From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Suggestions for 1L computer to run Emacs 2019 Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2019 04:07:54 +0100 Message-ID: <86sgwx1wxh.fsf@zoho.eu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="20611"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Cc: Henk Pelgrom , Greger Eriksson , Kiki Alfredsson To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 09 04:08:57 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gsJ0j-00059Y-1G for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2019 04:08:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38775 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gsJ0h-0000Wm-Vd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Feb 2019 22:08:55 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:38741) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gsIzx-0000Wb-2D for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Feb 2019 22:08:09 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gsIzv-0004Ux-J1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Feb 2019 22:08:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=33298 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gsIzv-0004UF-8f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Feb 2019 22:08:07 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gsIzr-0003wd-R2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2019 04:08:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:UxzciOn2GS9V0WLaq0dRx30UCRw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:119298 Archived-At: Van L wrote: > If, indeed, Apple does privacy protection > from the likes of AMI, Apple's justification > for wanting to protect "their" devices > is understandable. Apple has always been like that. When they did some early version of their Mac, they even did a new, unique tool in-house so that it would be impossible to open and get inside the computer even with standard wrenches from the hardware store! [1] They do it because of an underlying philosophy that people who buy their stuff should be consumers and nothing else. Obviously this makes sense for Apple, who want people to buy their stuff, again and again. But the amazing thing is that despite this attitude, which clearly puts the consumer at the lowest point in the tech hierarchy, their marketing has fooled the Apple buyers into thinking themselves as *an elite* (??). For this scam to work, they must always be made to pay much more for their stuff than everyone else, which, again, works great for Apple. So Apple did really, really good. Don't hate the player - hate the game. > It could be made to fit if it doesn't, but to > see it everyday as an unattractive object for 5 > or 10 years would be very, very depressing like > wearing the nose on the earliest model Tesla > roadster. (One was thrown in space and the nose > was framed out from the viewing angles.) What's wrong with the way it looks? I don't like the red color (looks like blood) but apart from that what's not to like? https://www.google.com/search?site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1024&bih=656&q=cubietruck You can always get a couple of POSCA pens or put stickers on the casing, or simply put the computer out of sight. Typing this, I don't see my RPi. Because it is behind me :) [1] @book{iwoz, author = {Steve Wozniak}, ISBN = 0393061434, publisher = {Norton \& Company}, title = {iWoz}, year = 2006 } -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573