I'm willing to wait a while for pages to load if it's an effective means of taking back the web from the bots.

That's a tortoise, not a turtle.

VitruvianOS has the clothes of BeOS, which is nice and refreshing.

But Haiku has the soul.

Current FPGAs would have terrible performance. We need some new architecture combining ASIC LLM perf and sparse reconfiguration support maybe.

It doesn't have to be that way though. There's a bigger scam in the tech industry in general that says the path we're on is the only path we can be on.

More software doesn't have to mean less value for the customer. More software doesn't have to mean your tools and devices are spyware machines. That's just the lie we've been told.

Exactly! There's vastly more software available for Linux than there is for Windows and the Linux experience is vastly superior. It's a real-world example of "more software == better".

> It doesn't have to be that way though

I see this being repeated for years, yet it is that way. And it is because technical possibilities doesn't matter.

Bought out, bought in. Is the distinction important?

mips_avatar is describing neither.

I think all machine generated content should be labeled as such. And if a maintainer or a consumer or whoever doesn't want to accept it, so be it. But people should at least have the choice.

I take "outperform" to mean "can replace".

Am I mad or is there a missing ")" on lines and 8 and 9 of the first "C form" that should go before the semicolons?

Correct. Line 10 does not have the same mistake.

For me, ThinkPads won't be "back" until they have at least swappable batteries.

They still do? You just need to unscrew the base plate, plug it out and the new one in

Some people strongly prefer to have an external battery that can be swapped (as in pull a tab, remove the battery, and plug in another, which is fully charged). Older Thinkpads (T480 and earlier) had a second, smaller, battery inside that would keep the laptop running while the main (external) battery is being replaced.

I've been using various Thinkpads for 10+ years and have yet to use this feature. But hey, to each his own :)

Yes, I also prefer the 2nd external battery on my T470.

But in today's market it's still one of the most simple to change batteries. And you know you can still purchase a genuine one, 4 years later for a reasonable price