Hmm, it’s not “pointless”, I just wouldn’t buy one given that it’s inevitably going to be prone to failure.

I guess we will find out in 5 years or so.

I guess we don’t go to the same libraries?

What even is your angle here? No one cares what you think about my set up, my self least of all.

how many libraries you see with laptops on em and people with second monitors attached that people also carry

A lot, actually.

Sure. How silly of pretty much every office in the world to issue employees with laptops instead of mini PC’s.

Walk in to a library or Cafe anywhere in the world and you’ll see laptops, on desks and not on laps.

He certainly seems to be labouring under the mistaken impression that he’s a business genius.

No I didn’t want to add anything to the discussion, thank you.

“We made a minor incremental improvement to our manufacturing process using existing technologies what will improve battery cycles by 1%! Amazing!”

If only the claim were accompanied by a detailed explanation of what the people involved have actually achieved.

That’s fine, you do you and all that.

The thing is, laptops haven’t been "lap"tops for many years. Many workplaces have infrastructure where you carry your laptop around and dock it into your desktop monitors & peripherals at your desk.

I personally really like to work at our public library. In my backpack I have the laptop, monitor, keyboard, and mouse. It’s a really great set up and I can be just as productive as I am in my home office.

I have a lenovo external usb-c monitor.

I love it. Use it every day. It’s great.

I’d never buy this rolling screen gimmick.

I’m not sure you understand what dichotomy means, maybe look it up.

I didn’t say privacy laws don’t regulate social media.

Yeah I don’t really understand the pile on.

Enforcement is not important in any way. If most kids are on social presently, then by making it illegal it just won’t be a place for kids to congregate any more. What would be the point of lying about your age to create a facebook account if none of your friends are there.

Sure, some kids will still be on social, perhaps most kids will be, but there’s no doubt in my mind that their usage will diminish dramatically. That’s how public health works.

With great sadness I have to agree with you.

It’s just one shit show after another. Voice to parliament, live export ban, and now this. Meanwhile Australians are being ground into the dust by price gouging corporations and interest rate hikes.

That said I am in support of this legislation, but it’s just not enough.

This is a false dichotomy.

You can regulate social media platforms and have great infrastructure.

Your own childhood sounds tough, but advocating for social media as a way to mitigate shitty communities is a weird take.

Platforms love to use this threat… “if you regulate us we’ll just withdraw services in your jurisdiction”. They never do, and governments shouldn’t respond to threats like that in any case. If one or other platform were to restrict services in Aus, it would just increase the potential revenue for some other platform.

Yeah mine takes forever to boot.

This is for the oil and gas industry.

Ain’t nobody paying for an underwater habitat for researchers when all researchers do at depth is take photos and samples, which can be done by an ROV.

Oil and Gas OTOH need deep see divers to do welding and other maintenance all the time.

I think that an obvious bot can still manipulate users. Fb has infinite resources with which to test this stuff prior to roll out. They skittish do it if it didn’t work for them.

Even pizza shops with their own drivers. I’d usually prefer to go get it myself so it’s as fresh as possible.

Even in places with good infrastructure and generally non-murderous drivers it still gets very sketchy.

The majority of drivers just havent ridden a bike since they were 3, and just don’t understand that you’re part of the traffic, as though you can magically just slip around between all the cars.