Not that many it seems… Ignoring extremely pricey ones, I could find the Lenovo ThinkVision E65 LFD for what converts to 1200 USD in a local shop. And even that is not really price competitive.

HDMI has never been an open standard (to the best of my understanding anyway). You’ve always needed to be an adopter or a member of HDMI forum to get the latest (or future) specs. So it’s not like they’ve just rejected a new idea.

Okay not publishing the spec is still the same, but something else is new nonetheless.

AMD is an adopter*, they have the spec and they implemented a driver for 2.1 intended to be open sourced in Linux. But they were still blocked from publishing it. For HDMI 1.4 that wasn’t an issue yet from what I’ve found (though it’s always hard to search for non-existence). Open source implementations of HDMI 1.4, even in hardware description languages, seem to exist.

*you can search for “ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES” here to confirm for yourself

shaped to look like a bone

I hope you mean wing otherwise that makes even less sense to me

When riding trains I look at the concrete cable canal running along the tracks thinking about whether we rent any fibers in that one or not.

I must have a weird sample then. My uncle specifically wants that because he doesn’t want to have a separate phone. So he has a Galaxy Tablet. And a colleague at work recently inquired how she would log in to the phone company website to charge the prepaid plan if she can’t get the login SMS.

MacBooks are pretty practical. ARM laptops like MacBooks have genuinely ridiculously good battery life; I was genuinely shocked the first time I used one.

Yeah agreed, have one at work. I just really dislike their software.

iPads cant even send SMS or make calls. The most gimped of tablets.

The rest of your list seems reasonable

That was actually preinstalled by IT at my workplace! It’s a pretty nice little archiver. Seconded.

I get 6-7, and I like to get 7.

6 and later a 30min nap is also good, but the nap isn’t always that well compatible with work. I do that quite often in summer when it’s too hot to sleep very well and I’m working from home.

Should be sleeping now, but the clock change from UTC+2 to UTC+1 is throwing me off at the moment.

To make the desktop experience bearable: AltTab, Forklift, Rectangle, Ukelele, MonitorControl, Amphetamine, Firefox, Thunderbird, qView and duti to set the latter three up as the defaults.

As a package manager I’m pretty happy with nix-darwin, now I get all the CLI tools there, and what isn’t packaged, like wireshark for example, I get through my nix-controlled homebrew.

Coming from a Linux userland you might want to replace some coreutil packages with their GNU variants. I ran into one case where the GNU grep was much faster than the BSD version preinstalled in macOS for example.

What I haven’t found a good solution to yet is Filesystem support. Both NTFS and ext4 are missing. I currently have a Linux VM just for that. I think Paragon sells a driver, have been meaning to look into it more, but haven’t.

Edit: To be fair to macOS the App called Preview is a pretty good PDF reader in my view.

PS: If you ever need to use dd on macOS, be aware that there are /dev/rdisk handles instead of /dev/disk for the un-buffered access. Its significantly faster for dd shoveling.

PPS: You will probably have to turn off what they call “natural” scroll. macOS inverts the default for some reason.

He seems to be in limbo regarding that… From the article:

An Arizona school district has barred a teenage boy from boys’ sports teams, gym classes, and facilities

She said that the district also removed Laker from an all-boys gym class and have mandated that he use a separate restroom.

Sounds to me like he gets to use neither.

It’s worth reading the entire article by the way. The fuckery in the details makes it worse.

when I look at Gnome I don’t doubt for a second where I want to be

Yeah me neither, from the other side, lol

I’m also not familiar with how these things work. But it looks like the problematic commit was reverted:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=765f253e28909f161b0211f85cf0431cfee7d6df

Hokkaidō ist die nord-östliche grosse Insel von Japan, die zweitgrösste, aber weniger dicht besiedelt weils da echt kalt wird.

Da gibts bestimmt neben den Kürbissen noch eine Menge Sachen die den Namen der Insal als Namensbestandteil tragen. Zum Beispiel die Hunderasse, oder die Hokkaidomilch. Ich denke da musst du dich dran gewöhnen :-)

I think admitting it was an attempt at a false flag operation is the last thing such an operative would do if captured…

And Diosdado Cabello is not the most trustworthy figure.

Here is part of the original live announcement: https://videos.telesurtv.net/es/content/360738

I could only find a long version on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVfXTDKrrHs with a kind of bad English dub.

Wow first I hear of an issuer doing that, that sucks

All these naysaysers in the comments here… It’s obvious you have to keep the development pipeline moving. Just because we have one free codec at the stage of hardware support now does not mean the world can stop. There are always multiple codecs out there at various stages of adoption, that’s just normal.

Are there any advantages that are worth it for that budget range?

The only one I know of so far was short DDR traces and a reduction to two slots for extreme memory overclocking.

It seems to me that mini ITX is small enough to cost a little bit more. The cheapest seem to be micro ATX boards.

Sorry for the unfamiliar platform, but here’s a comparison I recently made for a friend looking to build a computer around the AM5 socket.

mini ITX: https://www.toppreise.ch/produktsuche/Computer-Zubehoer/PC-Komponenten/Mainboards/Mainboards-c140?sfh=oi~ongff605x18%3Asv98303%3A%3Aongff604x18%3Asv98483.sv112289%3A%3Aongff639x18%3Asv12534%2Bs~pa%2Be~1

micro ATX: https://www.toppreise.ch/produktsuche/Computer-Zubehoer/PC-Komponenten/Mainboards/Mainboards-c140?sfh=oi~ongff605x18%3Asv98303%3A%3Aongff604x18%3Asv98483.sv112289%3A%3Aongff639x18%3Asv8428%2Bs~pa%2Be~1

1 CHF = 1.25 USD, but of course prices are different across the continents, so a direct comparison would be difficult. I just hope the fundamental price difference between sizes holds globally.

I think the big negative is that you can’t keep anything, even when just one aspect if the micro PC really needs an upgrade.

If I were you I’d try to build a cheap computer around the AM5 socket, using the PSU and Case you already have. Then you have a way forward open.