[naitgacem]

Upon reading the title at first glance, I thought this was going to be how "effecient" computers nowadays. Such as MacBooks and such, who started this efficient computers thing in the recent times. And they are, but as a result computers are all worse off for it. I mean soldered RAMs and everything is a system on a chip.

[throwuxiytayq]

The existence of the Framework Laptop proves that this is largely an imaginary tradeoff, or at least one badly taken by Apple.

[naitgacem]

Unfortunately once one company does something and gets away with it, or makes even more money, everyone will follow.

I was looking at Thinkpads and was somewhat shocked to see they started doing that too!

[CooCooCaCha]

This is also why the libertarian solution to bad work environments “just leave” doesn’t work at scale.

[appendix-rock]

That wouldn’t be worthy of the front page of HN. “I don’t like the current tradeoffs that laptop manufacturers make” has been talked through to absolute death. It’s the opposite of interesting.

[throwuxiytayq]

If anything, there should be more space for this topic in our collective consciousness.