Well, there’s another reason why I run this ARM laptop: it’s fully open-source. Well, mostly: there’s one binary blob left. But that’s as close to open-source as I was able to find.
Like I said, there’s no good option if you need a computer - or indeed any product - that wasn’t made by some company in some country that runs against the values you believe in. Only the least bad option. This laptop is the one that ticked the most boxes for me.
I use an ARM laptop as my daily driver (RK3588 CPU).
Is ARM great? No. It’s slower than similarly-priced AMD64 machine, and for some reason, whatever power-saving algorithm my particular compute module is running makes everything CPU-intensive that interacts with the users choppy and annoying.
But it’s more than usable, and I have no doubt it’ll get better over time.
Here’s the most important thing about ARM for me though:
The ARM stuff I currently rock is made in China. Not great, but if you need a computer, it’s sadly the least terrible option at the moment.
I never though I’d say I wish COVID did a better job…
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No they’re not: the cosplayers can’t kidnap you and disappear you to a foreign concentration camp.
I will not be lowering my flag
Is that an ICE SUV I see in your street or just a random car full of masked people cosplaying?
You’re supposed to comply citizen!
Yeah, probably.
He already tried to do it once when this DOGE kid Corristine supposedly got his assed kicked. But he didn’t follow through because that was just a kid getting his ass kicked (if it even happened for real).
But that’s a bona fide death the orange utan can definitely exploit. He’s not gonna let a good MAGA death go to waste for sure.
I would move out.
Even if he never said or did anything, he was a friend of the Trumps - both the elderly orange peel currently staining the White House and his mentally-challenged offspring.
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but Trump’s friends tend to be rather nauseating people.
Read REPUBLICAN lawmakers.
As people lose money to tariffs, lose their Medicaid coverage, get snatched off the street by masked Gestapo-like thugs and locked up without due process, and become more desperate, a lot of them will want a go at the sonsabitches congresscritters and senators who voted for this shit that’s happening in their lives.
If I was a Republican anything, even a local politician, I’d be scared right now.
And you know what? I’m struggling to find a violin small enough to express how bad I feel for them.
Exactly.
The same way it’s going to be wildly ironic when the ICE Gestapo starts going after MAGA voters.
When a MAGA piece of shit gets gunned down, our Dear Leader is tripping over himself to praise the sonofabitch.
But when kids get gunned down at school, not a peep.
You know where the orange utan’s sympathies lie. What a nauseating human being…
He advocated for guns on campus, and got exactly what he wanted
That’s called irony.
Next up: RFK Jr dies of COVID and Marco Rubio is arrested by ICE for looking too latino.
That’s quite remarkable considering the kind of crowd usually found at tennis matches.
“‘I love the smell of deportations in the morning,’” Trump wrote on his social media site. “Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR.”
And somehow this shit doesn’t get him impeached…
Can you imagine if even this fascist-adjacent turd Dubya had said this? He would have had his ass dragged out of the White House in a New York minute. But somehow this is now acceptable for a sitting President to say. And all the other things…
You know, as a younger man priding myself in having a fair and balanced political opinion based on facts and logic, I used to think that if people can strike it rich, it’s okay as long as they don’t ruin the lives of others doing so.
Not anymore. As I aged, I realized the motherfuckers were either born rich, or became rich on the backs of others - and more often than not, both.
I still have nothing against honest rich men. But what that means is, close to retirement in 2025, I increasingly want all rich men dead.
Because the truth is, in our society, there is no honest rich man. If you’re rich today, somebody else is struggling in life so you can have it good. That’s just how it is today.
The backdoors have been there for years without dinners.
Yes of course. Corruption and sucking up to the powers that be is nothing new.
What’s new - at least in the United States - is the willingness of those ultra-rich sycophants to perform the Dear Leader song-and-dance publicly without any shame. It’s really quite nauseating to watch.
Trump cozies up to Big Tech specifically because their corporate surveillance network can be co-opted to turbocharge the fascist dictatorship he’s putting in place, and also because he needs their resources for his crypto scams.
You’re not wrong. But I have another argument: the Trump regime is not yet fully entrenched, and now is the time to vote with your wallet and boycott the collaborators that bankroll the regime in an effort to smother it before it’s too late. There’s still a tiny chance and every little bit helps.
China on the other hand… It’s been around for so damn long, no matter how much you try to boycott China-made product - if that’s even possible - it not going to make a dent in the regime’s grip.
One does what one can where one can.