM patterns, so does the linked githubs repos readme file. The website itself also looks very similar to other vibecoded UIs I've seen.

I'm not saying this is definetly slop, but I wouldn't trust this to be properly maintained either way.

Second this, hibernation and suspend could use some work.

All my thinkpads seem to have a problem with built-in I/O after waking. Sometimes it can get rather weird, like the buttons above the trackpad stop working but the ones in the trackpad work.

Or you could use google drive