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4. Only have to fold pants and shorts, and that's quick and easy

These are all good tips, but you can also buy hangers for pants that are faster than folding and don't leave a crease. I do no folding: shirts and pants go on hangers. Socks and underwear are just tossed in the drawer.

Perhaps you've forgotten that Amazon's business plan also required losing money by the truckload for the first several years they existed. Now, children grow up in a world where its laughable to think they might not have gotten the opportunity because investors were too afraid of the nebulous risk of backing a store that only does business online.

(in no particular order)

- Amazon Route 53: https://aws.amazon.com/route53...
- Google Cloud DNS: https://cloud.google.com/dns/
- Microsoft Azure DNS: https://azure.microsoft.com/en...

No idea what kind of DNS functionality you need, but there are also plenty other smaller players.

Something like this Dual Band Wi-Fi Range Extender, Repeater, Wall Plug w/ Ethernet Port.

Then run the IOT on the child network.

This is fascinating to watch. The 'fake news' meme itself is the disinformation (which has a specific definition, see the book "Disinformation" by Lt Gen Ion Mihao Pacepa - http://www.amazon.com/Disinfor...).

The US mainstream/legacy media disgraced itself with the recent coverage of the Presidential race. Their polls were way off because they oversampled members of one party (they oversampled Democrats by +8% and Hillary is up by +4% as a result, it told you who was actually ahead - and with high betting odds it was possible to win big), their suppression of the information about corruption and subversion of the DNC primary process, and their spinning of every situation to match their own particular worldview (instead of doing 'journalism' and presenting both sides objectively and trusting the reader to make their own conclusions).

Because the mainstream media did so poorly (with the exception of the LA Times whose polling was much more accurate than CNN, MSNC, Fox etc etc) and an overwhelming majority of people distrust them, they need a way to combat the alternative media sources that have sprung up 'Uber-like' to provide more accurate coverage. Hence, the mainstream media folks who propagate the actual 'fake news' coverage have only one card to play, and that is to accuse the less biased 'alternative media' as being the fake news sources. This 'fake news' meme is pure disinformation - and they think that Slashdotters are not smart enough to see straight through it ! But we can.

The mainstream media are doubling down on their smear tactics. They will do *anything* except do actual journalism and objectively tell all sides of a story. They will do anything except tell the truth - all the while smearing the alternative media who actually report much closer to the truth. No wonder smart people have stopped watching the mainstream media in droves and their revenue is plummeting as a result. To stop the slide they need to stop pushing their Narrative and start reporting objectively, but they will not. Hence, like all dinosaurs they will die under the evolutionary pressure of the democratization of information (amateurs who are more dedicated to the unvarnished truth than the legacy media are).

Chromebook pixel.

https://www.amazon.com/Super-G...

It can completely ditch chromeos, and run pure Linux.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/ind...

http://marksolters.com/program...

Like other Chromebooks, battery life is obscenely long.

It is a book. The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell, first published in 1970.

The author has a nice piece written on Amazon (the link above). Scroll down to "Editorial Reviews - From the Author". He basically says that he rehashed things he found in other books at the NYC public library. It was a good basis to start with, but it shouldn't have been the finished product.

It sounds like you're talking about all those random text files that have been in circulation for decades. Most of those are junk too, written by people who barely have a grasp of the subject material. I used to really enjoy reading them, and as my real-world experience grew, I realized how many of them were worthless noise.

And again, you're spewing lies that have been proven to be lies over and over again. Many studies have shown that there's very little to no election fraud that could be "fixed" by voter ID laws. There's real, actual election manipulation by people (Republicans) trying to prevent people from voting legally.

Rubbish. Election fraud is an ongoing problem.

A SAMPLING OF ELECTION FRAUD CASES FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY (pdf - open in new window)

Americans had Obamacare inflicted on them as due to election fraud resulting in the "election" of Senator Al Franken:

Rampant Voter Fraud Alleged In Minnesota

This fact is particularly explosive:

MVA found 941 ineligible felons who were allowed to vote in 2008 alone, exceeding the 312 vote margin separating DFL candidate Al Franken and GOP Sen. Norm Coleman after a grueling recount.

