it’s kind of a critique of the three laws of robotics. it’s main point is the effect that those laws would have on the people living alongside robots governed by them. the primary issue it points out with the 3 laws is basically that if people have an abundance or free labor that is strictly bound to do everything for them and protect them from all harm then they basically become slaves to their own servants (the books use that phrasing, probably because the characters narrating don’t see robotic labor as slavery). they’re not the best books I’ve ever read but I think they make a really good point about how ai/robots should be governed and about what the difference between one of those and a person even is (or rather if there is one at all, save for the three laws), and they are decent just not the best.

you should read roger macbride Allen’s caliban series

hopefully this goes through and all of the ai vc sink companies collapse and take their founders with them

theres a one piece keyboard and a one piece touchpad, but they still come off pretty easily which you wouldn’t want in a beefier version.

I meant reduced modularity for the sake of increased durability, because the keyboard and touchpad modules on the fw 16 are more liable to come loose and let dust in. the 13 would just need a new chassis, but I was talking about the 16.

I’d like a beefier fw16 chassis option to exist, but I would probably get the current one. also if they want to make it stronger like that it’ll probably need to be less modular too, at least so far as the keyboard and touchpad area goes. would be nice to offer as an enterprise-focused thing though, like for companies to use as company laptops or in industrial areas.

you can get cheaper prices elsewhere all the time. look at humble bundle (idk if they’re still around but thats where a lot of my games came from a while back), green man gaming, or any of the console app stores. depending on who has sales when games are cheaper all the time. y’all are falling for propaganda trying to discredit one of the only decent companies left in gaming written by their competitors and their competitors’ friends. try thinking a little before just following the social media hive mind because you’ve spent the last couple decades seeing proof that this is a blatant lie.

that’s basically what the fw desktop is meant to be. idk how good it is at it but the pricing tends to be 2-5k depending on your options, so similar to a mac mini.

only in our dreams

oh, well in that case the framework desktop might be in line with what your looking for. it’s like 1 liter in volume so not very big and it runs a pretty powerful processor with very fast ram and a very similar layout to how macs tend to be set up. it is expensive but not too much more than a mac.

I would look at framework. more repairable, more upgradeable, and they’ve recently taken steps to make their products closer to a max level of quality (including the option of a haptic touchpad on their two main models)

yeah the framework 12 doesn’t make a lot of sense bc the price point is way too high. kinda sucks bc if it was at more of a Chromebook type of price point it would be undoubtedly the best option for schools.

hey dumbass, private corporations have to follow the law and they need to react fast enough to have a system in place when the law takes effect.

thats fair, but a lot of people are giving them shit for complying in the first place with a law that is going to be in the state they’re based in.

its age attestation, not age verification (saying it vs proving it). also, dont give systemd shit about this bc they are just covering their asses in case more restrictive laws go through.

glad they’re finally realizing the metaverse is bullshit. the term came from early cyberpunk (genre, not franchise) media to describe the internet as we know it before it was invented and properly named.

the malware one happens in most repos at some point, but the rest is why i dont use ubuntu.

what’s the issue though? the existing system in plasma is already so out of the way its barely useful, so it makes sense to replace it with a better system and just ignore it. not that you shouldnt be doing what you’re doing, I just dont get why.

it had kinda the same idea of working with kwin instead of against it but it just worked worse than other options. iirc it got abandoned bc nobody was interested anymore once krohnkite was revived. yours also seems kinda similar to mousetiler.

sounds a lot like polonium. didnt work out great there but it could’ve just been a bad implementation. I’ll have to give fluid tile a try.