HP hasn’t manufactured its calculators in decades, thanks to Carly Fiorina.

I got a perfect "off by 4" on the first try! I feel like I've accomplished something!

I open settings on my iPhone (settings!) and it says "Don't Miss 3 Free Months of Arcade" and a misleading notification red circle icon.

I agree. I'm running Windows 11 Arm on an Asus Zenbook A16 right now. Lighting fast. I'm typing this comment while I'm compiling code and having Claude analyze packets coming from Wireshark that's on this machine. It's got 18 cores and 48GB of integrated memory, great battery life, and an OLED screen for $1699

I run Linux in a VM and Docker on it, and WSL2. No problems with anything.

I don't see any ads. I turn a number of "intrusive" features off, but nothing is hacked; these are just settings you can switch off.

(I am running Pro, though.)

That's one of the laptops I've been sort of looking into.

Can you run stuff like hyprland, and the linux-version of ghostty on it? Not familiar with the state of WSL2.

I'm honestly happy just using linux, but that zenbook a16 is just better value than a panther lake or mac alternative with a similar spec (RAM and display quality mainly). So if WSL2 essentially lets me just treat it as a linux laptop, or a close enough approximation without any real downsides, then it might sway me.

My current desktop machine is a 24-core Xeon-3345 with 256GB of RAM and an Nvidia 5090. It still feels extremely fast, even though it's about 8 year old technology with a newer video card.

I'm not bothered by a lot of tech that other's object to. I'm fine with having an Alex in my house, a connected car, Microsoft Windows. But I can't imagine consenting to _this_. There's too much personal data the can inadvertently collect, and too little oversight with little upside for me.