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The following is a post submitted to an Apple subreddit bragging that you can do the majority of your "computing" on an iPad/iPhone, now before I lose you immediately, take heed that this is actually a microcosm for the normie population at large. There is still some opposition, but an alarming number of these NPC's are leaving Mac/PC behind. If their demand for computers drops, the price for everyone increases. Here's some choice quotes, these are real beauties.
T R I G G E R W A R N I N G
>95% of my computing work can be done on my iPad Pro. It’s just that annoying 5% that’s really frustrating. I’m studying Maths and Physics at university, and they require access to Matlab and RStudio.
>I am in a similar boat.
>I do IT support for small and medium enterprise. Prior to my iPad Pro I was using my 2011 MBP for everything. I would charge it over night, put it and my charger in my bag, and go place to place.
>In IT support you are generally using someone else's computer, that you are fixing. My iPad seems to always have a charge. >My MBP still has to come out sometimes, to format drives, target disk mode, console work etc. But basically my iPad Pro has become my main machine and my MBP has become a tool for some tasks.
>Even doing quotes and stuff for customers is great. Having two Safari windows side by side and simply dragging content between windows is pretty nifty.
>I’ve definitely come to the realization that after college there is really no need for a laptop
>If there was Xcode, Git and better desktop website support, I could ditch the Mac and switch to iPad.
>Unless you are buying an i9 MacBook Pro, you don’t need to worry about this. Also, it’s still a bit unclear what exactly is happening. Most computer users could probably get by with just a tablet. In that case, it’s more preference. Some people like super portable machines. Other people want a larger screen.
>ipad pro with the pencil and smart keyboard is super close to replacing my PCs
>The only thing I currently use my Mac book pro for is gathering and sorting my photos and editing them.
>Put Matlab, RStudio, and other apps in a cloud VM, as long as you don't have to use it super often, it won't be too expensive. [This fag is replying to the OP]
>You could always use Remote Desktop for the 5%. That's what I do if I'm only using my iPad Pro for the day. I will use Remote Desktop go access my desktop or one of my servers that I need. I also has an ssh app that allows me to remote into my machines if needed.
Original thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/90ocnu/95_of_my_computing_work_can_be_done_on_my_ipad_pro/
▶ No.945630>>945632
>>945626 (OP)
>reddit
Fuck off kike
▶ No.945632>>945639 >>945714 >>946274 >>953350
>>945626 (OP)
It's the ones who push moving everything into "cloud computing" that really aggravate me. It really gives (((them))) greater power in being able to de-platform you. I don't use social media, so banning me from those sites has no effect, but if they could remove my ability to compute differential equations, that'd be quite something. Sadly it'll happen, and your computing privileges will be tied to some sort of Citizen Social Score.
>>945630
>If I pretend it doesn't exist, maybe it'll go away.
▶ No.945635
>>945626 (OP)
>reddit
That place is a cesspool, what else is new? It would be saying that the sun is bright.
▶ No.945639>>945649 >>953473
>>945632
WAAAAAAAAAAAA YOU'RE A BLACKPILL KIKE WE CAN STILL FIGHT THIS
In all seriousness, thank you so fucking much for spitting the truth. Sadly this will fall on deaf ears yet again as this board has been compromised by bluepill cucks.
▶ No.945647>>945651
Have you ever seen DeX pads and NUCs? Smaller form factors is the way of the future. Get with the times nigger
▶ No.945649
>>945639
Why are you in every thread, gasconading about how the world is over? You're always using retarded buzzwords; I'm going to assume you're a summerfag. Fuck right off.
▶ No.945651>>945669 >>945727 >>946125
>>945647
Good goy. Can you believe the nerve of those assholes who think they need powerful workstations?
▶ No.945669>>945678
>>945651
There is nothing innovative about the intel nuc except it has a processor that doesn't run like dog shit for the price of less than a mac mini. These have been on the market for a decade almost two decades now. And Google has been putting out a chromeos version for almost ten years now.
For general consumer use I have no problem with them as long as I can get loonix on them and if they adopt ARM for the lower power consumption I would consider buying up a few of them if I could libreboot them as a net top. Other than that my x86 botnet machine is airgapped and only used for vidya and the occasional compilation I don't like to do on my chinkpad.
▶ No.945678>>945695
>>945669
The innovative aspect of it is that it's small enough to fit behind a monitor on a VESA mount. That's the whole point of these Intel NUCs, you have maybe 2-3 wires leading up to a monitor so the office environment or computer lab appears more modern. No more ugly wires or exposed ports everywhere which is a huge selling point if you look at typical Apple advertising.
Sure these types of computers existed before but now with Intel making them they've become a new standard form factor.
▶ No.945694
be wary of kikeshills and their niggerpills
▶ No.945695
>>945678
Yeah but the mac mini has been out for years and the Intel nuc is only to bring the attention of hobbyists or genpop computer buyers to it. The ones who aren't gamers, don't want a laptop and just need something for good word processing.
https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/desktops-and-all-in-ones/thinkcentre/m-series-tiny/ThinkCentre-M710q/p/11TC1MT710Q
This is an example of one and Lenovo has been putting things out like this for years, although the older models have a nicer looking case than this one and if it wasn't for the demon of UEFI/EFI Secureboot with ME I'd buy this They're good little computers for a student to use in college if they have to do code work or word processing. And when thats done with use it as a nettop you plug into a tv to play movies.
The only thing that I laugh at with the NUC is that when you take a gander inside its a tremendous piece of shit manufactured like the Mac Mini to be absolutely impossible to work with. At least HP, Lenovo and Dell didn't make their quality lines absolutely useless after 4 years. The workers get to take those home and play with them after they've been left on for 8 years. I think you can game with it if you jerry rig a gpu to it or hook up an egpu. But for now they're an overpriced piece of shit.
▶ No.945714>>945732 >>945826
>>945626 (OP)
Thin clients are awesome. Desktops are literally only good for gaming, and laptops are expensive and have fan noise/heat issues.
>>945632
>corporate cloud computing
This is the real problem. There's a healthy movement of people starting to build workstation and server-class machines for private remote computing, though. you do have a /homelab/, don't you anon?
>Social media
I really can't wait for Facebook to take its rightful place next to MySpace in the oldweb museum. Until then, let the normies build dossiers on themselves and learn the hard way eventually. In fact, I don't mind it at all because its like a normie guinea pig farm where they come up with ideas that can be factored out and made into a decentralized version on some other platform (mesh networks, crypto DApps, etc).
▶ No.945720>>945894 >>945974
>>945626 (OP)
This is the future OP. I've been through similar shit before, and I can tell you that it's better to accept it than to fight it, if only for your own sanity. You can't win this.
▶ No.945724>>945729
>>945626 (OP)
Seems reasonable to me, everyone has a different usecase and the ipad just happens to fill those niggers usecases better than an actual computer
▶ No.945727>>945729 >>945877
>>945626 (OP)
>take heed that this is actually a microcosm for the normie population at large.
No it isn't, see how he "does IT work". That means he's doing tech support over some shit app for peanuts. And in general reddit is not reflective of reality.
