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The thought did cross my mind, yeah. I don’t think it’s quite sufficient evidence to make such a big conclusion, but both of these seem so conspicuous

a laptop that is literally cracked? :l

That makes me think of when TrueCrypt suddenly stopped being developed: https://www.techmonitor.ai/technology/cybersecurity/is-truecrypt-a-victim-of-hacking-4280447?cf-view

in their defense, it is marketed as a device that’s limited on purpose, though

It hasn’t really been a problem for me, but I like having a big display, especially for pdfs or comics. It’s also been great for character sheets for roleplaying games - especially since they get synced to the cloud, so I can always pull them out on my phone if I forget the tablet.

The interface, marketing and development all seem to be very focused on note taking and sketching, though. I’ve used it for drawing, but the exported files are kind of crap - IMO, the best way of exporting a drawing from ReMarkable is to lay the thing on a scanner. If you want high resolution, you zoom in on your drawing and scan it in pieces.

it is definitely too closed down, haven’t had those other experiences though, I’ve had my ReMarkable 2 for quite a few years now. Then again, I haven’t tried hacking at it

Being Norwegian it is my patriotic duty to shill for ReMarkable, it’s pretty good at being what it is.

It’s expensive, though.

people will be able to buy devices, but only devices that are so crappy they can’t run AI (or games) locally

thank you, I am giving you a smiley face back: :)

ah, duh, yeah - the share shrunk but the pie grew so it’s still a bit more cake

“real GDP per capita more than doubled in this time period which means consumer spending also doubled”

GDP measures a lot of things that are not consumer spending.

Yeah, I’ll have to work on my explanation there as well.

As I understand it, Matrix is a standard for doing Discord-like things (and other stuff as well, but never mind that), but it’s also an organization that hosts a service that follows that standard - you can make an account there, and use whatever client you like to join servers and do Discord-like things.

But anyone could host such a service, or make such clients, so a big tech firm could never fully own Matrix - in the same way that they can never fully own email.

Sound right?

Matrix seems pretty mature, and has screen sharing with audio?

yeah, I switched to Linux on my personal computers once I noticed ads in the start menu, my work computer has win11, though

dude, Notepad even has Copilot now

Pretty sure no type setter or graphic designer would use Word for anything else than making Word templates.

I don’t know that they want to, but as economic inequality increases it will happen. Without a middle class, there’s not much of a market for high-end bleeding edge gaming PCs