But they deserve it when the manufacturer has one of those enterprisey sites where you need to go through 10 searches to maybe reach your manual, when the 3rd party site just shows it directly.
Not really, and the third-party sites almost never show the PDF directly without first trying to harvest your email or phone number or subscribe you to spam, sometimes they try to steer you towards unaffiliated 800 numbers tricking you that those are associated with the manufacturer, sometimes they bundle the download of manufacturer's PDF with malware, browser cleaner app installers etc.
Sometimes the third-party sites are helpful and benign, sometimes they are merely spammers trying to upsell you, occasionally they are malicious.
Agreed, the manufacturer site behavior is also annoying.
Full self-driving is 1000x more likely than AGI. There are all these maps, lines on the ground and signs; the roads don't wiggle like snakes, appear and disappear; and the other cars and obstacles don't suddenly change number, shape and physics.
I like the idea that mediocre sci-fi show Upload came up with: maybe they can get self-driving to the point where it doesn't require a human in the loop and a squirrel will work.
And a mouse, because non apple laptops are hard to use with just the trackpad.
And the huge power adapter for the "gaming" laptop.
... sadly, it means I'll have to stick to Apple hardware for longer. As much as I think Cook is an idiot who's trying to dumb their products down to the point they're not even usable for power users, let alone developers.
> And a mouse, because non apple laptops are hard to use with just the trackpad.
Have you ever used a Framework's trackpad? It's very good.
> And the huge power adapter for the "gaming" laptop.
First of all, Framework laptops are not gaming laptops. Second of all, Framework ships smaller power adapters than Apple because they invested in Gallium Nitride chargers which are significantly more compact than other options.
Personally, I wouldn't even carry around a power bank, I just mentioned it because the person I was talking to said they wanted to carry around a hot-swappable battery, and I thought a power bank was a better option.
> Have you ever used a Framework's trackpad? It's very good.
The hardware is the same in most quality laptops including Apple. It's something they do in the software that makes it far less annoying to go trackpad only on Mac OS.
I've actually bought a gaming laptop for someone this year. Asus. It comes with a brick proprietary charger that delivers the full power it can use and also with an USB PD that can't fully power it. Guess it works if not gaming, or gaming at reduced fps.
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