>>945651
Smaller form factors are the future, assuming it's not already the present. Think of all the ways someone can use an Rpi, for $40 they're getting the same if not more capability from a machine that costs $200+ refurbished, takes more space and consumes more power. It's a no-brainer.
Likewise, phones will become more capable and people will just buy them unlocked without a SIM card anyway. Functionally there is no difference between plugging your phone into a TV/keyboard and using emacs on it vs doing the same with a huge box PC. We aren't there yet though, simply because the peripheral market isn't big enough or standardized. Hell, I expect to do this with smartwatches in a decade.
▶ No.945729>>945730 >>945744 >>945775 >>945781 >>945843
>>945724
When your tech support is using little tablets and hates real computers you have a huge shift in knowledge happening. How can someone repair something if all they know is an enclosed box with a screen on it? Not exactly tinkering with your tablet now are you?
>>945727
A phone will never replace a monitor because they're two completely different objects. You don't want a 4k phone in your pocket because it's heavy as fuck. But you also don't want a tiny monitor because it's pointless to watch movies on a screen that tiny. Anything smaller than say 7 inches screen wise is just unusable for watching video.
>The future is smartwatches
Are you having a laugh? A watch screen is too small and watches are dying out because phones tell you the time just as easy. Smart watches won't ever take off unless we have hologram technology. It's the same way we have motion controls, 3D and VR And yet people overwhelmingly pick to use the old 2D TV and controller way to play games. When something just works it doesn't get replaced by novelty. It's working and even if it's not the best thing ever, it's ease of use makes up the difference.
▶ No.945730>>945732 >>945733
>>945729
>hologram technology
Agreed, this would bring wrist watches back into style immediately. Our current timeslice has no need for watches, and it's basically boomer-tier to wear one now. It's really a shame because watches are one of the few accessories a dude can wear without being a faggot.
▶ No.945732>>945735 >>946612
I have been isolated from actual PCs for extended periods, forced to use only iOS devices, and the experience is pure torment. Older/smaller devices with zero multitasking, newer devices that can't multitask more than 2 "apps", still horrendous basic text editing (cursor placement, selection, cut/copy/paste), no scrollbars for long files, programs routinely doing things behind my back sans notification like silently deleting and un-caching tabs, and absolutely no way to fix any of it without jailbreaking.
Normalfags using phones/tablets/nettops/NUCs wouldn't bother me, if only it had an interface that was actually usable for anything beyond the shallowest passive consumption.
>>945714
>Desktops are literally only good for gaming
<or video
<or audio
<or illustration
<or 3d
<or simulation
<or informatics
<or compilation
Gaming happens to be a superset of some or all these things, but just because it's the only application most normalfags share in common, hardly means it's the only one any normalfags need.
>>945730
>holograms
Not strictly necessary, pics related.
▶ No.945733>>945734
>>945730
weird african style earrings, normal rings, wristbands and all sorts of other assorted faggotry has long been accepted for use by dudes.
every day we stray further from god
▶ No.945734
>>945733
Men need more range of dress, not less.
▶ No.945735>>945736 >>945737 >>953473
>>945732
>Desktops are literally only good for gaming
>Except for all this other shit
Thin client + LAN/remote workstation would handle those workloads just as well, and satisfy a bunch more use cases.
▶ No.945736>>945738
>>945735
So instead of buying a Desktop you now have to buy a thin client AND a desktop that you then connect to your thin client via LAN?
▶ No.945737>>945738
>>945735
Sadly, the lag is pretty annoying even on a LAN. If there were something that sent uncompressed KVM with an emphasis on minimal lag, like the way analog CATV could push a hundred channels of TV, building a quad-socket personal mainframe for a home/office would be awesome.
▶ No.945738>>945739 >>945745
>>945736
Not a desktop, a workstation (for yourself) or a server (if multi-user). Do you not know the difference? It's a lot beefier than a desktop. Then you can leverage powerful computing resources for compilation, A/V transcoding, and hosting without interrupting your workflow and access those resources with a phone, tablet, shitty laptop, whatever.
>>945737
You should look into unRAID.
▶ No.945739>>945743
>>945738
I'm sure normies will want to buy a server and then set it up, yeah that sounds reasonable
▶ No.945743>>945750
>>945739
Sorry didn't realize you were a fucking normie. I'm speaking to /tech/, maybe you're lost, friend.
>>>/reddit/
▶ No.945744
>>945729
He was talking about watches and phones having the computing power, thus plugging them into keyboards and monitors effectively turns them into computers that are just as functional (if not free and secure) as running gentoo on your 2009 Thinkpad. Read the post faggot.
▶ No.945745>>945748
>>945738
Storage is a solved problem, just use iSCSI. I'm talking about remote execution and rendering, where your only options are network-based streaming like VNC (laggy, most implementations are artifact-ridden), or partial local execution like X (buggy, totally useless for some applications).
▶ No.945748
>>945745
I see; I thought you wanted a gaming solution at home that integrated with other common server-based services. All remote graphics solutions seem to suffer from latency, unfortunately.
▶ No.945750>>945753
>>945743
His post was sarcasm you blithering faggot.
▶ No.945753
>>945750
>sarcasm
Yeah and I responded to it as such. What are you implying exactly?
▶ No.945775>>945837 >>946268 >>946612
>>945729
>Are you having a laugh? A watch screen is too small and watches are dying out because phones tell you the time just as easy. Smart watches won't ever take off unless we have hologram technology. It's the same way we have motion controls, 3D and VR And yet people overwhelmingly pick to use the old 2D TV and controller way to play games. When something just works it doesn't get replaced by novelty. It's working and even if it's not the best thing ever, it's ease of use makes up the difference.
The problem -screen size- can be fixed with better heads-up displays that mount to glasses. Already consumer products that achieve this exist, it's only a matter of time before people realize they can get a full desktop experience from a small device that mounts to their wrist and can accept the buckets of USB/microusb peripherals they already own.
It won't happen next year, it won't happen in five years and it probably won't happen in ten. But it will happen. First cops will start getting face/plate/body scanner glasses then firemen, paramedics, etc.
▶ No.945781
>>945729
>How can someone repair something if all they know is an enclosed box with a screen on it?
Great for us who do know how. Less competition = more $$$/hour.
▶ No.945803>>945969
>>945626 (OP)
Just proof that these kiddos never did any productive work with their shit at all. How do you write a thesis worth 100 pages on a fucking touch screen? Will you dictate it to siri? What about a working LaTex toolchain? Or actually coding/testing stuff on a 10" screen? I can't even tye more than a text message on a fukcing touch screen without getting cancer on my fingers.
I totally get though that for Faceberg and Instashit you don't need any more than a screen with a cam attached to it.
▶ No.945824
>>945626 (OP)
computers have already gone phone anyway. all you can buy now is an ultrathin laptop with (((U)))EFI and all kinds of other retarded bullshit
▶ No.945826
>>945714
>thin clients are awsome
oh yeah, it must feel real great having even worse lag than the 200ms per button click we have on any modern "thick client" system right now. do you also like the web?
>I really can't wait for Facebook to take its rightful place next to MySpace in the oldweb museum
the web is dying a slow death, in case you haven't noticed. there will never be anything good again aside from the odd website providing something actually useful (and thus illegal) like warez
▶ No.945837>>945844 >>945846
>>945775
Firemen already have thermal optics to see through smoke and police in China are using glasses similar to the ones in your post but it's to turn them into mobile surveillance units rather than to display information. The screen is used as a viewfinder.