This is stunning. It was Franken’s razor-thin “victory” over incumbent Senator Norm Coleman that allowed the Democrats to ram Obamacare down the throats of the American people. If we assume that 80% of the 941 ineligible felons voted for Al Franken–a conservative assumption, as nearly all convicted felons are Democrats–then Franken’s victory is attributable to voter fraud. And the 941 ineligible votes are just a fraction of those that could have been identified if the Democratic Secretary of State had not stonewalled, refusing to turn over the full list of ineligible voters.

Poor and Disadvantaged are Most Likely to Have Their Vote Stolen

Someone ought to write a book. Oh, hey! Look at that! -- Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy

Amid Voter ID Battles, Here Are 7 Things the Government Requires IDs For

As federal courts wrestle with voter ID laws in several states just months before a national election, there is considerably less attention being brought to other constitutional rights that require ID.

Do you not care about citizens being able to exercise their rights other than voting?

Yes, there really are. https://aws.amazon.com/iot/ https://www.microsoft.com/en-u...

Just throwing some servers up doesn't scale to a billion devices. A secure connection is a very difficult process on a low-end "thing". There's lots of specialist problems still being solved.

Do you take your car to get fixed at the Sandwich shop?

Totally. They don't do a very good job on the car, granted, but The Cajun shrimp is excellent.

I have given up buying slaughtered tree books for quite a while now, no matter how elegant they may look on a coffee table. So if this is worth buying, it would have to be on my Kindle. Which brings me to the question - how much does the E-book version cost?

Not that I'd necessarily buy it - just curious! Apple has enough of my cash to date

You want to "read" a book with lots of detailed high-quality photos on an ebook reader? As for the price of ebooks for Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/Free-Electron-Lasers-1997-International-ebook/dp/B01DRWT1BG/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1479330071&sr=1-1&keywords=ebooks+for+kindle+for+free&refinements=p_n_feature_browse-bin%3A618073011 - only $325.26.

I have an Asus P8Z77-V Pro. What you have to do is insert the NVMe UEFI module into a bios image provided by your manufacturer (for i.e. bios updates.) If you do that, you don't need to do any kind of grub bootstrapping or anything like that.

Some motherboards normally won't flash a bios image that isn't signed (it's a safety feature,) and mine is one of those, so you have to take advantage of the failed flash recovery feature, in my case it was putting the bios image on a fat32 USB drive and pressing a button on the motherboard while the system powers on.

The URL somebody else posted outlines really well how all of this works, but the exact steps vary from motherboard to motherboard, and you can do it with almost any motherboard that supports PCI-e 2.0 or better (though you need 3.0 or better to take advantage of the speed offered by these SSDs.)

By the way, M.2 is literally just a small form factor PCI-e x4. Any adapter will work just as well as another, regardless of price, as it's basically just a shim. I paid $17 for mine on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d...

This doesn't seem like much of a risk.

Full disk encryption only protects your data.

Full disk encryption doesn't and can't protect the machine from someone who has physical access to your machine. Nothing really can.

If someone has physical access to your machine they could: Install a hardware keylogger like this https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004TUBOKW

Install malicious firmware (replace/extended the system EFI)

Install a malicious bootload (e.g. a hacked GRUB (since grub isn't and can't be protected by the full disk encryption)).

Full disk encryption is good, and should be used, but its users should understand, it only protects your data from theft, if your machine is powered off at the time of theft. If you machine is powered on and the decryption password has already been entered... then, well see this: http://www.businessinsider.com/ross-ulbricht-will-be-sentenced-soon--heres-how-he-was-arrested-2015-5

You machine can only be trusted if no one else has tampered with it.

Don't buy the Apple book, buy something that's a lot more reasonable and not so self indulgent:

Hip-Hop: A Cultural Odyssey (Hardcover)

It's only $7,777.02 for a new copy.

