• @Valmond
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      26 days ago

      Yeah, feels like a 1100€ raspberry, sorry.

        • @Valmond
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          16 days ago

          Especially a 12" one…

          I mean it’s nice but 1100€? That’s just quite very very expensive IMO for something maybe less good than a T480.

            • @Valmond
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              26 days ago

              Well go ahead and buy one then, actually you can have mine too mr economist.

              “It’s the fault of not everyone buying it!”

              What a curious take.

    • Shifty EyesOP
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      26 days ago

      Ha those were fun! I had one and it became the dedicated Pandora music player for the kitchen for a few years.

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      26 days ago

      Yeah I’m pretty excited about that, even if the layout is a bit wonky and the key sizes are a one-off (the left and right most fat “1u” keys look more like 1.25u so it might be a bit hard to get a custom keycap set going for it.

  • @TheGrandNagus
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    It’s nice seeing an open source, modular laptop where it appears they actually tried to make it usable, rather than being the size of a large briefcase and weighing 5kg.

  • @[email protected]
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    207 days ago

    Very cool! To me, this is more of an enthusiast laptop compared to something like the Framework. But I love the idea! The batteries being replaceable cells (and not a proprietary pack) is killer!

    The only thing that I’d worry about is whether the company has staying power.

    • ProdigalFrogM
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      97 days ago

      MNT has been around for while, their first laptop came out in 2019.

        • ProdigalFrogM
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          67 days ago

          Their first laptop was very niche, as it was quite expensive while also being quite slow and a little clunky, so news of it mostly just circulated around open-source and hacker/maker type communities. This new one looks to be much more slick in comparison.

    • @Valmond
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      46 days ago

      Found the guy overbuying RAM guys!

        • @[email protected]
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          16 days ago

          Yeah, that would be too hard.

          I have 64GB RAM rn and there are only a select few cases in which I use more than 16GB.

          Most of the time, it is ~10GB.
          I have given 8GB to a VM and even that tends to be used only ~2GB (of course not Windows).

          • @[email protected]
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            26 days ago

            I’m using Qubes right now and at 21G used.

            It goes up a lot if you use vaults for passwords and GPG, separate qube for mail, and separate Qubes for each of your clients.

            If you’re only using 10G, you probably don’t have much compartmentalization in your setup

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              Yeah, I just tend to do one thing at a time.
              Wine is in a separate installation, without mails, payments etc,
              When doing payments or other stuff expecting security, I shut down the VM. Memory sharing, copy-paste, shared folders etc. is disabled.