As someone who works in the telecommunications industry, look up RDOF.

Not only is it a HUGE timeline that does nothing to incentivize actually completing a project early, but the main RDOF winner in my area has only wireless service available with zero construction projects planned except to put up more wireless equipment.

It also means those areas that company claims they’ll serve one day are ineligible for any more grant money and now that companies that are willing to bring fiber to those homes have to pay a boatload out of pocket while the RDOF winner just hangs out and watches.

I own three houses and rent out two others thanks to my $1200 stimulus check.

In an ideal world, Qualcomm would already have been toying with RISC-V chips and have a couple ready to launch.

Sadly, in this world it means next week there will be new licensing in affect that translates to flagship cell phones being $1500 instead of the $1100-1200 range.

Maybe other companies relying on ARM will see this and push to research RISC-V a bit more as an option that can’t be rug-pulled because one group of billionaires insulted another, but even that’s probably wishful thinking.

They could reveal the switcharoo in Doctor Strange 4: 2 fast 2 Dormammu

The bottom line is and always will be in almost any industry some variation of “we already set up hardware that was developed solely to use this ancient thing that’s a standard. Once this new thing becomes industry standard, then we’ll switch.” With the big issue there being, the industry standard will never change until somebody makes the first change and nobody wants to risk the amount of money it would cost to switch.

If by “goof thing” you mean a bunch of gun-nut goofballs are trying to undermine democracy and succeeding, then I agree.

Oh hey, it’s that time every couple of years Google pretends to care about tablets again!

I do, but live in the US, so I get to see everyone over there enjoy those fancy third party app stores.

Here’s hoping there’s a similar case after this against Apple.

Did you just use algebra to try to explain a question about personality traits?

So the problem with thin margins on the hardware side is what’s stopping a user from just installing their own OS once they figure out they can do the same thing you’re doing on the same hardware?

Got the same thing. Don’t even see it in TestFlight anymore.

It’s not a war crime if it’s the first time……

As of right now, there’s not much available for the X Elite processors.

I did actually buy the Yoga laptop with the X Elite from Lenovo about a month ago. I’m not sure I’ve ever had a better experience with Windows. I can leave the thing in standby mode for days and see maybe 4 or 5 percent battery drain. If I’m using ARM native apps, I can use it for 8 hours without charging easily and get through a work day with about 20 to 30 percent battery to spare. With x86 apps, it does use a bit more power, but battery life is still pretty good. I’d estimate 8-9 hours before totally dead.

Hopefully development picks up more on the Linux side because I can’t wait to see how much better the battery life would be.

Just to clear up confusion, the Thinkpad you linked is an older model. There is a new one with the Elite processor OP talked about.

From everything I can tell though, Lenovo has been very active getting Linux ready for ARM Thinkpads, so I’d assume it could be coming soon.

Yeah, I love Linux and would use it on everything if I could, but the bottom line is, it’s cheaper to pay Microsoft for something that “just works” with the literal decades old software businesses have used without major issue than it would be to help fund development for a Linux based version.

It’s not fair, it’s not right, and you could probably make an argument that it’s not ethical, but the fact of the matter is, Windows does work. It’s got a whole boatload of quirks and every day I wonder why I hate myself so much that I chose a career that involves working on Windows so much, but it does do its job.

Plus, I know Canonical isn’t the most popular company either, but do people think them, Redhat, SUSE, and whatever other company isn’t out to make money?

I just came from another post where the user said they would love to switch from Windows and just needed someone to explain how to do it with a list of features and programs they always use and asking what the Linux equivalent would be.

They made the mistake of saying they needed Outlook for work and there was a commenter that basically said that that person was never going to like Linux and they needed to stay far away from it because the user “painted themselves into a corner.” The commenter even took the time to call it “Micro$oft” lol

Luckily for me I think I like her VP pick more than her! Keep him around all the time!

Absolutely it was better. But it’s hard to believe that Apple, who was a part of the USB-IF, didn’t know USB-C was in the works. My conspiracy theory is they knew an open standard was imminent and launched lightning to keep getting those MFI licensing checks and purposely made that long of a commitment strictly so, when regulators asked why they hadn’t switched to the new standard yet, they could say it was to “help the environment.”

And they promised to do so for at least 10 years.