I'm guessing the the people writing and reading this story don't know anything about the coffee table book market. $300 is nothing.

There's something about a physical interface that I just never get with a touch-sensitive screen. I miss the clunk of the keys on the old Macs of the 1980s.

Well, you could always get an ADB to USB dongle... ;-)

On the Google Play Store I see "Unlock" apps sold all the time that work in conjunction with the free version to upgrade it to the full version.

e.g.

sleep as android
https://play.google.com/store/...

series guide x
https://play.google.com/store/...

Most of the crap games out there don't even have the possibility of a full version purchase.

e.g. official bust-a-move (aka puzzle bobble) on android https://www.amazon.com/TAITO-C...

I still want my MagSafe

Your want is Griffin's Command!

Oh, you're in favor of "true equality" but have no trouble tossing around the paranoid right wing's new favorite (and hurtful) acronym "SJW"?

You're just incredibly ignorant if you think that anyone using the term SJW is on the "paranoid right".

I've voted for Democrats for 24 years now. The only Republican's I've ever voted for was Clinton, all three times. Bill was a damn good Republican, and Hillary would have been OK.

But yes, I fucking hate the SJWs. I believe in equality, I believe in justice, but the SJWs just take out the lens of racism and sexism so often, that's all they see. The OP is right, and SJWs have turned into everything they hate.

I'll give you three examples. At my spouses workplace they have a fundraiser for charity where they eat Mexican food, and a couple of the leadership wear goofy sombreros. These are all very liberal people, and it happens to be a charity as well. This year a newly hired SJW got wind of the sombreros, and made a big stink of it because it's "racist". Right... these really left wing people who do everything they can to help others are just racists at heart. So of course they decide no sombreros this year... because why fight the crazy lady?

The other is a book I just started reading. It's called Language Police. It's about the experiences of a woman who served on a committee to find bias in school textbooks. The committee reviews texts for "bias", and rejects certain pasages. For instance, there was a passage about how peanuts were a nutritious food. Harmless right? Not exactly. They rejected the passage because it might upset children who are allergic to peanuts. Another story about Owls was rejected because a Navajo guy mentioned that Owls were considered evil or wrong in the Navajo culture. No, I'm not making this up, and it's not a crazy made up conspiracy written by a nutjob. It was written by Diane Ravitch, who was appointed by both George H.W. Bush, and Bill Clinton to serve in the Department of Education. Is that enough liberal bona-fides for you?

The third example is the crazy lady who wrote that piece in Rolling Stone about the UVA frat who (she falsely claimed) gang raped a woman during a frat initiation. It was all made up, and the SJW lady didn't bother to check her facts. She just lost that lawsuit for 20 million against Rolling Stone, and after having read the Wikipedia article on what went down (she's a serious, serious sufferer of confirmation bias, and "get the bad guys" syndrome), I have to say I'm very glad she lost. Read the article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Rape_on_Campus It's really quite shocking, and direct result of the SJW mentality and training. These sorts of people have this underlying need to "get 'em". It's extremely reminiscent of the right wing crazies.

This isn't a right wing conspiracy, it's happening. If you can't see that it's real, you're as blind as the alt-right is who thinks the Muslims are going to declare Sharia Law.

and I'm not trolling here. Ever read Bruce Sterling's Distraction"? This is why the left kinda lost their shit when the right started putting target signs over Hilary. If you're going to encourage a climate of violence you shouldn't be surprised when the violent pick up on what you're saying and run with it...

Also destroy your devices with hammer after you are done using them. The FBI can't backtrack you if you do this. You will be above the law, browsing child pornography, watching 'spirit cooking' video, and even selling states secrets. here is a few example of good hammer to get you started.

This, too, will pass.

Your cat will be fine, whether or not it dies a bit earlier than it otherwise would have.

The only problem, here, is that you are depressed. Sounds like you are spiraling down the serotonin gradient because your life lacks purpose (just a guess, based on what little you have revealed).

