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It was really popular in Ukraine in the late '90s, before Internet became widely available. [Former point of 2:4614/1]

The Acers of the world can sleep well. The price of Neo in my country is about $810. Two months ago I purchased a brand new Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5 with an AMD 7533HS CPU, 14" OLED display, 32 GB DDR5 and 1 TB SSD for about $860. And it also has an unibody metal case. This Lenovo offers much better value for almost the same price, and you can install Linux on it.


Yeah, but K-to-12 edu customers don’t care for that and just want a keyboard with a screen with dead-simple admin options.


> K-to-12 edu customers don’t care for that and just want a keyboard with a screen with dead-simple admin options.

Which is why I highly doubt this is a play for the K-12 education space. Lots of school-owned chromebook repairs get done at the district level before making their way to the OEM for RMA/replacement. There's no way Apple is supporting that system, they'll want all repairs done under their roof. Not to mention MacOS adminware options lag behind what's built-into ChromeOS. Are you really gonna tell your severely-underpaid sysadmin to put 10,000 devices on Kandji? They'll walk into traffic before you finish speaking.


true, which is why chromebooks are almost ubiquitous in k-12, at least in the US. a mac, even for only $500, is still ~2x the price and lacks the management tools that Google Classroom provides


Interesting pricing differential. Seems in your country, that IdeaPad is significantly cheaper than the price in the US. But for your Macbook Neo, it's the other way around.

Wonder why that is.


No idea. Maybe Lenovo includes purchasing power in the price calculation for some reason, such as making more money in the U.S. while gaining market share here in Czechia, where purchasing power is lower. Apple may be able to afford not to do that.


It's good to know that at least some people in the US tech industry have integrity.


Of course it’s a Canadian, with a list of things I thought were just “basics” but are apparently extreme asks for some Americans.

How embarrassing and very sad.


For all those people complaining about it being e-waste: With such a relatively long battery life, you will probably lose/misplace the charging cable anyway, and that cable is probably more e-waste than the ring itself.


MC is a great file manager, but Far2l is even better.


Sorry, but this joke is stupid.


Not if you consider all the modern negative connotations of being called "white". Eastern Europe was under colonial rule (of Russian empire) up until 1980-90s.


Russians are Slavs too. They are the last remaining colonial empire and historically one of the worst bullies ever.

Poles are Slavs, and they colonized EE before Russians took over.

It's just a pointless subdivision within a pointless hierarchy.

Races as defined by Americans don't match skin color nor DNA proximity.

Skin color doesn't match DNA proximity.

And none of these map cleanly into "bully vs victim" subdivisions. Mostly because groups of people move from bullies to victims and back over time. People who systematically have the chance to bully others will eventually do that.


Doesn’t the word “white” obviously refer to the skin color? If you think it has to bring something about colonialism it’s probably because you have somewhat of a twisted perception of reality.


Not colonial rule, and not the Russian Empire...


You happen to be a Russian over 60, right?


No, just someone who is not a jingoist for an Eastern European country.

Though I'm sure Russian jingoists over 60 today too prefer to see Soviet-allied states as "their empire". It's no more true than saying Argentina was a US colony - which means yes, you could say it, but we'd all be dumber for thinking of it like that.


This is largely due to the Model Y refresh. March numbers are pretty strong, even in Europe. Not that I support his behavior, especially his position on Ukraine, but facts are facts.


If Tesla was production constrained, this would be significant. ~3 weeks less production in a quarter is a lot.

However, Tesla is not production constrained. There is essentially no delivery backlog for the new Model Y; essentially everybody that wanted one got one. Being able to make more cars in the quarter wouldn't have significantly affected deliveries.


Despite an upcharge, there was virtually no inventory and the regular priced versions won't launch until tomorrow (probably). Lots of people with orders weren't able to take delivery in March. Model Y was clearly supply constrained for the quarter.


The facts are that Tesla sales dropped even more in Europe than they did in the U.S. even after the Model Y refresh hit local markets.



I can't find the March numbers, care to share a source?


I think the older Model Ys with "normal" headlights were nicer looking, and they had turn signal and drive-select stalks.


Giving Ukraine all the weapons it needed and asked for, instead of destroying them soon, would be a good start. Also, you know, not forbidding Ukraine to use its long-range drones to damage Russia's oil industry would also be helpful. This is to get started. I can continue.


It worked, but this reply is pretty Basic


This series of puns has really been a gem so far, but it's going off the rails at this point


That's some perl clutching. :)


Yes, it can, and pretty well. In fact, it's my favorite feature and the reason I still wear my Pebble 24 hours a day - reliable alarms and notifications.


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