meh

only works as long as you don’t look at details

I didn’t buy anything from them, after they shut down some of my wii-games multiplayer-stuff right after I bought the discs new from a store

good for me, I guess?

nah, not a catastrophe

like a dozen crashs, a whole lot of ridiculous wasted energy and way too loud - but not a single catastrophe.

It’s as viable as tiny fixed wing planes for commuting. So really stupid. But it can be kinda safe-ish if done somewhat right (it won’t obviously, because it has to be "cheap"ish).

yeah, that secondary screen (Zenbook Duo) between keyboard and display was nice too - thought about buying that, but then I really had no use for a rather large notebook.

but that’s now some years old and nothing new came after it - so that’s one new concept against like a dozen from lenovo?

It’s somewhat funny how Lenovo seems to be the only company that currently tries to be actually innovating.

And it’s not even “trying really hard”, but just reintroducing ideas that were around previously.

But still! That thing and the dual-screen-thingy (with bluetooth-keyboard) are somewhat new and this is better than what other vendors do.

so… fat>ntfs?

that’s not how this works

tell me again… how old is ext2 now?

age of the initial version might not be the best metric

You will find new ones you like or you will watch less.

Both is fine and you will survive.

And if less people consume content on YouTube, less creators will upload their stuff ONLY there.

don’t think so

they might use that for more closed down “content” like special paid-for youtube videos or to “secure” some enterprise-google-apps-access.

And that’ll never be available on the very last client out there - that’s kinda important for things like web search. Google is really afraid of people starting to move away from google for that.

my current guess is: this problem will mostly fix itself

youtube-ads are ridiculous. I wouldn’t consume these as they are now. If I’m forced to use that site without sponsorblock and adblock, I’m tending to just never watching anything there.

So if NewPipe/Sponsorblock (and of course NewPipe+Sponsorblock) are gone, then I won’t use that shit anymore and don’t feel any pain.

Same as with reddit. The last weeks I visited when pointed to reddit by some search enigne, but not out of “I could browse it for fun”. I didn’t miss anything. Twitter? Not even trying to visit that shithole anymore, since most links are unreadable anyways.

If platforms are closing down, they will lose my interactions. More free time for me!

my current guess is: this problem will mostly fix itself

youtube-ads are ridiculous. I wouldn’t consume these as they are now. If I’m forced to use that site without sponsorblock and adblock, I’m tending to just never watching anything there.

So if NewPipe/Sponsorblock (and of course NewPipe+Sponsorblock) are gone, then I won’t use that shit anymore and don’t feel any pain.

Same as with reddit. The last weeks I visited when pointed to reddit by some search enigne, but not out of “I could browse it for fun”. I didn’t miss anything. Twitter? Not even trying to visit that shithole anymore, since most links are unreadable anyways.

If platforms are closing down, they will lose my interactions. More free time for me!

A company that has a long history of products literally catching fire/melting is not a company any reasonable person would call okayish.

do they though?

I mean all big companies have such cases - a bit more if they are cheap (and yes, asus mostly does cheap) - but mostly it’s “more products sold equals more fire”.

Just look at the tons of samsung fires! They even got some of their smartphones completely banned on flights. (btw: I’m not a fan of either)

well, I did buy a couple Asus products back in the days - all were in the “okayish” department (broad strokes okay, but some horrible descisions in the details)

that’s better than what you get from most cheap hardware vendors

you shouldn’t compare their consumer notebooks to the more expensive lines of business vendors (although those are now crap too)

And it’s not “Samsung bad” by far.

so then I’ll be finally able to buy a Ryzen NUC PN53? :D

the title already is about “improving kidnapping scam”

so yes, that “kidnapping scam” seems to be a thing

and scams generally work best if done low effort

fun fact: most of the time you don’t want to waste time on less-guilible people, so making your scam less obvious isn’t that usefull.

nice idea - but improbable

it’s much easier to take just about any girly voice and call hundreds of people instead of taking the time to make a single convincing call. Someone will “recognize” that voice.

It’s nice. For me.

I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone though. People who know how to handle the issues (i.e. how to replace the stock OS - it sucks, but /e/OS is okay) don’t need my recommendation.

For most people it’s just a pretty expensive mid-range-specced phone.