From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Van L Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Suggestions for 1L computer to run Emacs 2019 Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 00:18:04 +1100 Message-ID: References: <86sgwx1wxh.fsf@zoho.eu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="7112"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (darwin) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 11 14:20:31 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 1gtBVf-0001ka-57 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2019 14:20:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50141 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gtBVd-0001Jv-RJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2019 08:20:29 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:54456) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gtBUf-0000um-Q2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2019 08:19:30 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gtBUd-0003di-SO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2019 08:19:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=49568 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gtBUd-0003d1-Ld for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2019 08:19:27 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gtBUa-0000UC-Uz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2019 14:19:24 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:a9RJkgo3FaaR0bspnQs+p5O52I8= 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:119335 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: > 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] > After the beige computer color period, the colorful G3 Mac had a ring pull the size of the 'o' in the 'ok' hand sign that you pull and the whole case opened as beautifully as a car's engine cover. But down. It might've been designed on their $15M Cray supercomputer. > 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. A different explanation might be that they wanted to shield the inner electronics from ESD or pin bends by the computer owner's wunderboy. > 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* (??). Apple receives the best consumer satisfaction ratings. That elite thing is like the n-word? rappers say niggas. > 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. All it takes is for them to hire a confederate or undercover spy and Apple is screwed. > 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? > They call it midnight cherry red. I think. The drama in the design of the original Tesla roadster is documented. : https://www.iot-store.com.au/products/cubietruck-plus-metal-allwinner-h8-cortex-a7-octa-core > You can always get a couple of POSCA pens or > put stickers on the casing, That's the convert a VW to Ferrari trick. There are photos. > or simply put the > computer out of sight. > Typing this, I don't see my RPi. Because it is > behind me :) Ah, but you know it is there and how it looks. -- © 2019 Van L gpg using EEF2 37E9 3840 0D5D 9183 251E 9830 384E 9683 B835 "What's so strange when you know that you're a Wizard at 3?" -Joni Mitchell