Or maybe?
qupada
joined 9 months ago
"Binging with Babish" makes gourmet bachelor chow (beef bourguignon):
Even for devices that will stand the test of time on their own, they're still being unnecessarily modified by the addition of extra nonsense to support AI boondoggles.
I was talking to our company's account manager from one major PC manufacturer, he agreed that a generation of laptops with a likely-to-be-useless-in-future Copilot button permanently emblazoned on their keyboard will really date this era.
The computers themselves will be fine - they have some extraneous hardware but that doesn't really detract from their usability - but there's a better than even chance that logo will exist as a reminder long after memories of what it was supposedly for begin to fade.
Yes, but you shouldn't.
After a reboot, a lot of phones can only use the device's default keyboard app for entering the unlock pin/password.
If you've removed or disabled it, you can get into a situation where you have no keyboard at all, and a delightful chicken-and-egg situation of needing a keyboard you don't have until after unlocking the device to enter the code to unlock the device.
(A USB keyboard will let you escape this, for what that's worth)
Models with non-replaceable batteries designed for the device's entire 10 year lifespan generally work out to be the best option these days.
"New battery day" simply gets replaced by "new smoke detector day".
You might have to consider buying used.
Even older HP printers are fine (and I know people love to shit on them, but they too used to be perfectly safe and reasonable choices). More or less the safe/unsafe divide coincides with the switch from printers with 2x16 character displays to ones with full colour screens.
I've got a 2012-designed (but mine is 2017-built) HP Colour Laserjet CP5225dn, it has none of the modern lock-in shenanigans.
Just gotta find one that's new enough that consumables are still readily available (fortunately this usually isn't too difficult), and in good physical condition.
I don't want to get into a text editor war - because these are all good options - but it's definitely also worth giving the "Kate" editor from KDE a go, it's available as a native Windows app from the MS store and everything:
https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NWMW7BB59HW
I personally find it considerably nicer to use than Notepad++, and it means I don't have to give up 25 years of muscle memory for keyboard shortcuts when I have to switch to a windows machine.
Also some crazy how, it uses less RAM than Notepad‽ (With no files open, 61 vs 71MB) Not sure what Microsoft are up to, but it's definitely something strange.
I made this joke to people who work for AMD. I was a bit shocked that it hadn't occurred to them :D
Oh yeah, great purple colour when baked or fried.
Boiled, not so much ;)
As people have said, already happening:
https://www.dmarge.com/cars/tesla-owners-rebrand-backlash
And it's not fooling anyone