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You think heat and power management is a pointless goal? Technology should be made as a contribution to humanity. But it should also solve problems and make l
by frostwarrior 4y ago
You think heat and power management is a pointless goal?
Technology should be made as a contribution to humanity.
But it should also solve problems and make lives easier for its users. A thin and light laptop that consumes a fraction of power and generates a fraction of heat does exactly that.
I love FOSS for its contributions to humanity and its capability to be practical. But open hardware is often not. It's usually terribly expensive, very inconvenient or simply badly executed.
At some point, being blind to the advancements from a closed platform becomes being blind to people's needs and ending up lost in a cloud of ideology.
- fezfight 4y agoFOSS is great because great people supported it even when it did have, figuratively speaking, a big fan.
- frostwarrior 4y agoActually that's the opposite. Back then, an advantage of Linux against other Unixes was being able to run in a domestic IBM PC Clone. Which, at the time, was the "small fan computer" at least compared to big mainframes running commercial Unix
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- fezfight 4y agoI miss those days. I was quite young. Those IBM PC clones still look like the future to me. Heh. Cheers