> decent build materials (ive got a thinpad and the platic build is just terrible. The screen bends when pulling it to open the laptop).
Thinkpads don't show off their build materials like Apple does. I've had several over the years, variously made of magnesium alloy and carbon fibre.
Screen bending is not a great metric of 'decent build'. My Thinkpads have suffered people stepping on them, being dropped etc, and I think the lid flexibility is partly why it has survived all this time - they often use carbon fibre on the back of the screen.
Unless I'm reading the numbers wrong, we're having a bigger issues here in the UK[1], with 2091 cases in 2024, though that dropped to more than half last year. We have already lost our measles elimination status.
Until recently, antivax was largely a liberal form of anti-intellectualism. It was a reaction against large pharmaceutical companies.
It didn't really become a conservative position until COVID. It's mostly an anti-progressive thing, but builds on existing populist conservative anti-science attitudes. (Conservative doesn't always mean anti-science, but populist versions of it will inevitably tend that way.)
The problem is calling it anti-intellectualism implies that one can be conservative in "right" ways. And in modern times, being conservative in "right" ways means you are basically a liberal.
The whole idea of conservatism is that certain people in a population are going to have "non desirable" qualities, and the best thing would be if those people just "went away", but realistically you can't advocate for that, so you have to do mental gymnastics and say "those people should just work to become better, or get punished".
But more importantly, we need an alternative to two big tech companies who are cranking the enshittification dial right up while also remaining under a particular country's laws.
I guess this is a descendent of my 16 year old Nokia N900, and probably the best phone I had. It ran the Maemo operating system, and its UI was a forerunner to a lot of what is current. It also had a built in, full, terminal.
I understand that people are fed up of it running on their operating system (and perceived poor performance of Windows 11), but yes, google/duckduckgo are all running LLM queries with every search.
I have to use Windows 11 at work, it can literally take half a minute before a Win key, then, say, "ou" will find the program Outlook*.
* I was also completely unable to find a keyboard shortcut for New Outlook to filter by 'Unread' without performing a search and respecting the inbox search order etc.. Turns out the filter button just above the inbox is a React component and it can't be called from the Alt - key shortcut.
Well, i also would rather use Windows 11 than ubuntu. (I probably would also rather pay for Windows than ubuntu)
Every time i tried to use ubuntu it was the worst OS/Linux experience i ever had. A friend wanted to try linux once, picked ubuntu because its a "noob friendly" distro, and i had a "critical system error" pop up before even booting up once.
And this is by far the most stable experience i had with ubuntu.
Also ubuntu is ugly and slow (In my experience, In my opinion).
Given how well windows games now run on linux through proton, it just made me think - surely, Outlook/Word etc should run easily?
That would be strange firing up Word from Steam though.
Companies seem completely dependent on the Word/Outlook ecosystem. I hope this will change in the future, and not just for some other US tech oligopoly.
Which is crazy because Outlook the actual application has got to be one of the worst email clients in existence. The only email client that I've dealt with that had more problems was the one guy who insisted on still using pine.
Thinkpads don't show off their build materials like Apple does. I've had several over the years, variously made of magnesium alloy and carbon fibre.
Screen bending is not a great metric of 'decent build'. My Thinkpads have suffered people stepping on them, being dropped etc, and I think the lid flexibility is partly why it has survived all this time - they often use carbon fibre on the back of the screen.