Solid micro displays like the Vufine are only good for drone flying in jurisdictions where of line of sight is required and translucent displays are still in the very early stages of development unless you want a few columns of monochrome text. Consumer products that achieve what you claim don't exist yet and are still years away from being sold for under for $1000.
Meanwhile you can buy a 50" 120hz 4k LCD for under $400 right now and around 2020 an 8k short throw laser projector that can turn any wall into a bright 150" screen will cost under $500. By the time HMDs are usable enough to provide a full desktop experience few people will bother with it as the alternatives will be so much better and less cumbersome to use.
▶ No.945843>>945854 >>945860 >>945862 >>945971
>>945729
>reach for pocket of skinny jeans to pull out phone
>scrape eczema on back of hand on the edge of pocket, small lesions open up with bleeding and pus
>recovering the phone from the pocket, wipe off the sweat-covered screen on t-shirt, while almost dropping it onto the pavement of the crosswalk
>with thumb, reach for home button on phone to make the screen turn on
>after awkardly depressing thumb around the edges of the button in a way that avoids wrist pain, the screen finally turns on
>11:36am 55s
>wait a minute
>11:36am 55s
>the time isn't changing
>after pressing the 3 buttons on the phone for a minute, pull out battery and reinsert (wew luckily I didn't get an iPhone)
>after 2 minutes, phone boots up and connects to cloud and stuff
>13:50
▶ No.945844>>945927
>>945837
>Consumer products that achieve what you claim don't exist yet and are still years away from being sold for under for $1000.
incidentally, as of the last few years people have started paying $700-2000 for small LCD screens again
>Meanwhile you can buy a 50" 120hz 4k LCD for under $400 right now
but why would you do that when you can pay $5000 for a 45" 4K screen?
>120Hz
all that means for TVs is they do some frame doubling bullshit
▶ No.945846>>945927
>>945837
WTF are you talking about? We've had consumer HMDs with VGA resolution under $500 since the late 90s, and the SVGA Google Glass for under $200 (under $100 according to some analysts!), with numerous newer consumer XGA and up HMDs targeting <$500 over the last few years, all of these things using translucent displays.
▶ No.945854
>>945843
>pull out battery
like you can
▶ No.945860>>945862 >>945972
>>945843
>Take phone out of large pocket
>camera senses light change and displays time on unlock screen
>Put phone back in pocket
It's like you don't wear pants 3 sizes too big for you.
▶ No.945862
>>945843
>>945860
>not wearing a manpurse where you keep your phone
▶ No.945877>>945878
>>945727
>reddit is not reflective of reality
There was a time when "check your privilege" was confined to Tumblr/Reddit weirdos. Now that sentiment permeates the American Democratic Party, and many others across Europe.
▶ No.945878>>945882
>>945877
... so yes, Reddit can act as a bellwether, because it provides an insight to what a vast swathe of the population are thinking.
▶ No.945882>>945887 >>945889
>>945878
>implying vast parts of the population are even capable of thinking
▶ No.945884
tablets are in a decline op
novelty
▶ No.945887>>945889
>>945882
What goes through their heads, if you prefer.
▶ No.945889>>945894
>>945882
>>945887
Yeah. In other words, what stimulus are they responding to. It gives us a chance to observe their behaviour, and plan accordingly for it.
▶ No.945894>>945936 >>945974 >>961985
>>945720
LISTEN TO THIS POST EVERYONE
You are absolutely right, anon. But unfortunately, some here are too blind to see truly how unwinnable the fight is. The future is mobile only, and many of us have accepted it.
>>945889
Our plan is to surrender. Nothing more, nothing less. We can't win this.
▶ No.945903
>>945626 (OP)
For certain usecases, having a tablet computer does the job that a PC does for some others. The problem I see here isn't that people think they can use an iPad for everything, the problem I see is people blindly following the applefag oversized-phone idea when what they do can actually be done better with a laptop.
▶ No.945909
>>945626 (OP)
Soibois don't write real code. Test me on this. They don't write shit. They dick around with a little bit of JavaScript and call themselves engineers.
If your soi workers are using weak laptops, get the hell rid of those workers. BEGONE!
▶ No.945910
>>945626 (OP)
Write beast software that people can't live without, and that only runs on classic workstations. There's a bigger market than you realize but most of you can't code for shit so you live in easy web la la land where usability standards are ignored and everything is kinda jammed together without architecture.
▶ No.945911>>945915 >>946043 >>946279 >>956694
>>945626 (OP)
They are right about using it as a terminal to a beefier server or remote desktop. This is the way Unix is meant to be, and Apple is fulfilling the prophecy.
Eventually a visual overlay of our user environment will be built into our visual cortex and we will be able to generate text strings by thought, and give mental commands that don't even reach a verbal/common language linguistic form.
All the heavy lifting will be done remotely, with an image of our personal environment following us overland to the nearest cloud computing facility.
Our clothes will be covered in millions of tiny antennas for the terahertz range directed laser communication between ourselves and the future version of cell towers.
This will obviously require line of side modules in the corners of rooms and hallways for indoor use. Transfer speeds will be hundreds of gigabits per individual.
▶ No.945915>>945917
>>945911
>Transfer speeds will be hundreds of gigabits per individual.
Funny how kikeSPs like the Deutsche Telekom and AOL are the only thing preventing the Thin client model from becoming viable outside of specific über-pozzed areas.
We'd already be implanted with li-fi botnet recievers in our retinas from birth if we had nip-tier Internet infrastructure.
▶ No.945917>>945961
>>945915
How is telekom still in business? Who still uses them as ISP?
▶ No.945925
>hur dur thin client latencies me press button me wait 1 second
easy on that edge computing
>smol scrin
13 inches 4:3 600 DPI just like in my thinkpads with no competitors from laptops
>muh gaymes
I bet you can emulate all good games (pre-2005) on a $150 smartphone today.
>muh gahnoo/compilation
remote server, rent a vps, it would be cheaper than paying for electricity in your basement powering ten year old xeons
>muh math
use a calculator and plotting spreadsheet
>muh big math
your university should provide a supercomputer for that
>muh sysadmin monkeywrenching
all you need is ssh and digital documentation
>muh typing on touch screen
get a keyboard, dumbo, even your meme 56% RGB Chery mechanical would work with it
>muh colloidal dispersion of polymer particles in a liquid
just use OCR, larper. modern tablets can recognize pen input instead of your 40 year old boomer syntax in vi
>muh cad
>muh 3d
this shit is so easy, it runs in a browser already, for anything bigger than a 3d-printed dildo you'd probably need a dedicated server for rendering and physics simulation
▶ No.945926
>>945626 (OP)
>i9 MacBook Pro
Lol, that's a subject in itself. It has been an absolute dissaster for Apple, as the chip is way too hot, and then has to resort to constant throttling.