News flash: everybody's life lacks purpose. Or rather, some people make a big show of their short-term purposes and how fulfilling they are (which they really aren't, because all purposes are arbitrary and hence empty). Don't compare your life to theirs, theirs is just a lie they are presenting to you.

And don't be bothered by the lack of purpose; the belief that you need purpose to be happy is a sham. All you really need to be happy is regular facetime with a good friend (human, not cat), a self-cultivating hobby, and dis-identification from the illusion of self created by your thoughts (meditation, and such, doesn't have to be religious or full of new-age tripe, read this: The Unfolding Now). Some people think meditation is a very good purpose because it not only makes you sane, the mental health kinda rubs off on people around you, making the world a better place all-around.

Oh and if guilt is your issue the same advise applies. The meditation will help you stop needlessly punishing yourself so you can actually start doing something good again.

Slowing killing yourself with alcohol is an option, of course, but not a good one.

Can you recommend a good wireless Esc. key? TIA.

Sure - Logitech K811 bluetooth keyboard. I've got two, one at home, one at work, and they're fucking fabulous.

In addition to a standard ESC key, which comes on ANY standard keyboard, including the one on your new MacBook Pro (just because it's a "virtual" key doesn't mean it's not there), this keyboard can be paired with up to three devices and swap between them quickly with a simple keypress. In addition, it's small, lightweight, and has solid battery life, as well as a physical "off" switch which allows you to stretch the battery life even further.

Of course, you knew all this, but don't let that stop you from continuing to be a useless cunt.

No worries, here you go: https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk...

:) Temporarily Out of Stock

No worries, here you go: https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk...

Don't worry, Apple sell a USB A to USB C adapter. You can buy one for $19.00, or get nine for just $170.00!

Or you can get them for $2 or so on Amazon by the bushel-basketfull. For example, here's a 3-pack for $6. Even the high-end ones are only around $7 or so.

I'm ticked not only about the lack of USB-A ports, but that they're moving away from MagSafe power supplies. I LOVE that feature, and it has saved many a laptop of ours from damage as we have a rampaging standard poodle who does not respect power cords when we're sitting on the couch. My current laptop is a MBP 2011, I can't see me moving past the '14, which I think is the last year for MagSafe and SD card reader. Maybe I'll just keep my '11 and we'll see how long an SSD will keep it alive, then we'll see if Apple comes back to their senses or the ghost of Jobs returns to take over the company.

I'm surprised that Belkin or someone else hasn't made a C-to-MagSafe adapter for MacBook owners.

You mean like this one?

Support legacy USB-A connections? Sure. Just get a pair of compact adapters here or here for under $10.

And the MacBooks ports aren't just USB-C they are Thunderbolt-3 / USB-C.

Support legacy USB-A connections? Sure. Just get a pair of compact adapters here or here for under $10.

And the MacBooks ports aren't just USB-C they are Thunderbolt-3 / USB-C.

Do you want a bottle of tangle remover with that? https://www.amazon.com/gp/prod...
or perhaps a de-tangling comb?
https://www.amazon.com/gp/prod...

Do you want a bottle of tangle remover with that? https://www.amazon.com/gp/prod...
or perhaps a de-tangling comb?
https://www.amazon.com/gp/prod...

Let's also keep in mind, we don't have a collection of the contemporary saying of .... Genghis Khan-era Mongols.

Yes we do, you can buy it yourself today.

Just look at all these single accessory options that solve the entire problem of 'multiple dongles'. https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=n...

Apple wants.you to buy the bigger ssd laptop as it has higher profits. Bastards. Consumers.buy the cheapest and add a 128gb SD card.

And you are still free to do that. But now, it will read and write at USB-C speeds (IOW, it will be bound by the R/W speed of the card itself).

Personally, I'd purchase one of these with one of these for 1 TB of "storage expansion", though, for about the same price as a good quality 128 GB SD Card.

It will be some time before you can beat the cost of spinning-rust...

