contemplated getting one of these a while back opted for an m3-8100Y Surface Go 2 instead because they were far easier to find and much cheaper. Managed to find one for £70 with the keyboard. Nowhere near as powerful as the Minibook X but does the job for when I'm not carrying my Macbook Air around with me. If the Surface Go 4 had a 16gb RAM option I'd've jumped at it.
Have had a couple of Chuwi devices in the past, they're always a painful mix of really impressive with baffling cost cutting measures so I'm a bit wary of spending more than £50 on one.
Potentially worth looking into old Surface Go's; from what I know they run Linux fairly reliably now and can be gotten suprisingly cheaply (the Go 2 with m3-8100Y processor seemingly being the sweet point of often appearing on ebay for crazily low prices relative to the performance boost if has compared to older/weaker models)
Yet to set one up though so can't vouch 100% there.
I do often wonder with this kind of thing whether an unspoken aspect of it is about not depleting the country's fossil fuels
From what I understand Ireland has very little natural gas, very little coal and a not particularly large amount of peat. If they didn't shift towards importing all of that would be gone in the very near future.
It's a bit weird how it gets branded as a solely green move when there's clearly other motives for it.
In the case of wayback machine reliance it isn't AI really; that's due to the decline of sectors of the tech industry meaning loads of places are cutting back on hosting old stuff for very slight profit gains.
There's an argument the way AI is getting so much focus has resulted in a neglect of this kind of stuff after years/decades of it sticking around at mostly fairly low cost.
I'd say a bigger source of harm has been the endless iteration in agile practices meaning old stuff is treated as low priority because the business focus is always on adding new stuff. It's a lot harder to argue up the management chain that making something more stable will have longer term gains than A/B testing several new designs. The amount of sites that repeatedly destroyed their old content with a redesign is a bit absurd.
A LOT of websites feel like they could benefit from improving their fundamental experiences and it's been so long since that was a priority that it's virtually an impossibility to untangle it at this point.
I'm currently diving into some fairly fringe and very dead tech so my perspective is a bit skewed but I seem to be relying on the wayback machine an absolutely absurd amount lately.
Think a lot of the issue is the difficulty grasping what size the actual screen is. I get webpages on my 1080p monitor where everything is just far too big but I guess as far as the code is concerned it has limited knowledge of whether the physical size of the screen is 24" or 5"
I agree with him, but it also has to come with an acceptance that the things you care about will age and slip out of cultural relevance, even if they're just being replaced with largely similar things done from a modern sensibility.
Removing certain words from Roald Dahl works aren't going to shake off the outdated worlds they were built within. It's as much about trying to hide how old the material is as anything else. They seemed timeless to me as a kid but I was oblivious to the fact that some of them had been published within my lifetime so I was under the impression they were things that had been around forever.
Who is doing the revisions also makes a big difference; if it's about preserving some IP it'll either be the original authors (who are too directly tied to the source material to do anything interesting) or people who have a strict emotive of fiscal connection to the property (who will be applying updates for non artistic reasons and are therefore unlikely to provide any kind of interesting changes)
I dunno about fraud but it does occasionally have similarities to drug usage imo in that you can become aware of certain highs and then wind up endlessly chasing new levels of greatness.
I remember the first few albums I listened to on what I then considered HIGH quality headphones (Koss PortaPros and ATH-M50s) and it was mindblowing how much better some albums sounded, how much better they felt. It creates an itch that people with disposable income will want to scratch, then once you move into bluetooth you're adding all kinds of connection issues to consider too.
Is meetup deliberately a bit crappy and limited or something? The limitations of their search features continues to baffle me.
_something_ to allow a search for particular times of the day would be great, or the ability to zone in on a smaller area than "5 miles from London". If you want to browse further than My Meetups and Recommended you've to wade through so many 2 person attending afternoon meetups, it's incredibly easy to scroll into the next day and not realise... just all around terrible.
To me its more like closing the bar they hang out in, almost all of them will find other bars to go to instead almost immediately but it'll cause at least a temporary fracture and even when they all do find themselves back to the same place (asides from the ones who just got on with their lives), it'll take a while to build up the same kind of feedback loop.
Honestly, as a teen (over a decade ago now...), there were forums I was on that totally died due to a week or two of downtime, sometimes just breaking someone away from their familiar habits is enough to get them out of a bad routine.
The notion that we could reach them on 8chan is a bit idealistic, the only thing we're able to reach is the manifestos within seconds of the news breaking as far as I can see. If your goal is to _reach_ them, then do it in reality.
Have had a couple of Chuwi devices in the past, they're always a painful mix of really impressive with baffling cost cutting measures so I'm a bit wary of spending more than £50 on one.