▶ No.945927>>945989
>>945844
>incidentally, as of the last few years people have started paying $700-2000 for small LCD screens again
Do you mean VR headsets? Sales are way down compared to last year if you ignore the Oculus Go.
https://variety.com/2018/gaming/news/superdata-vr-sales-report-1202878145/
And the recent Valve leaks shows that the VR ecosystem is a complete joke when it comes to sales of software.
>>945846
Yes and they're all garbage that you'd glance at periodically, I'm talking about translucent displays larger than a quarter of a postage stamp an inch away from your eyeball and is comfortable to use. Asides for the display used on the F35's $400k helmet I haven't seen any. Maybe displays half the size of a postage stamp or more for around $1000-1500 will be available next year if the Meta 2 and Hololens headsets are released. But they'll still display a fuzzy mess unsuitable for doing anything useful while looking ridiculous.
Solid micro displays there's quite a few decent applications for those. Motorcycle helmets with a camera on the back. Paintball helmets with GPS that shows your arena and location of teammates. Scuba dive masks with a dive computer built in. Ski googles that show your speed and location on a mountain. But as a stand alone mount for your glasses all it's good for is flying drones or as a viewfinder.
▶ No.945936
>>945894
>>945894
>LISTEN TO THIS POST EVERYONE
>You are absolutely right, anon... unwinnable the fight is. The future is mobile only, and many of us have accepted it.
2¢ deposited in your account shill
t. desktop master race
▶ No.945961>>945965
>>945917
Some 70% of the german population because the competition rarely has better speeds and then only in certain areas where small, local ISPs flourish against all odds primarily due to fibre investments which the Telekuck has been willfully ignoring/actively shit-talking ever since the 2000s despite having one of the world's fastest fibre networks back in the mid 90s with worse service+overall coverage, especially in rural areas which translates to anything outside of major city centres or scientific institutions, and their unironically sophisticated comparatively speaking mobile network beats the competition by a mile.
Fucks sake I live some 300 meters off a highly renowned research facility with 1GBit fibre and all I get is shitty 8mbit ADSL2+ with cable Internet never ever even though a large cable ISP has his headquarters 2km down south.
Then again the once-shit 4G reception has been magically improving ever since they started settling achmed&jamal to fill in for the first gen boomers dying off.
I do have a number of alternative ISPs available but they all use Telekuck infrastructure and have even worse speeds if the neighbours are to be believed.
At least it isn't metered or throttled
▶ No.945965>>945968
>>945961
>I live some 300 meters off a highly renowned research facility with 1GBit fibre
where exactly do you live?
t. BND
▶ No.945968>>945973 >>945975
>>945965
In the Afghuinean quarter of New Istanbul, the ever-growing diversity has been giving me the strength to apologize for the Holocaust every day while donating to poor starving Syrian Rebels like a proper human living in germany should.
Granted Police haven't really been patrolling all that much but that is no issue, I am truly proud of my evil nazi ancestors being defeated during WW2 for those peaceful hooded preachers and knife wielding 30 year old african teenagers will surely see the good in me and come to an understanding through tolerant and respectful discussion.
Please subscribe to my vegan diet Vlog&Patreon kthnxbai ;-)
▶ No.945969>>945977 >>953473
>>945803
> How do you write a thesis worth 100 pages on a fucking touch screen?
What's a Bluetooth keyboard-stand, retard?
▶ No.945971
>>945843
>pull out battery
What are you, still living in 00s?
▶ No.945972
>>945860
>It's like you don't wear pants 3 sizes too big for you.
it used to be called "correct size" before hipsters
▶ No.945974
>>945720
t. Shlomo Goldstein
>>945894
t. Chaim Shekelberg
▶ No.945975>>946230
>>945968
>human living in germany
is this still a thing?
▶ No.945977>>945979 >>946323
>>945969
Why are you here? Honestly, if you think an iPad and blue tooth keyboard is pretty awesome, just leave and follow some 'tech bloggers' on twitter. You are a zombie npc consumer, and you are horribly lost.
▶ No.945979>>945980
>>945977
Where the fuck did I say that?! I don't even own a tablet. I'm just not stupid enough to deny what's possible and how people normalfags are using that shit.
▶ No.945980
>>945979
Alright, carry on then.
▶ No.945989>>946026
>>945927
>a quarter of a postage stamp an inch away from your eyeball
Though, for instance, Google Glass does indeed only have a 14° FoV, you realize that's equivalent to a 9" display at 3', or about the same as a lot of bottom-end laptops (and old PC monitors), right?
>the display used on the F35's $400k helmet
Is 2kx2k per eye, with a 70° FoV. That's nice, but not particularly far ahead of something like the Dreamglass, which is 720p in each eye at 90° FoV, for $400, right now:
https://www.dreamworldvision.com/product
>But they'll still display a fuzzy mess unsuitable for doing anything useful while looking ridiculous.
The underlying technology for these things isn't unique, most of them use the same micro reflector chips (DLP, LCoS, FLD, etc.) as video projectors. To see what somebody could do with HMDs at any moment, just look at video projectors, and subtract the price of basically everything other than the chip.
▶ No.946026>>946295 >>946301
>>945989
And can you see yourself using a 9" washed out see through LCD panel with the backlight missing at 3'? I can't. Might be fine as rear view mirror in a motorcycle visor if it didn't cost $1,600(this video is simulated and wouldn't look as good IRL). I'd rather spend money on a more useful feature like an auto dimming visor combined with a solid micro display and camera/gps addon for less than $500.
>Dreamglass
Oh boy another one of the dozen worthless AR headsets that all go the way of CastAR thanks to closed SDKs based on Unity that'll do nothing but have a few worthless tech demos on it.
>The underlying technology for these things isn't unique, most of them use the same micro reflector chips (DLP, LCoS, FLD, etc.) as video projectors. To see what somebody could do with HMDs at any moment, just look at video projectors, and subtract the price of basically everything other than the chip.
It is unique for the F-35's helmet as they use 2 OLED micro displays from eMagin that costs $8k each and are only built in the US. You might be able to get an engineering sample if you're serious about buying several hundred of them. I remember this guy spent $4k on one of their early monochrome 2k displays to do tests on for his VR headset;
http://www.mellottsvrpage.com/index.php/fov-comparison-eyepieces/
▶ No.946043>>946137
>>945911
Thin client niggers please die.
▶ No.946104>>946116
This thread scares me
I'm buying up laptops at the pawn shop
▶ No.946116
>>946104
What are you gonna do with those?
▶ No.946125>>946138
>>945651
I've been thinking about buying one of these for my mother. She's got ALL THE CATS and puts her computer on the floor in a corner and doesn't clean the cat hair out of it. As a result, most of the computers she gets have incredibly short lives due to overheating issues.
▶ No.946131>>946268
since they already have the "smart keyboard" (what americonsumershart language is that even..), i can't wait for the circle of ergonomics go around and have wait them to 'reinvent' a tiny wireless mouse every other laptop comes with (but shaped like woman's soap and made of metal, just imagine the spinning 3D renders) so applefriends will also more or less have those shitty microsoft surface ..devices and they will like them then for some reason.
▶ No.946137
▶ No.946138
>>946125
Why not just buy her an ipad?
▶ No.946162>>946207
>>945626 (OP)
The solution is to block mobile posters.
It has always been the solution. the final Solution.