Apple wants.you to buy the bigger ssd laptop as it has higher profits. Bastards. Consumers.buy the cheapest and add a 128gb SD card.

And you are still free to do that. But now, it will read and write at USB-C speeds (IOW, it will be bound by the R/W speed of the card itself).

Personally, I'd purchase one of these with one of these for 1 TB of "storage expansion", though, for about the same price as a good quality 128 GB SD Card.

It will be some time before you can beat the cost of spinning-rust...

Well if I have a bunch of files to work on and move today it could be yes. Not to mention those USB-C with USB-A port thumb drives are about 3x the price of normal drives. But I guess money's no object to those buying these things anyway. The people buying them probably use $20 bills to light their artisanal firewood as well.

Well, I don't know where you looked, but here's a nice set of Kingston USB-C/USB-A Memory Sticks on Amazon for pretty much exactly what the USB-A 3.0 ones normally go for. This one is available from 16 GB to 128 GB, with the 32 GB version going for the princely sum of $14.99, and the 64 GB version for $21.99. Doesn't sound anything remotely like the "3x" that you stated...

And this is just during the "changeover" period. In a couple of years, almost ALL the new USB sticks will be USB-C by default.

Everyone wants change without change.

Sure they do. They're just not particularly useful in this case.

Except almost every time you purchase a micro-sd card, they come with at least 2 adapters, so the micro-sd can fit into both of those form-factors - although I've never actually seen a device that takes the "medium" form-factor. When I use SD cards in my laptop, they are invariably micro-sd in an SD housing - as microSD can work across all of my devices: MP3 Players (Sandisk, FiiO, Samsung Galaxy Player), Phone, Laptop, Nook.

It's also convenient to use SD+ Card Readers to quickly move information between laptops. cf. Transcend USB 3.0 SDHC / SDXC / microSDHC / SDXC Card Reader, TS-RDF5K (Black)

The SD-Slot is most useful for additional permanent on-device storage.

That's a terrible argument: they're not going to sacrifice a multi-billion dollar product line just to shovel out a few accessories. But if I were going to buy that kind of thing, I'd strongly consider something like this instead. This is where moving to USB-C is a clear win. Park this on your desk and plug your monitor and other accessories into it. Come to work, sit down, plug a single cable into your laptop, and get charging, video, and peripherals all at once.

An SD slot is a waste of space and circuitry for me. Same for an Ethernet jack - I haven't wanted to plug my laptop into a wired network in years. (Pre-empting the "but I need it....!" objections: great! Get an adapter and now you have it!) I'd missing having the USB-A jacks except that the new hub-as-a-charging-dock replacement is better in every single way that I care about. I think that by this time in 2017, all those various form factors will look like legacy dinosaurs.

And yes, I'd be saying the exact same thing if Lenovo or Dell were doing this. I think moving to a single do-everything port is an excellent idea and I hope the whole industry moves in this direction.

Here is a USB-C adapter which has SD and compact flash. It is $18. Kanex USB-C to SD Card Reader-Space Gray https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01C...

Not sure what the direct camera connection is, but there are USB and micro-USB cables for less than $15.

In a year these prices will be cut in half.

https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-Ze...

How about the Asus Zenpad S 8?
https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-Ze...
8" IPS Display (2048 x 1536) with ASUS TruVivid technology for better visual experience
Intel Atom Z3530 Super Quad-Core, 64bit, 1.3GHz
2G RAM, 32G Onboard Storage
5M/2M Dual Camera; 1 x microSD Card slot, support up to 128GB SDHC
Android 6.0 Marshmallow

Or the Nvidia Shield K1
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B017...

Powered by the NVIDIA Tegra K1 processor, featuring a 192-core NVIDIA Kepler GPU and 2.2 GHz quad-core CPU.
Full HD 1080p, 8-inch display, and dual-front facing speakers for incredible video and sound.
MicroSD slot provides expandable storage up to 128 GB.

https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-Ze...

