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  • frozenspinach@lemmy.mltoPrivacy@lemmy.mlProton Ditches Mastodon
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    1 month ago

    The reddit account has a username with the number 88 in binary, which led some to speculate its a nazi (88 = HH = Heil H*tler) dogwhistle, to which Andy Yen says its his year of birth 1988. Kinda weird, but he could just be that clueless, who knows

    I mean this part I give him a pass on. It was right for people reading him to raise an eyebrow, because political signalling like that does happen, especially in a context where he’s making comments like he made. But in this case it was just a nothingburger.

    It doesn’t make his “wasn’t intended to be a political comment” excuse any less gibberish though.


  • I have been defending Andy Yen’s idiotic comments because he’s not American and doesn’t understand the hyper-reactive nature between US Americans and US politics

    And I could see the point, kind of, even though it strained credulity on substance. He seemed more confused to me than die-hard partisan. But it’s really hard to square what was effectively a blanket statement endorsing R’s with his subsequent comment that it “was not intended to be a political statement” (paraphrase).




  • frozenspinach@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlAdvice for a Linux Laptop in 2025
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    1 month ago

    You said not a high budget, and yet everyone here is saying Framework even though the they are $900 to $1,000 at the low end. To me that is not budget.

    Pine64 is affordable but maybe too slow to be a daily driver, unless you feel confident finding your way through ultralightweight software and the command line and can do most of your problem solving that way.

    For other pre-built options, there’s Starlabs and System76 but those are similarly priced to Librem and Framework.

    Beyond that I might just research Windows laptops that are agreeable to being formatted.