▶ No.946166>>946256
>Apple subreddit
>reddit
see, there's your problem
▶ No.946207>>946252 >>946257
>>946162
Technically impossible.
▶ No.946230>>953952
>>945973
I really need to work on purging the remaining wrongthink out of my life, kinda hard when you don't know what they'll retroactively mark as such every week though.
>>945975
It's been a thing ever since das Ferkel came to power.
▶ No.946252>>946620
>>946207
Why not?
Block by user agent, those smart enough to work around that wall aren't going to be normie retards.
▶ No.946256
>>946166
Don't be too sure, it seems the cancer has even spread here.
▶ No.946257>>946263 >>946620 >>954535
>>946207
It should be possible to use timing analysis on the packets to determine if a user is on something like 3g.
▶ No.946263
>>946257
That's not good enough, I've been using 3g dongles with my laptop when I had to put a repeater in the middle of nowhere
▶ No.946268>>946498
>>945775
Those things will fuck up your eyes with long term use and also remove vision in 1 eye. I've used an R-zone and it was hard as fuck to walk along the street and pay attention with even just 2 little LCD mortal kombat characters on it. Having a full functional computer would be impossible.
>>946131
Touch screens are just better than mice to these people. I doubt even apple can sell them a mouse at this point.
▶ No.946274>>946317
>>945632
>if they could remove my ability to compute differential equations, that'd be quite something
R is already dethroning SAS, I think something will come along eventually to take down Matlab. The trend for computing seems to be towards free licensing and open source rather than more private domination.
▶ No.946279>>946464
>>945911
All that radiation can't be healthy.
▶ No.946292
>>945626 (OP)
For what it's worth, my wife has an iPad pro with pencil and now it's gathering dust in a drawer. Normies fall for this shit all the time, but it's mostly because of how many of them there are. When they learn their lesson, that's one less person that has to be taught.
▶ No.946295>>946297
>>946026
>left side of road
>distances given in miles
>not British
▶ No.946297
>>946295
that's clearly Japan
must be an American or British product
▶ No.946301>>946303
>>946026
That looks distracting as fug, I'd prefer something like this.
▶ No.946303>>946306
>>946301
It's also fucking retarded because mirrors are way simpler and do the job better because your sight is stabilized whereas stabilizing a camera in a moving motorcycle is extremely hard.
▶ No.946306
>>946303
I thought the camera was attached to the motorcycle?
Who came up with this shit?
▶ No.946317
>>946274
>I think something will come along eventually to take down Matlab
You mean Octave?
▶ No.946323>>946410 >>946478 >>946503 >>953473 >>954988
>>945977
the only problem wth ipad + bluetooth is from a freedom perspective, no? I can't understand why you'd have a problem carrying around something lighter and potentially more powerful than a typical /tech/y's liberated thinkpad x60 (which I own)
▶ No.946409
>>946305
What would you prefer to be called faggot?
▶ No.946410
>>946323
You think this way because you are consumer rather than producer.
▶ No.946464
>>946279
It already isn't, look at the state of the normalfags today.
▶ No.946478>>946503
>>946323
Closed ecosystem that you cannot even write use to write and compile your own programs on.
▶ No.946480>>946491
>Apple
>Feeding subpar hardware because they stocked up too much
>Well overpriced for what it is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xjor24HO2HA
▶ No.946491
>>946480
No Tyrone, I will not watch your youtube video. Learn how to make it a webm, so I can ignore it in another way.
▶ No.946498
>>946268
>Touch screens are just better than mice to these people. I doubt even apple can sell them a mouse at this point.
I think that since Affinity has already crammed it's Photo Paint product on the macintoshpad and Adobe is about ot follow with Photoshop, 'creative professionals' will more than likely welcome Affinity Designer/Sketch/Illustrator.. and those even more than raster editors require precise pointer control to do something productive. At that point why even sell them Air anymore.
▶ No.946503>>946509
>>946478
That would be the "freedom perspective", no? Still, my objection to >>946323 would be, as in my first post to this thread, that the interface is fundamentally flawed for a lot of work. The iOS/Android fullscreen fatfinger interface should simply toggle off entirely when a keyboard and precise pointing device are attached.
▶ No.946509>>946513
>>946503
Freedom covers the closed part, but you cannot (to the best of my knowledge) compile iOS apps on an iPad, so it's a functional disadvantage as well. Perhaps you can get a python interpreter running, or some Apple Swift sandbox (I'm not sure), but those aren't treated as first-class apps.
I see the iPad as a consumption device only, good for web, PDFs, quick emails, media (it can AirPlay to an AppleTV).
▶ No.946513>>946559
>>946509
That's purely because Apple doesn't allow compilers in their walled garden, the same isn't true on a jailbroken device:
http://iphonedevwiki.net/index.php/On-device_toolchains
Or other less restrictive platforms like rooted Android.
▶ No.946548>>946593
you realize how fucking inconvenient and complicated it is to program on a fucking tablet?
go ahead and try to work with your code base without clicking on things without a mouse, go ahead, touchpad is ATROCIOUS and SLOW AS FUCK
theres is a reason why tablets fell off except iPad, its a novelty device designed for normies not productivity
its anti-productivity, all its good for is surfing the web, playing mobile trash and reading books, everything else is more complicated and cumbersome to use than a PC
thin client is for convenience of lectures and few minutes of wasting time
replacing deskop is about as realistic as replacing localized hardware, which falls into all the same traps and has failed for 30 or more decades to even come close to taking over, call me when everyone outside the city has fiber, thats most of the country in every country were talking about here
▶ No.946551
laptop once it has good enough hardware can get close to desktop usage, but replacing it in datacenters? hahaha yeah right
▶ No.946552
It's fucking reddit, what did you expect?
▶ No.946559>>946564
>>946513
I think the objection is that as the further you get away from the standard iPad use-case, you're going to be much better served with a laptop. The last time I checked the cheap Macbooks were pretty much the same price as the iPad pro anyways.
▶ No.946564>>946593
>>946559
Yes, but it would be pretty cool if the early-2000s-PC-power of modern phones could actually be used with access to a proper UI for its full potential without being hassled by the walled garden ambitions of Apple/Google/MS also killing off the cancer that is laptops, and restoring the PC proper to its rightful form of desktop workstation exclusivity.
▶ No.946593>>946595 >>946596 >>946612 >>946621
>>946548
>work with your code base without clicking on things
I think, you've got the wrong door, Rakesh. Microsoft Technet forums is 2 blocks down
Cool kids here edit their code with console commands, just for you to know. Don't say such heretic things on /tech/, or you'll be sent to reddit by edgy 15 year olds.
>touchpad is ATROCIOUS and SLOW AS FUCK
Touch pad is not the same as pen-sensitive capacitive touch screen, by the way, did you know that mouse came as a replacement for pen input because the latter was too expensive? It is faster and more convenient for human biomechanics to reach something with a finger or stylus than to precisely move a mouse pointer with mouse, or worse, a track ball. Imagine typing on a keyboard by selecting keys with a mouse? That's what it feels like to operate a non-touch display.
>everyone outside the city
There will be no one "outside the city" in 20 years with this speed of urbanization. A bunch of luddites praising old bearded faggot and screeching about "muh computah freedom" don't count.
