Ok, my ports break out of use, have had pretty bad luck with USB-C charging ports on the thinkpads… Never been dropped but they just stop working… Then if out of warranty I start using another USB-c port… then that breaks…

Seeing a modular USB-c port is just absolutely fantastic…

I’m skeptical they will bother with the Razr, seems like a lot of work to intelligently use that external screen and Graphene probably doesn’t have the interest to do that. Would be happy to be proven wrong.

Motorola was kind of sluggish/selective about those, but they seem to pretty consistently have those features now. Always worth double checking.

I grant that Motorola may neglect to go top of the line (e.g. there’s no ‘flagship grade’ non-folding phone on offer right now), but price wise, at least in the US, it seems to be in line with other options and the cheaper options are generally motorola.

Is this US or elsewhere? What are the better value competition in the mid-lower range.

The modularity might be considered almost a gimmick of recessed USB-C accessories, so I would personally be happy with a device that leaves that outside the core chassis, so long as the chassis ports are at least as modular as this ThinkPad concept. No idea if those big empty areas are a serious liability structurally or not…

Even among shitty laptops, it’s always been keyboard, screen, or charging port as the things that break, not sure structural support matters too much on those fronts. I have had boards fail, but not due to physical events.

Note that ThinkPad and IdeaPad are practically different companies with how Lenovo acts.

Fully expect IdeaPads to continue to be shit. ThinkPad can do the most wondrous good stuff in the world and IdeaPad will stay garbage.

And yes, I went through the same exact maddeningly shitty keyboard replacement procedure. Never again IdeaPad, though ThinkPad has been fine.

Bonus points, ThinkPad brand never shipped Superfish, and most of the firmware security flaws have been IdeaPad side. It’s amazing how half-assed they are with that brand yet pretty competent with ThinkPad.

Well, good…

Though reparability is a good part of it, another would be a concrete commitment that the form factor of various things will be consistent generation to generation, that Gen 8 boards will fit into a current laptop.

Yes, but it’s still worth pointing out that the compromises run deeper than alternatives, including Apple’s own iPad Air.

Absolutely agree than phone socs can drive a viable experience, but it’s just still pricier even using iPad Air as a comparison.

Tab hoarding I would guess.

Good news: thanks to the AI Bros, PCs will probably have 8gb of ram and 256gb of nand too … isn’t progress grand?

Depends on if Fairphone wants to take security ‘seriously’ by Graphene OS opinion.

I don’t know the details of these specific folks, but sometimes a security team can be wholly unreasonable and advocate for breaking useful capabilities. E.g. there are some security folks that would say the entire possibility of unlocked bootloader is an unforgiveable security no-no. They can even argue with each other, I know a security team that says password managers are a no-no and humans should remember every credential that they would have otherwise put in a password manager, while most security folks would agree a password manager is totally worth it for using randomized passwords.

So I tend to reserve judgement on disagreements between a ‘security authority’ until I hear nuance of specifics on both sides. I could easily believe GrapheneOS wants some things that are fundamentally at odds with what Fairphone wants rather than just Fairphone being sloppy about it or something.

Actually LG made the Nexus 5, Moto did the Nexus 6, developed while Google owned Motorola and released a few weeks after Lenovo bought them.

Depending on your definition of ‘small’, your only hope might be if they did Razr and you used it folded up. That’s credibly small, though I don’t know if Graphene would be game for bothering to do that sort of multiple display work.

Lenovo/Moto is weird about that… The android phones and android tablets have next to nothing to do with each other.

I do have a couple of their tablets and like them well enough, but you might as well consider them an entirely different vendor versus the Moto phone part of the business.

Possible, but just not worth it. In their case it was barely underwater in some shallows. Go full Rapture without ADAM and it’s just untenable.

If it’s close enough for respectable latency, it’s close enough to experience drag. Given the maddeningly high power/cooling and resultant large surface area, then that satellite will have a tendency to incur re-entry.

So either close enough for “ok” latency but will burn up relatively soon or high enough to keep an orbit longer but terrible latency.

To put into perspective, each satellite that could only accommodate, at most, 2-3 servers would have a power and cooling burden greater than the entire international space station. For each 2-3 server unit, you have an ISS-magnitude power and cooling challenge. They would be looking to have hundreds of thousands of ISS-scale satellites in orbit…

Yes, ISS radiates heat to space. The total ISS power burden and by extension heat dissipation need is less than a lot of these GPU racks. They need big radiators just for that. Imagine ISS sized radiators per rack of equipment, how for apart the equipment would have to be, how much more mass cost for launch that is, etc etc…

Oh great, AI generated CSAM from space…

To add to your point about logistical nightmare, Microsoft tried an underwater datacenter. Even right there, just a little bit underwater was absolutely not worth it.

I love how his rationale is that manufacturers of natural gas generator parts are backordered o 2030, so instead of… I don’t know, spinning up more natural gas hardware or terrestial power generation, the easiest solution is to go from 11 attempts/0 successful launches of a space platform to tens of thousands of launches a year carrying unprecedented mass of bullshit into orbit…