In the market for a new laptop or perhaps a Microsoft Surface-like tablet style system? Well, Star Labs have turned their StarLite laptop into a tablet.
I support linking the original site as a general rule, but I don’t think GamingOnLinux is blog spam. He curates information from a variety of places, provides a quick accessible summary, and very clearly links back to the article he’s referencing.
In this specific case, his table of specs is far more readable and accessible than the obnoxious advertising product page is.
Cleaning up the key points of an original source (especially a dumpster fire product ad page like that specifically designed to obscure relevant details behind nonsense formatting) isn’t spam.
I see no problem with starlabs.systems/pages/starlite-specification which is accessible from the hard to miss drop down menu at the top.
I have no opinion on whether this is blogspam, but the UX on that page is terrible (on mobile at least). I need to click to expand every section (9 times). And to make it worse, expanding one section collapses the others.
I support linking the original site as a general rule, but I don’t think GamingOnLinux is blog spam. He curates information from a variety of places, provides a quick accessible summary, and very clearly links back to the article he’s referencing.
In this specific case, his table of specs is far more readable and accessible than the obnoxious advertising product page is.
GamingOnLinux is the OMG!Ubuntu of Linux gaming, a website several link aggregators rightfully banned.
GOL does less summarizing of hard to read sources than Phoronix and even Phoronix is questionable lots of times.
If GOL does some original reporting: Fine. If GOL summarizes discussions from bug trackers and mailing lists: Fine.
If GOL just rewords content that right there in the original source: Blog spam.
I see no problem with https://starlabs.systems/pages/starlite-specification which is accessible from the hard to miss drop down menu at the top.
Cleaning up the key points of an original source (especially a dumpster fire product ad page like that specifically designed to obscure relevant details behind nonsense formatting) isn’t spam.
I have no opinion on whether this is blogspam, but the UX on that page is terrible (on mobile at least). I need to click to expand every section (9 times). And to make it worse, expanding one section collapses the others.
Would you like some fries with your salt?