I use a Framework and the trackpad is good enough that I rarely use a mouse. It’s not like a Thinkpad where the buttons for the nipple thing take up so much vertical space that the trackpad is actually frustrating to use (that plus Thinkpad trackpad surfaces tend to have more friction in my experience)

Like I’m genuinely convinced the only reason Thinkpad people don’t like trackpads is because their experience of it is hampered by the presence of that other thing that they refuse to give up. The world has moved on, trackpads are actually good now

Most companies I’ve worked for have issued me a Thinkpad. When you have a machine that’s so ubiquitous in office settings, you want it to have as boring and consistent a UX as possible so that everyone can adjust to it easily from whatever they’re used to. For the same reason, I’m also glad the laptop in the OP seems to finally put Ctrl in the correct place, though at least that was fixable before.

The buttons take up so much vertical space from the trackpad that it’s much harder to move the mouse with your thumb with your fingers resting on the keyboard. Not to mention that it decreases the amount of space on the trackpad where a click can register, since trackpads are hinged at the top

They’re about 10 years too late but I’m glad they finally abandoned that useless nipple thing, it always annoyed me how much that got in the way

I assume this was translated by a human both ways, not machine translated. It’s plausible in that case

This map keeps getting worse every time I see it

Do all Europeans choose to purposefully misinterpret information that is actually very easy to understand based on context?

Y

Decipher #11 deciphered in ⏱️ 2m 44s ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ https://decipher.wtf

Non integer display scaling will always look like crap.

No it won’t, Windows has had this figured out for at least a decade

Apple does block the Taiwan emoji in China, though I haven’t heard of Google doing anything similar so maybe it’s just an Apple thing

Tangent: on the other hand, Microsoft refuses to support country flag emojis for some reason which is annoying.

I think it’s so that they don’t have to make politically motivated decisions on which flags to include

Yeah but if we all wrote “joules per second” instead of watts we’d encourage everyone to measure energy in joules instead of watt-hours. It’s like speed, we don’t need an entirely separate unit that just means m/s

Or just joules per second for power. Eliminate watts entirely. Dumbass unit

not as great as his dad vomiting on the prime minister of Japan though

Well? Did you finish it?

I use it for a mix of text, handwriting/drawing, PDF annotation and image annotation, and I also pretty heavily rely on realtime sync between my devices. If none of that is stuff you use then I can see why you might want something simpler

OneNote. Don’t love being super reliant on all the Microsoft Office cloud stuff but there really isn’t anything that comes close to what I use it for

Hills are depth. They add character to any place for free. Oh you don’t like where you are right now? Just go up

Here’s an interesting write-up about an attempt to develop a large-scale urban maglev system in the 1970s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krauss-Maffei_Transurban

tl;dr: there were so many technical issues that when the West German company developing the tech lost funding and the Ontario government took over the project, they immediately abandoned the maglev concept and replaced it with linear-induction propulsion with steel wheels on rails (the mag, without the lev).

Even this tech, which does have a few advantages over conventional rail and is still used today in cities like Vancouver, is falling out of favour due to general logistical issues with using bespoke technology over conventional rail – fewer people know how to build and maintain it, you’re relying on usually just one company to supply your trains and infrastructure until the end of time, you can’t reuse any existing infrastructure, etc. I’d imagine these issues still get in the way of maglev development today – even more so because you can’t even reuse existing rails