>>946564
Laptops have two advantages: portable keyboard and ports, until someone designs an appropriate dummy dock station for phones in that form factor, you will never get desktop experience from pocket devices.
▶ No.946594>>946598
>You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension
What, like nuclear weaponry?
▶ No.946595>>946612
>>946593
>Laptops have two advantages:
Don't forget performance. Apple can't even get the i9 to work in their macbook pro without it overheating, those problems become a lot more severe in phone size.
▶ No.946596>>946624
>>946593
To a phone supporting faggot: NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE OUR BOARD AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE. WE ARE NO LONGER A BOARD THAT WILL STAND FOR YOUR DEMENTED WORDS OF VIOLENCE & DEATH. BE CAUTIOUS!
▶ No.946598
>>946594
>he can't comprehend a runaway nuclear reaction
It's not that complicated to understand the basics.
▶ No.946612>>954995
>>946593
>until someone designs an appropriate dummy dock station for phones in that form factor
This will almost certainly happen sooner or later, if other options like the KVM projector I suggested >>945732 or the HMDs >>945775 suggested, don't happen first.
>>946595
>Don't forget performance
If you care about performance, you use a desktop or rackmount, as I'm sure you've noticed gaymur laptops and their ilk dying off. Intel/AMD's unwillingness to add more cores to high-end CPU packages in place of their ridiculous iGPUs is a separate problem.
▶ No.946620>>946629 >>946688 >>954997
>>946252
Normie friendly apps will do this out of the box.
>>946257
WiFi is a thing. Also wired internet access isn't everywhere. VPNs are also a thing.
You will trash more "legit" users and not accomplish anything.
▶ No.946621>>946629
>>946593
>It is faster and more convenient for human biomechanics to reach something with a finger or stylus than to precisely move a mouse pointer
I guess top Quake players all use a stylus or touchpad. Interesting…
▶ No.946624
>>946596
Touch screen smartphone = PDA with GSM modem.
▶ No.946629
>>946620
Make it physically inaccessible on phones, or heavily crippled: i2p or tor hidden service board, with non-standard protocol like telnet, gopher.
These anonymous networks require too much processing power and will be inconvenient to use on phones, especially i2p that needs "warm up" for finding and connecting to nodes which will lower the audience to those who use desktops and full-size displays, or has the mental ability to use gopher and i2p on smartphone and not have corporate spyware on it.
>>946621
Osu players do, IIRC, digital artists do too, we're talking about professional use here, right? Mouse is convenient for first person shooting games because small wrist movements transcribe to 180 degree field of view turns, Quake pros play with something around 3000DPI sensitivity on 800:600 res, however if you try a shooting gallery type of game with static camera, you'd literally outperform yourself or any mouse-user in it using a stylus, can confirm, I used to play such (flash) games on old tablet laptop.
▶ No.946659
>>945626 (OP)
why does xhe look like some steven universe character (i loathe the show btw)
▶ No.946688
>>946620
So what if WiFi is a thing, it will have a different profile than 3G. The cases of VPNs can be handled too, it's just slightly more complex. With sufficient skill, you could probably tell the browser/OS combination, just from timing analysis. This would be a fun exercise for someone here to try.
▶ No.946727>>946730 >>946734 >>946739
>I get triggered because other people don't like things I like
Hi reddit
▶ No.946730
>>946727
>I call people redditors on a reddit-like web 2.0 message board
hello 4chan
▶ No.946734
>>946727
If you're not triggered by this stuff, what are you doing here?
▶ No.946739
>>946727
>I get triggered because other people get triggered because other people don't like things they like
Hi tumblr
▶ No.946740>>954998
▶ No.946754>>946769 >>953751
Phone users destroyed the internet as we knew it, back in 2007 when Steve Jobs gave this great gift to the unwashed masses. Without any technical barriers to communicating online, we now have a sewer stream of filth plaguing our networks, these days, even blacks are online. Disgusting. Anyone who supports phones, supports the cancerous state we are in, and needs to swing promptly.
>But it's a light thing to carry around
Do you even lift?
▶ No.946769>>953751
>>946754
>Phone users destroyed the internet
>we now have a sewer stream of filth plaguing our networks, these days, even blacks are online. Disgusting
/thread
▶ No.953350
>>945632
>Citizen Social Score
just like in china
▶ No.953473
>>945639
No, this board has been ruined by lazy anons that don't bother discussing and only post worn out standard replies and memes.
>>945735
>Thin client + LAN/remote workstation would handle those workloads just as well
That's like saying you don't need ram because an hard disk can handle data just as well: latency and throughput over networl are bad compared to even the most basic hard disk, and incredibly terrible when compared to ram.
Also if you have the workstation on the LAN it's close enough to walk to it and work there instead.
>>945969
A blueetooth keyboard connected to a tiny screen is an inferior setup that can be useful in a pinch, nothing more and nothing less: consider getting a laptop if you need to do a lot of work on the move.
>>946323
Mobile devices are a LOT less powerful than what you might think, even when they aren't thermally constrained.
Try running some number crunching script on both platforms to see the most extreme differences: of course things aren't so bad for lighter and more varied workloads.
▶ No.953477
phones/tablets are for consuming media and communication
even flagship products will shit themselves when you start editing word documents (if not immediately after buying them give it a month or two)
> but muh cloud computing
good luck with that
▶ No.953486>>953493
How's this for a horror? They're testing this on the Homeless, and then it will be the unemployed. You will only be able to transfer money using cashless systems controlled by (((them))). Notice the name of the homeless person? What did the glow niggers mean by this?
>Homeless people are wearing barcodes around their necks in an attempt to increase donations in a cashless society, under an Oxford University backed initiative. A new social innovation project, called Greater Change, hands homeless people a QR code, similar to the kind issued for online tickets. Passersby who wish to give money - but who may not have any change in their pocket - can scan the code using their smart phone, and make an online payment to the person. The donation goes into an account which is (((managed by a case worker))) who ensures that the money is spent on agreed targets, such as saving for a rental deposit or a new passport.
▶ No.953493>>953495
>>953486
Wanna link me to where you found this? Pretty interesting
▶ No.953495
▶ No.953496>>953497 >>953504
>>945626 (OP)
that mystery meat in OP's pic is already horrific
▶ No.953497>>953500 >>953504 >>953788 >>953831 >>953841 >>954695 >>954733 >>954881 >>956607
>>953496
It's probably the most horrific commercial ever created.
▶ No.953499>>953504 >>953600 >>953788 >>954485 >>954695 >>954697 >>954787
And here is another terrible one they put out.
▶ No.953500
>>953497
>inner city
not shown: her flaunting her $1000 ipad when some nigger jacks it and then rides off on her bike.
▶ No.953504>>953509
>>953496
Any bets on what it is?
The nose looks Japanese, Eyes are blue, jewfro, sickly skin color, so I think it's a Jew+hapa mutant.
>>953497
>>953499
How is this supposed to convince me to purchase any product that isn't a cemetary lot or a cremation?
>washed out colors
>"I HATE" is the first word
>Multicultural dystopia
>Goblina with no friends, exists in inner city rat utopia
>some crack addict pretending to be a musician.
