Technology

It was enough for yo mom ohhhhhhhh!

j/k

I haaaate typing on a laptop, layout not withstanding.

Docks are pretty great now.

I have a dock at home and at work. Single cable to plug in and get proper peripherals, 2 + 1 monitors, and power.

It's nice to be able to undock and go sit in a Cafe to read emails or do whatever you don't need full regalia for.

I can see this working on a smaller form factor.

If you have to carry a separate keyboard, it defeats the purpose of an 8" laptop...

Well, I carry a keyboard with my 17" laptop. Carrying a keyboard with a 8" laptop is that much easier.

ASUS still makes netbooks.

I bought a little $200 model a few years ago. It weighs 9 oz.

Yeah, my favourite ever laptop. Would love to see the netbook return. Cheap and cheerful. Chromebooks just not the same

I'm strongly hoping that the framework 12'' becomes widely successful so that the format keeps being relevant.

I appreciated it, since he didn't do a legit stress test. Running a local llm is intensive on the hardware, and if it performs well on that, it'll likely perform well on most standard, non-useless tasks. So, I see that part as a makeshift stress test.

Well, at least it's 1920x1200 resolution. The old 10" netbooks mostly had 1024x600 which was terrible even by standards from 15 years ago.

I've got this little tablet...you know how so many people turn an iPad into a crappy laptop by adding a keyboard cover to it? Well Lenovo turned a laptop into a crappy iPad by making the hinge a floppy skin flap with a magnetic pogo pin connector. I intended it as a little computer I can use in the wood shop, I wanted something fanless and preferably with a removable keyboard so it wouldn't be destroyed by sawdust that can run FreeCAD natively.

I'm not sure Linux is ready for tablets. FreeCAD is not ready for tablets or laptops, holy fuck it's unusable without a 5 button mouse and a spaceball. I may have to distro hop a little on the thing because it likes to wake up with the keyboard attached, not recognize the keyboard, and stay permanently in portrait mode. So wake up the computer, rip the keyboard off, wait a second, reattach.

It's kind of fuckpuke, tbh.

10 inch screen size isn't a problem though. For a general laptop I'd want to go 13 inches but for something I'm mostly going to use as a tablet and then occasionally as a laptop 10 will do.

14 here. Lenovo T-series life.

Well, you're in luck. The Piccolo N150 netbook is an 8in screen lol

Uses the calamares installer, comes with all neccessary tools and, above all, is the safest bet if you need all KDE components to work properly. Makes enough sense to me but I'm biased since it's my daily driver too 😅 It's my first distro where genuinely so far "everything just works". I've had a much better experience than with stuff like Mint or Pop or whatever else people usually recommend.

First, if you're on the go, do you need a computer with you?

That's kinda the point of laptops

Second, if you do, that's what a dedicated laptop bag is for.

Why should I have to carry a whole bag in order to have more compute power available than a phone? This is the same argument as "you already have a bag for your mobile phone battery if you want to carry it everywhere, but why would you do that?"

The answer to that is "because they can". You don't have to like it, but others do, so if you can't understand the potential applications, then it's clearly not for you.

Sometimes all I need a small compact SSH machine when I'm at a client's site. This is a perfect use case for it.

First, if you're on the go, do you need a computer with you?

Is that a real question? LOL

I have a 10" Chuwi Minibook X. It's basically my go to when I go to my kids activities. For me, it's a better alternative than a phone or my tablet. It's small when folded up and weighs very little. The luggability is surprisingly better than my Framework 13. Plus, I have a real keyboard instead of a touchscreen that is surprisingly much better than I expected . That's handy for when I do want to do something more productive. And since it only cost me about $300 or so, I'm much less worried about it getting damaged.

I wouldn't just carry it around with me randomly in public. But, I could if I wanted to. It's a shame there are so few options like it. One of my biggest factors I was looking for was weight and overall footprint.

but I imagine it would be hard to get Linux to work well with the surface - especially the touch screen.

There's a dedicated Linux kernel for Surface devices. Surfaces are your best bet for installing Linux out of any of the Windows tablets.

I had better than 20x20 vision when they gave us eye-tests in high school and I’ve often gotten, “Holy shit, you can read that from here?” I always chose screen space over font-size even on small laptops but I recently had to dial it back a notch for the first time. The optometrists come for us all, eventually.

My vision still seems fine but it takes longer to adjust and focus. Like I have a digital clock I used to glance at to check the time and now I have to squint for a few seconds and wait. It’s sort of like a phone camera auto-focus where it sorts things out but it used to be immediate.

we don't do things because we need to. we do things because we can.

playing doom on a iPod or Zune is completely awful. so why does it exist? because someone willed it into existence. why? because they could.

The devices you listed are either locked down, or are low powered devices themselves. None of them have a keyboard which is essential for linux.

I fucking hate touch screens personally, and will always prefer a good physical keyboard. Don't like mobile OSs either

It can play 20 separate instances of Doom 2.