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I had a weird addiction to collecting Harley-Davidson dealer tshirts; I have about 20 or so, and say what you will about the brand itself or their image but their tshirts are pretty good. Nice thick cotton, really weighty, and pretty well-made.

Those alone would probably last me forever. I don’t wear them much, though.

Sounds super wasteful… It seems like the bigger the threat of climate change fucking up all of us the bigger the number of CEOs shooting shit into space and shitty “innovative” start-ups being founded

I know that the XPS is meant to be a prosumer product but I think the comparison is fair either way, mostly because you can actually buy both as a consumer. Dell doesn’t lock you out from buying a Latitude if you’re not an enterprise customer.

Latitudes aren’t sold at big box stores, that’s about the only difference the target audience makes to the general consumer.

The XPS cases are more durable than the latitude

Eh… Maybe? I worked plenty with Latitudes but never even used a XPS, but Latitudes aren’t bad build-wise. There are entry-level Precisions without dedicated graphics, and at least here in Germany they seem to be cheaper than comparable XPS-Laptops.

The latest XPS laptops really seem like they wanted to copy MacBook Pros from a few years ago with the touch function keys and the barren I/O.

I never really understood the purpose of the XPS line anyway. If you want performance, buy a Precision; if you want a light robust laptop with decent I/O, get a Latitude; if you want a MacBook, get a MacBook.

With that being said the new naming scheme feels like a joke. What’s wrong with recognisable model names?

While the IT infrastructure of some businesses over here is abysmal, most companies should at least have hardware recent enough to support Windows 11; especially if they’re otherwise entangled in the Microsoft monopoly ecosystem.

The Angry Beavers and Avatar The Last Airbender; even saw it when it premiered in Germany.

It’s a shame Nickelodeon switched to only producing iCarly-style sitcoms shortly afterwards… always hated those.

Interesting they would recommend that, I mean it’s pretty cool of them but they sell antivirus software that AFAIK is only available for Windows.

Almost like they care more about giving good advice than making money… Impossible.

He’s totally not doing it to get Trumpf to like him. He’s gonna get his own imaginary political role.

autistic noise sensitivity […] autistic people will be harmed

Being overly sensitive to noise isn’t exclusive to people with autism, nor is everyone on the spectrum sensitive to noise.

I was honestly on the fence of getting a MacBook recently as my first newly purchased Laptop, but ultimately decided against it.

Got a fully decked out ThinkPad P14s instead for about 1800€. Meanwhile the new M4 MacBook Pro starts at 1900€. But I agree that Macs still are good value compared other Apple products.

No it’s not? Literally just got a new passport and they didn’t say anything about digital passport

Who green lit this? I really hope that person gets fired immediately.

The lack of any visual link to ASUS isn’t even the biggest problem for me; it’s that ASUS rolls out a program that (presumably) puts itself in autostart by default and just pops up without prompt at all.

Edit: There’s a fucking setting in the BIOS to auto-install ASUS’ bullshit software? And it’s enabled by default… jesus fucking christ