Your problem is being tied to star’ing as a useful action.

Just bookmark the repo.

The HN thread responding to your T480 article is all that's needed to understand why it's not really a replacement for a MBP:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34878240

I never said I replaced an MBP with it, but okay, yeah, the build quality is not the same.

“Upgradable hardware on a laptop” is a loud minority.

I want open hardware. I want to know what’s running on my machine. I don’t really give two shits if the RAM is soldered because I will probably upgrade when (if) it becomes a problem.

Half the articles about Japanese culture are "off topic" yet rocket to the front page without issue.

i.e, on or off topic hasn't been the deciding factor on that for some time now. Pretty sure the rules even state that it's about "what people find interesting".

I think the politics of the USA becoming so entangled with the tech scene to be quite interesting, it's definitely not a phenomenon I expected to see given the ethos of the industry when I started my career in the early 2000s.

Seeing the support from the previous SV "rebels" for the demolition of US's institutions is interesting.

You’ve put your finger right on the issue.

A lot of people in tech today think politics is something “other” to tech. It’s the same kind of “we just make the thing, how it’s used, by whom, for what, and why is someone else’s problem” that pervades the likes of Meta Platforms Inc. With today’s technology industry, thinking like that is naive at best.

The worst of the worst tech bros and their earlier investors (like Marc A) created and have tried hard to spread that idea around. The goal is to keep politics out of the tech workforce so that they can meddle in politics without fighting multiple fronts.

You’re not supposed to say that though, for that’s saying the quiet part out loud. The sad thing is how many people buy it hook line and sinker.

Which isn’t to say you’re somehow wrong for wanting a safe space away from political discourse. It’s important not to forget how empowering silence and ignorance are to causes that typically undermine the rights of the populace.

> Which isn’t to say you’re somehow wrong for wanting a safe space away from political discourse. It’s important not to forget how empowering silence and ignorance are to causes that typically undermine the rights of the populace.

I feel like these two statements nearly contradict each other. Maybe the second sentence should have begun with "However,..."

Either way, I totally agree that apathy is enemy #1 and policies that enable censorship for any reason are enemy #2.

Your mistake is thinking you can be snarky and reduce my point to only the culture; we've certainly had articles about Japanese politics here.

You shouldn't use reqwest on mobile devices, you should be using the built-in platform-specific HTTP libraries.

On Android this appears to be less of an issue, but on iOS there's documentation floating around that you really want to use e.g NSURLSession for battery/radio reasons. Spotify even went so far as to write a cross-platform lib for this kind of thing some years back.

Dioxus has this idea stuck that it's webview only. They're actively working on (and ship at least in some form of alpha or beta) a native-renderer backend.

Iced is the Elm architecture. Dioxus is more akin to modern React/whatever you want to call it.

My comment was phrased badly, sorry.

That depended on your IRC server of choice.

I grew up on some where you got flamed very quickly if you didn’t clean that up (e.g Espernet).

Apple and Electron are similar topics that belong on that list.

They also still lack significant security improvements that Chrome has.