How about the Asus Zenpad S 8?
https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-Ze...
8" IPS Display (2048 x 1536) with ASUS TruVivid technology for better visual experience
Intel Atom Z3530 Super Quad-Core, 64bit, 1.3GHz
2G RAM, 32G Onboard Storage
5M/2M Dual Camera; 1 x microSD Card slot, support up to 128GB SDHC
Android 6.0 Marshmallow

Or the Nvidia Shield K1
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B017...

Powered by the NVIDIA Tegra K1 processor, featuring a 192-core NVIDIA Kepler GPU and 2.2 GHz quad-core CPU.
Full HD 1080p, 8-inch display, and dual-front facing speakers for incredible video and sound.
MicroSD slot provides expandable storage up to 128 GB.

https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-Ze...

How about the Asus Zenpad S 8?
https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-Ze...
8" IPS Display (2048 x 1536) with ASUS TruVivid technology for better visual experience
Intel Atom Z3530 Super Quad-Core, 64bit, 1.3GHz
2G RAM, 32G Onboard Storage
5M/2M Dual Camera; 1 x microSD Card slot, support up to 128GB SDHC
Android 6.0 Marshmallow

Or the Nvidia Shield K1
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B017...

Powered by the NVIDIA Tegra K1 processor, featuring a 192-core NVIDIA Kepler GPU and 2.2 GHz quad-core CPU.
Full HD 1080p, 8-inch display, and dual-front facing speakers for incredible video and sound.
MicroSD slot provides expandable storage up to 128 GB.

Did I say that I need almost 2TB of RAM? Did anyone say that? And, by the way, the only way you can get one of those X1 class instances right now is by doing a reserved instance, which means you're agreeing to pay $4/hr for the next three years whether you use it or not. That's over $100k. Sounds like a fucking bargain in comparison to just buying several laptops with more RAM in it for $300 more each, especially since for the same cost we could buy 20 developers the top spec'd MacBook Pro every single year and save money compared to that single X1 host, which is still backed by slow EBS storage; any MacBook Pro from the last 3 years has better I/O than you will see from EBS, and probably by an order of magnitude.

Good job knocking the hell out of a straw man though. Here's what my devs want:

4-core laptop, at least 32GB RAM. Why? So they can run an Ubuntu app server VM that mirrors the production stack config, a DB host VM or container, and still have ample room for the IDE, multiple web browsers for testing, bloated Outlook email, etc.

It's no secret that every single database engine runs better with more memory, and is massively I/O bound if you don't have the RAM to cache the whole thing. They can currently do the above with 16GB of RAM but the database runs like crap, because the data set they are working with is ~200GB, and you can't cache very good when you only have somewhere around 8GB to 10GB of RAM to give the whole VM, much less the DB engine.

I work in AWS every day, I know what the instances are capable of, and I know what the shortfalls are. Sometimes there is no substitute for having a self contained development environment that doesn't require network connectivity in order to function.

So what am I missing? What is the actual benefit to separating heavy industry and people?

That it is really really easy to get things down into a gravity well.

In orbit? Just toss the package out the back fast enough and it comes down all on it's own. Take care to not hit anything on the way down.

Also, space colonization for real will the subject to huge limitations. Suppose you manufacture stuff in orbit and have the technology to ship it down to the ground. The landing process is the same technology for dropping a bomb anywhere with minutes notice from an effectively unreachable location. You don't even need bombs. Rods from God are a thing.

Governments have a long-term interest to ensure colonization - not industrial development - is slow, limited and guaranteed to align with their purposes. Space is the ultimate anti-government, anti-anyone position. Literally the high ground. Otherwise you'll get the plot of Heinlein's book, Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

But if you put heavy industry in space and most people still live on the ground, it takes an incredible amount of energy to get the raw resources into orbit and bring the finish products back down

Lifting anything into space to bring it back is a fool's errand. Look at how much of the Saturn V that went to the moon came back. Plenty of resources exist in space already to mine locally.

