Not for at least a year.

Unless the AI bubble pops it’s gonna take a while for manufacturers to expand their capacity. Some are purposely not expanding as much as they should to match the demand. Either out of greed, or possibly in case it pops so they don’t end up with oversupply again.

At the same time Linus is making questionable choices at best. Asking ChatGPT for distro advice may be the “normie” thing to do right now (although I’m not too sure about that), but it’s not the smart thing to do and it did lead him down a bad path.

I mean that’s kinda the point. They’re noobs, they don’t know what’s right from wrong. People who don’t know right from wrong are likely to go down the wrong path.

IMO Linux’s biggest issue with normal people uptake is choice. Normal people don’t want 7000 options. It also makes diagnosing problems all the more harder.

Sure, but the Mac Pro has always been like that. There was a wide gulf between the 32gb base mac pro and the 1.5TB version too. They’ve always covered from high end amateur to high end pro.

The Mac Studio isn’t aimed at normal consumers. It’s a Mac Pro without the expansion slots.

Yeah don’t use a magic eraser on anything that isn’t like a hard tile. Magic erasers are basically one step below sand paper. They will destroy the texture of plastic if you put any pressure on them. Soap and a towel go a long way. You could also use windex of any other light window cleaner. DO NOT use anything that contains ammonia.

Don’t use alcohol on the screen either. 70% or less is typically fine, but I’d stick to a very diluted mix. Like 50% or less. Google says store bought screen cleaners use Sodium Lauryl Sulfate or Cocamidopropyl Betaine. Idk how to buy those for myself, so I just stick with a teeny tiny touch of dish soap on a lightly damp towel or microfiber. Then follow it up with a dry micro fiber. The store bought stuff works wonders for cleaning the smudges that soap left behind.

Did you go to their parts website? They sell parts for even their shitty(er) laptops.

https://www.hp.com/us-en/parts-store/

And yet still not as serviceable/durable as older ThinkPads.

Uh, have you ever replaced the motherboard on older ThinkPads? You have to tear the entire machine apart and it’s a 30+ minute job. Around the time they removed the water spouts they switched to the bottom opening instead of top opening and replacing the main board went down to a 10 minute job. Even just replacing the thermal paste on some older machines required full disassembly.

They may not have water spouts that let you pour a gallon of water through the keyboard, but they do have plenty of plastic shields that prevent water from going further into the computer. If you knock over your soda your computer will probably be fine.

B2B had almost always been more profitable than selling to consumers. It’s so much easier to sell to 50 people than 50 million people.

Honestly I’m surprised it took this long for them to essentially give the middle finger to consumers. They kept hinting it, lifting a finger, but never fully extending it.

Yes, yes they are.

I’m not qualified to explain this well. But there’s the concept of velocity of money. The higher velocity that’s supposed to mean the economy is doing good. Generally it’s between lots of people so it’s spread out. In this case it’s only between a small handful of companies, and as soon as it starts drying up then bad things can happen really quickly.

We should just outlaw realtek. The world would be a better place.