Anon prefers Frameworks over Thinkpads

He also said that he would consider Linus Media Group unionizing a "personal failure," which is about as good as you could typically expect from a business owner but still not great.

Although he admits to using one. Still a stupid take but he's not like, adamantly anti-adblocker.

I don't support ltt but that's the weakest (most cope least knowledgeable) argument there is honestly

like that makes sense because by adblocking you are basically receiving "paid" content for "free" (i put quotes bc the site isn't getting paid unless you click but whatever)

he elaborates to say that he isn't criticising it, just drawing an analogue, and that he uses one himself iirc

ublock origin+sponsorblock <3 btw

btw my reason for not liking ltt is just that i don't like the consolidation of media and info sources, and that there's just higher quality content to watch

Ad blockers are piracy though. Calling something piracy isn't making any moral judgements

Linus never said he hates unions, he said he'd feel that he failed as the owner if his employees felt so underrepresented that they needed a union.

He has historically expressed support of unions in other companies and hasn't been against one in his own, he just doesn't want his company to need one.

In regards to the misconduct...
Announcement on the WAN show of the 3rd party results
Post that matches the one on Twitter

And the actual contents of the post:

There were a series of accusations about our company last August from a former employee. Immediately following these accusations, LMG hired Roper Greyell - a large Vancouver-based law firm specializing in labor and employment law, to conduct a third-party investigation. Their website describes them as “one of the largest employment and labour law firms in Western Canada.” They work with both private and public sector employers.

To ensure a fair investigation, LMG did not comment or publicly release any data and asked our team members to do the same. Now that the investigation is complete, we’re able to provide a summary of the findings.

The investigation found that:

• Claims of bullying and harassment were not substantiated.

• Allegations that sexual harassment were ignored or not addressed were false.

• Any concerns that were raised were investigated. Furthermore, from reviewing our history, the investigator is confident that if any other concerns had been raised, we would have investigated them.

• There was no evidence of “abuse of power” or retaliation. The individual involved may not have agreed with our decisions or performance feedback, but our actions were for legitimate work-related purposes, and our business reasons were valid.

• Allegations of process errors and miscommunication while onboarding this individual were partially substantiated, but the investigator found ample documentary evidence of LMG working to rectify the errors and the individual being treated generously and respectfully. When they had questions, they were responded to and addressed.

In summary, as confirmed by the investigation, the allegations made against the team were largely unfounded, misleading, and unfair.

With all of that said, in the spirit of ongoing improvement, the investigator shared their general recommendation that fast-growing workplaces should invest in continuing professional development. The investigator encouraged us to provide further training to our team about how to raise concerns to reinforce our existing workplace policies.

Prior to receiving this report, LMG solicited anonymous feedback from the team in an effort to ensure there was no unreported bullying and harassment and hosted a training session which reiterated our workplace policies and reinforced our reporting structure. LMG will continue to assess ongoing continuing education for our team.

At this time, we feel our case for a defamation suit would be very strong; however, our deepest wish is to simply put all of this behind us. We hope that will be the case, given the investigator’s clear findings that the allegations made online were misrepresentations of what actually occurred. We will continue to assess if there is persistent reputational damage or further defamation.

This doesn’t mean our company is perfect and our journey is over. We are continuously learning and trying to do better. Thank you all for being part of our community.

Can't speak to the rest, the independent investigation came out a month or so back and didn't find any wrong doing. 🤷

I can't help but feel that if someone like Linus said he "loves capitalism" in a video then it was probably a joke. Would you mind providing a link?

They also started to favor quantity of content over quality.

While true before a year ago, at the same time the SMM thing happened, they did some content mistakes, owned up to them and started doing the exact opposite of what you're saying

Well they do disclose their investment but I dont think it is what they were referencing. It makes sense for them to cover as they have a stake in the company doing well.

I'd assume they're SSDs. Fitting three disk drives in a laptop sounds like a bad idea to me.

I work with typescript on a very large codebase. If I have the code editor open and the run a typecheck at the same time, plus some electron apps and Spotify playing, it can easily fill my 32GB of ram, so 64 would be the next cool number to not have to worry about ram ever.

Futureproofing it for the next N years? Playing some mad games? Honestly no idea I just thought to take the current top tier benchmark and one-up it.

Edit: on reflection I generally max out my MBPs out of habit to get the longest shelf life possible. Perhaps it’s just habit.

Edit2: if it helps I tend to get a new laptop every 5/6 years. The aim here would be to happily bespoke the hell out of a system and get more than 6 years out of it.

unfortunately it's a reasonable amount of memory nowadays. I do 3D and print, and I tickle the bottom of my 32GiB more often than not. I'm upgrading soon

IDK about them but I'm running 3 vms and RDR2 at the same time and like 60 Firefox tabs.

compiling programs with gcc takes roughly 2GB per thread, if you want to compile with all but two threads and play modded Minecraft on the remaining two it can definitely take a lot of ram

The biggest one that I’m glad to never have to worry about:

User replaceable battery

You can even put a bigger battery in down the line if you wish. No planned obsolescence.

I disagree on the comment about cost disparity. Spec'd equivalently, even the Framework 16 (without GPU) is no more expensive than the smaller ThinkPad X1 Carbon. The more comparative Framework 13 even less so.

The modular ports (and GPU on the 16) are a nice bonus, but I agree that the largest attraction is for the tinkerer.

I think the fact that it is easily upgradable makes it a clear winner on the merits alone.

And even when you want to replace your main board, you can take the old one, 3D print or buy this Cooler Master case, and turn it into a relatively powerful server or HTPC or K8s node or whatever.

I hate it when my 4 to 6 dongles dangle too. So annoying. Thankfully we finally have a solution for it.

That's for a second ethernet port right?

but people don't pee from vaginas

In terms of repeatability, they're a little better now. Might want to check out T14 Gen 5 disassembly. I kinda liked it. Kinda, as in, they're nowhere near to the almost-GOAT T420.

Actually, I have never received a proof that there actually is such a thing (all mass produced looks like every other mass produced) besides electromagnetic properties https://www.whonix.org/wiki/MAC_Address#Burner_Wi-Fi_USB_Sticks but there is, unfortunately, "clock" which is the totalitarian World Order.