And without on-site captive customers...err, colonists, the economics dominate the situation. Industrialization is most likely to happen around the time that industrial jobs finish being taken by robots. That way you don't even need to ship messy old people with their huge life support systems. With enough resource scarcity to make market-wide recycling economic this would only be done for selected items anyway. Anything that can't be automated would be telepresence, keeping your workers and citizens safely in reach of the police and military.

You would always build wood stuff on the Earth. But if I could drop 10,000 custom-yet-completely-prefab concrete and aluminum houses, white goods and all, anywhere in 10 minutes (with clearance from traffic control) that could be a game changer for disaster relief or interesting for urban development.

But with any factory in a new area the problem is getting the first one up. Then you have the infrastructure to get many more much cheaper and quicker. Just look at how industrialization happened everywhere on the Earth.

the prime driver behind settling people on Mars is to provide a backup plan for humanity in the event of a planetwide catastrophe -- an asteroid strike, for example, or environmental ruin, or a species-killing pandemic.

As Kim Stanley Robinson proposed in his recent novel Aurora , the longterm survival of human biology might be inextricably dependent on Earth's ecosystem. Not just the sort of Earth-like features one can reproduce in an artificial habit for a few years, but the planet-wide scale that Earth offers. (In the novel, people on a generation starship discover that salt and other toxins start building up quickly in the smaller scale of their ship.) If humanity is going to survive, that looks like it can happen only if we transcend biology, and if the human race does start moving into machine bodies, then it might not be necessary to leave Earth after all — Vernor Vinge once mused that the reason we don't see other civilizations is because they moved themselves deep under planets' surface where even asteroid strikes wouldn't matter, and they now pass their time in virtual realities where life is easy and limitless instead of the hard work of interplanetary exploration.

"wifi cards"

Oh for fuck sake. Really? That's the vernacular you're getting panties in a twist about? Everyone I know (yourself aside) still calls them cards. An Amazon they're still sold as 'cards'.

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=n...

The point is that NO ONE needs a laptop with 4 hard drives

I'm curious as to what your solution to my use case problem is? 3 external hard drives? Carrying around a battery powered SAN array?

Just because you don't need or can't fathom how people can need more hard drives doesn't mean some people don't.

Not even you.

Tell me more about my use cases that you seem to know so much about. While you're at it why not build me what you think is the most perfect unicorn laptop.

Thank god I didn't mention using the Nvidia GPU for mobile CUDA development, I'm sure you'd have an opinion on how I didn't need that either.

HP Stream 11 (Violet Purple) is going for $178.91 brand new as of the time of this post.

https://www.amazon.com/Acer-Cl...

I bought 3 of these. 1.6 GHz Braswell Celeron N3050 processor, actually better than the new version that recently replaced it.

2GB DDR3 RAM, Ok that's just barely enough but it does work ok
32GB flash memory
This machine is totally silent, fanless and no hard drive. Well built with a good Intel 802.11ac wireless chip.

This was Microsoft's attempt to compete in the education market against Chromebooks. It failed because even 32 bit Windows 10 is too bulky to run well on this machine. I replaced Windows with 64 bit Ubuntu Linux using the XFCE desktop. I don't know if Unity will run on this machine but I don't like Unity anyway.

It's best to install Linux with the UEFI boot left in place. Ubuntu works ok with UEFI... you just have to follow the online instructions.

Or just get a god damn USB-C to Lightning cable and carry that in your laptop bag instead of the USB-to-Lightning cable you carry today? Or get this thing and get rid of many charging cables at once. Now you are carrying less shit - I did you a favor!

Talk about a non-problem. Some people are just never happy, and have to rage about something.

Anyone who's been a MacHead for more than a few years knows that you always try to avoid buying overpriced commodity add-ons from Apple; you buy them from Amazon, Newegg or the like. In this situation, for example, you might choose to just use your existing charging cable with a USB-C to USB3 adapter for $10, saving fifteen bucks over the Apple adapter cable.