▶ No.953509
>>953504
She even looked like she was tweaked out rocking around on the floor like that.
▶ No.953600>>953604
>>953499
Is it casting a spell?
▶ No.953604
>>953600
she's preparing to consume
▶ No.953619>>953632
>Reddit
OP, look at all the top/trending posts on Reddit at any given time. And take note of how many votes each one typically gets, I found around 20k on average to maybe 100k if it particularly settles well with the hivemind
Now compare that to the average number of views most YouTube tech channels gets, even on their worst days its more than that. Same with shit like r/latestagecapitalism always landing the front page every other week. Ignoring the fact its been stupid easy to manipulate the front page in the past anyways
My point is that Reddits opinions literally do not matter in the grand scheme of things. They think they're much bigger than they are. And retards like you are the very reason they think that way.
▶ No.953632>>953650
>>953619
>YouTube tech channels
If this is how you spend your time, consider yourself a moron. Learn to do your own research instead of waiting for some stream fag to break it down for you.
▶ No.953650>>953659
>>953632
>hilariously missing the point
Also when I say tech channels I mean tech review channels like LTT where they shill shit every day. I stopped watching LTT though after he started reviewing a bunch of Chinese shit and got cringier somehow
▶ No.953659>>953664
>>953650
The point is that the youtube audience is even more retarded and cucked than reddit. The average redditor is probably 5 IQ points higher than a youtuber consuming pablum.
▶ No.953664
>>953659
>The average redditor is probably 5 IQ points higher than a youtuber consuming pablum.
They're both about the same level of intelligence. Please do not imply Redditors are anything more than consuming pablum themselves. My point, which you still fail to see for some reason, is Reddit is a lot less relevant than the OP makes them out to be.
▶ No.953788>>953791 >>953832
>>953499
Notice how you also don't actually see her doing anything on the mac, other than sit in weird and uncomfortable positions where she has to prop up the mac to type, but you only ever see her typing sporadically.
>>953497
This is the epitome of the post-modern society.
>mystery meat child (looks like mexihebrew, vampires in Twilight were in direct sunlight more than this kid)
>ambiguous gender- is it a boy, is it a girl? it's probably neither!
>already wearing problem glasses
>ugliest fucking hair cut
>lives in such a DIVERSE AND CULTURALLY ENRICHED city (coincidentally with white people barely making an appearance in the background noise)
>aimlessly wanders through city, stopping only to do something artsy fartsy on tablet
>everything looks more gray than england
>vapidly asks "what's a computer?"
Gonna add to this with some bullshit ad that GE put out. I probably left out the audio intentionally so I wouldn't bleed from my ears.
▶ No.953791>>953806
>>953788
White girls can be smart though, and she remained feminine in appearance throughout. I am thus not too triggered by this, although it does come off as contrived.
Bonus: The only time niggers featured in this commercial was when they were receiving handouts from whitey. The niggers getting cookies, and the nigger engineer (heh) receiving instruction.
▶ No.953806>>953809
>>953791
I'm more pissed that it's just another one of those "gurrl power!" commercials. I rarely see anything that encourages boys to aspire to be anything but an abundance of that for girls. It creates this imbalance, where because everybody is focused on girl power boys are going to feel dumb and useless because nobody is encouraging them, if the message was neutral and showed both girls and boys succeeding I would have less of a problem with it but that's apparently a tall order for the "equality minded".
▶ No.953809>>953849
>>953806
Oh absolutely, and what's worse, the 'Stupid White Guy' is a TV commercial tropism.
▶ No.953831>>953835 >>956669
>>953497
and what the fuck is going on here? is this the approved nu-way to collapse the keyboard and stand on your $1000 shitpad?
▶ No.953832
▶ No.953835
>>953831
It's just the weirdest thing, that caught my eye the first time I saw it.
▶ No.953841>>953842 >>954332
>>953497
What sort of scene is this supposed to be? An artistic assault on the senses? Hey why not just put random junk out on a street and have the kid sit amongst it... makes perfect sense!
▶ No.953842
>>953841
hashtag a world without walls
▶ No.953849>>955167 >>955171
>>953809
Reminder that "trope", like "gender", has only one legitimate meaning, referring to a specialized lexical classification from linguistics, and its current popular use is a neologism cobbled together by anti-intellectual brainlets who knew better for years before it caught on among normalfags.
-t. pre-SPOON ex-Troper
▶ No.953952
>>946230
It's good time for migrate and rape you.
And you better enjoy it or scream louder because I kinda like this shit.
▶ No.954332
>>953841
it looks like the inside of one of those clubs that burn down killing 60 "people"
only outside
▶ No.954485>>954498 >>954671 >>954697 >>954835
>>953499
This is how power users type.
▶ No.954498>>954569 >>954697 >>954835
>>954485
this degenerate cunt has tatoo's on her fingers. no wonder they made her wear those stupid red sleeves all the way down to just enough for her to type.
▶ No.954535
>>946257
most of us are joking but doing this is precisely the way to filter out non-normalfags. you will block all kinds of proxies and applications like scraping (for people who use websites from a real client instead of web browser)
▶ No.954569
>>954498
That makes me want to throw up.
▶ No.954671
>>954485
Is this Apple in one picture?
▶ No.954695
>>953497
>>953499
I would still fuck it in the ass.
▶ No.954733
>>953497
The liberal ideal where everyone is a sexless, raceless, homeless thing scurrying between nooks in an endless city to work on remote microjobs.
▶ No.954787>>954822 >>954835 >>954878 >>954886
>>953499
>Grimes
Ain't that Elon Musk's GF?
▶ No.954791
>>954697
A little too ironic...
It's like RAIIIIN.....
▶ No.954818
>>954697
Perfect. Mods better make this a banner.
▶ No.954822>>954835 >>955000
>>954787
Well that explains the sleeves covering her nasty tattoos.
▶ No.954835
>>954822
>>954787
>>954498
>>954485
>cuckchan /mu/ unironically worships that talentless cunt
▶ No.954878
>>954787
now you understand why tesla is on the path to oblivion similarly spacex will follow. you thought you were getting off this planet?? la goblina has other plans!
▶ No.954881>>954912
>>953497
I think she's rather cute, actually
▶ No.954886>>954910 >>954999
>>954787
Holy shit. Not to turn this place into TMZ, but this makes me want to short Tesla stock. What other bad decisions is he making?
▶ No.954910
>>954886
Take it with a grain of salt, but according to Blind Items he likes his cocaine, not surprising considering his taste in women.
Also Tesla financials look absolutely bleak, they can't afford to offer leases, they're begging suppliers to give them money back and he's been shot down by pretty much every potential investor he asked, for example SoftBank.
It's coming down sooner rather than later, it seems.
▶ No.954912>>954935
>>954881
only with porn lighting
▶ No.954935
>>954912
Archetypal le 56% face.
▶ No.954988>>955001
>>946323
>something lighter and potentially more powerful than a typical /tech/y's liberated thinkpad x60 (which I own)
You mean like a Dragonbox Pyra?
▶ No.954995>>955034
>>946612
>Intel/AMD's unwillingness to add more cores to high-end CPU packages
u wut m8? AMD is just releasing a fucking 32-core monster Threadripper, their mainstream platform goes up to 8 cores, none of which have an iGPU by the way. They even have a 65W octacore that has been crammed into high-end laptops already. The core wars are only beginning.
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▶ No.954998
>>946740
Is that even a word?
▶ No.954999>>961935
>>954886
Much of the famous stuff that Musk is doing is to generate publicity but is of questionable economic feasibility.
A few of the old people who worked on the GM EV-1 have said that the overall economics of building and selling huge amounts of e-cars is still not practical, and that's the big reason that GM didn't pursue it back then.
A few utility people have pointed out that installing huge batteries to handle power surges works *faster* than using temporary generators, but then the batteries cost much more than generators would. Everybody already knew how to install huge batteries to do that, but nobody would do it because it was very rare that the problem justified such a huge expense to fix it.
But hey, it's only investor money! They expect you to do stuff with it right?
Also--Grimes is an unremarkable bore, trying desperately to be something otherwise. Her only talent is pretentiousness. Im-not-like-the-other-girls.jpg
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>>954822
mebbe we start a rumor she has a swastika? on her taint? :D
▶ No.955001>>955003
>>954988
Actaully the so called pyra comes with a LTE module which is in fact NON-FHREE hardware!
▶ No.955003>>955005
>>955001
buy the 3G-less model then, faggot
▶ No.955005>>955034
>>955003
TBH i actually would buy it if it was 10inch and wasn't a gaming device
The keyboard just looks so damn awful on it.
▶ No.955034>>955041 >>955044
>>954995
Yeah, I was talking about laptops, obviously. Intel & AMD have both always had iGPU-less desktop parts.
>They even have a 65W octacore that has been crammed into high-end laptops already.
Isn't that just a desktop chip, or are the individual cores identical between desktop & laptop SKUs? My comment was more about things like pic related, where half the available die space is surrendered to a simultaneously overpowered and underpowered iGPU that's only used on expensive laptops that already have a proper dGPU for anything remotely serious.
>>955005
>and wasn't a gaming device
It's still cheaper and faster than your memepad
▶ No.955041>>955072
>>955034
>cheaper
Kinda
>faster
Nothin personall kiddo
▶ No.955044
>>955034
>It's still cheaper and faster than your memepad
No its not, ARM will never have IPC even close to x86, ever, especially not the A15
▶ No.955063
Working as a health care provider, my iPad Pro is much easier as efficient than my MacBook Pro.
▶ No.955072
>>955041
I said memepad, that's using a newer CPU /w muh buttnet & muh Minix.
▶ No.955167>>955498
>>953849
So what does it mean?
▶ No.955171>>955498
>>953849
If you believe a "hacker" is a computer security breaker, then words can take on new meanings when many people assign new meanings to the word. If you believe a "hacker" is a person who finds technically virtuous applications of tools that wasn't designed that way, then you can certainly make your argument.
▶ No.955498>>956667
>>955167
>Webster’s New International Dictionary of the English Language, 1913
>\Trope\, n.
>[L. tropus, Gr. ?, fr. ? to turn. See {Torture}, and cf. {Trophy}, {Tropic}, {Troubadour}, {Trover}.] (Rhet.)
>(a) The use of a word or expression in a different sense from that which properly belongs to it; the use of a word or expression as changed from the original signification to another, for the sake of giving life or emphasis to an idea; a >figure of speech.
>(b) The word or expression so used.
>In his frequent, long, and tedious speeches, it has been said that a trope never passed his lips. --Bancroft.
>Note: Tropes are chiefly of four kinds: metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony. Some authors make figures the genus, of which trope is a species; others make them different things, defining trope to be a change of sense, and figure to be any ornament, except what becomes so by such change.
>>955171
Linguistic descriptivism is bunk. Let's look at it from two angles:
<Assumption A: Descriptivism is true
>Since the definition and structure of language is open to change through popular use, all directions of change are equally valid, including consciously planned pressure to push popular use in a particular direction, i.e.: prescriptivism.
<Assumption B: Prescriptivism is true
>Since the primary purpose of language is the efficient expression of thought, having some universally fixed standard, unaltered except when a functional deficiency is specifically identified, s most conducive to easy conversation. As such, descriptivism is merely a ploy by which sloppiness and ignorance are excused.
Even ignoring honest points like this, however, seeing people make blatantly false claims that such meanings (especially neologisms dating back less than a decade!) existed for words before is pretty insulting.
▶ No.956607>>956622
>>953497
God I wanna fuck his little boypussy
▶ No.956622
>>956607
It is a girl and >>>/oven/
▶ No.956667
>>955498
Linguistic prescriptivism is bunk because it assumes that there is an authority with the ability to regulate how humans communicate. So long as meaning is effectively communicated, shut the fuck up usage nazi.
▶ No.956669>>963720
>>953831
Kind of a stupid complaint tbh. It's not going to damage anything, it's just exerting enough force to break the magnetic connection between the two flaps.
Everything else is a bunch of race baiting shit by /pol/tards that need to go back to their containment board.
▶ No.956694>>956918
>>945911
aids-free technology can only be created under a socialist system where the public at large own everything. this prevents profit motive from fucking everything up and diverting technology from it's path of advancement for the sake of advancement in favor of what sells more units to the retarded public at large
not like that will ever happen of course so enjoy your short-sale of a brighter future fellow prole
▶ No.956918
>>956694
Socialism isn't going to work in which the population is (barely) 56% white.
▶ No.961123>>961904
>>945626 (OP)
Laptops and desktops aren't going anywhere, since businesses are so heavily tied to x86 and Winshit. We'll always be there to pick up the used scraps, and hobbyist software will always be a thing. Normies buying iToys won't change that.
▶ No.961904
>>961123
>cuckchan filename
▶ No.961917>>961941
every other pad besides iPad isnt selling that well compared to phones
▶ No.961935>>964360
>>954999
>But hey, it's only investor money!
Every Tesla in California comes with around $10k of taxpayer money stuffed in the trunk to make them look more practical than they are. IIRC it's like $7500 federal $2500 state. All of Musk's profit is our tax money as the company is a freebleeder, and we've been paying for rich people to get a discount on a status symbol.
▶ No.961941
>>961917
have you used a typical samshit / xuiwey? i cannot describe how crappy and asian-bloatware-ridden these things are.. + when the regular user cluelessly fills them to the brim sketchiest ad-spy-ware from google playstore. the sensation is indescribable.
▶ No.961985
>>945894
Nigger I will 3D print my own parts just to spite you. Hobbyists and real cyberpunks will keep it alive. :^) There are so many projects out there like the passionate retrofit of old thinkpads. You can't stop it.
▶ No.963720
>>956669
>OYVEY the COMMERCIAL isn't pushing propaganda, YOU are pushing propaganda by commenting on the propaganda in the commercial. Fucking goyim!
▶ No.964360
>>961935
Conventional gasoline ICE vehicles, the refinery process used to manufacture fuel for them, and the externalities imposed by fossil fuels, cost vastly in excess of $10k more than a BEV. Since this cost is amortized over lifetime fuel purchases, its cost is less obvious to retards like you than the up-front sticker price of electric cells in a BEV.
For up-front prices to be even close to fair between gas and electric, subsidies would in fact have to increase far more.