Money is not. Some people are so poor, all they have is money. I came to the conclusion that we all are working drones, making the queens richer and were sent to other tribes to grab more riches. Be it war, competition, social ladder etc. Most if not the majority of people are totally uninteresting because they dont enrich your life and not theirs. Only a few stars exist in the youtube universe, as example. But millions of people chasing the same dream to become some important dude that people would remember in centuries. The opposite is the case. Today, everyone is sooo special, so interesting...its boring, to be frank. You can be happy if you make an income that will pay your meds, the future wheelchair and a comfy home.

As if people would not talk to each other or post such instructions elsewhere.... What a clumsy attempt to censor that. As if we now would love Microsoft for their shit and crap they produce since centuries. I only got a gaming machine running it here, all my private data will stay on another linux machine

>>Once hooked on heroin you need more heroin

No, you need your daily dosage you are used to. I was an addict for a short time and then went to rehab and never did it since 10 years. And yes, like you said, the demand is there. Every day and must be satisfied. Over here in europe, we have substitution clinics and doctors where you are given polamidon or subutex(dont know whats its called somewhere else) to get you from the streets and injecting doubtable mixtures and catch hepatitis and aids. But not all people qualify for that, so they still have to go to the streets. As an addict myself, i can say, it was dire living conditions, unemployment, the wrong friends and some more factors. Sure it was fun the first times, i used to consume alcohol, which is especially totally legal in bavaria(Oktoberfest) i use to live. Then, the streets are washed with drugs, people making a huge amount of money from it and replacing a decent job and income with drug dealing. But, there is help. I undergone rehab, now living a good life, can afford an exlusive hobby and got married. People that will use drugs are born every second on this earth ball. Times are changing, not every time for the better. We have crisis, wars and other shit while an elite group of people getting richer the same second every day and celebrating their success with cocaine that makes you think you were given the nobel prize at the same time you won the lottery. Especially coke is the drug of the wealthy and successful people, thats why the demand is high and everyone wants his bit of the cake....

I just watched the tragic hazard of a maritime vessel where the wreck was coated with gravel to hinder any further investigation. The captain of that ship was rescued, but disappeared and was never seen again. Also a passenger that survived, was declared dead by media despite having called its relatives the next day....

Switch the fucking thing off. You are not that important. Things can wait. The world turned many revolutions without such a thing. You dont profit, your boss and companies do, you pay with your health, money and more. Your kids dont get smarter, you spawn even dumber kids in the future.

Get your relatives and family out of this shithole and start a new life somewhere else. Why paying taxes for fat crooks? Why working your ass off for major companiel that dont pay taxes? I more and more understand people leaving their home country.

Yeah, go work in Asia for 30k/year or Europe for 100k/year.

Or goto Canada and pay even more than the U.S. in taxes and take-home much less.

Who wants these 500k/year salaries in the U.S. anyway?

If you are creating, producing or whatever as a one-man-show, forget it. The time you need for bookkeeping or fighting with non-paying customers, you cant be productive. A tax advisor is needed if you are VAT-taxable. Forget the ads showing people doing their taxes on their mobile phones. That is not possible.

But its used to create the illusion that linux can be used by typing handymen.

There are parts in the industry that are not meant for end users. I service copiers and printers. The fixing unit is not meant to be installed by a handyman, thats why you dont get to buy it. You can cook yourself, it works with 230V.... Toner and drum unit are sold to customers.

Respectfully, nothing about that applies to a laptop. This has been well proven over the years, that with good forethought and making parts available laptops can be highly repairable.

Don’t be ridiculous. I replaced screens on (old) Thinkpads and a Framework and it’s literally a 5 min job, no experience needed. Both have excellent repair documentation. With Framework you can replace any component in that time frame. No, really. Some years ago, with Thinkpads you didn’t even have to disassemble the machine for many components… eg. you pressed a button and the lappy ejected the hard drive.

I know quite a few non-techies who replaced their phone screens themselves. That’s been unexpected and impressive to me. Honestly, you can get unlucky, but in my experience, electronic components are surprisingly resistant to abuse.

Sure, if everything is soldered or glued down it‘s intentionally hard to self-service, but that’s also down to your consumer choices. There is nothing inherently unserviceable.

Take a look at the framework laptop for how accessible replacing parts on a laptop can be if you put even a little bit of effort into it. Most people are entirely capable of the manual dexterity, they just lack clear instructions, or things artificially require specialized equipment and software and more fiddly, difficult, and risky steps because it's either not a priority or it's actively a priority to discourage it.

So what you are saying, is that it is all designed to be impossible to fix without special equipment and exquisite motor skills?

Displays are absolutely end user repairable if the end user has experience. Allowing an end user to perform repairs shouldn't mean the repair should be doable by every single end-user.

If that was the case we wouldn't be allowed to replace AA batteries.

230VAC mains electrical fittings are openly sold in DIY shops in every country in the European Union without mass-cookings occurring as a result. This reeks of utterly unearned elitism.

Yep. I think pretty much every youngster gets some basic education (besides getting years of physics in high-school): disarm the group/fuse, double check with a power tester, make sure you are not causing any shorts. I don't know anyone who calls an electrician for replacing a light fitting, a power outlet, or light switches.

Besides that some European countries have required for decades that new houses/apartment have central residual-current circuit breakers for the whole house (unlike the US where as far as I understand they are only required in certain areas and are often in the socket and not centralized).

Can’t say I got any particular education, but honestly knowing it’s quite dangerous kinda pushes you in the right direction, if you’re not super dim, too. And usually you can call a parent or someone who knows what’s up, to get the instructions or help the first time.

I do that work almost every day. What if the untalented handyman crunches a live cable and the metallic frame is on fire? You can repair how and what you want, its your house and children.

>You can repair how and what you want, its your house and children.

They cannot.

>The device is also not repairable at all. I had an issue with my screen and they gave me a quote of ~200€+ to repair it. I'm sure I could fix it myself for a lot less, but no parts are available and no instructions.

If the metallic frame is on fire and the circuit breaker doesn't trigger when you turn on, then the manufacturer has some explaining to do.

Screw in a light bulb and you work with 230V and we still allow people to screw in their own light bulbs

What are the 5 safety guidelines?

Don't know, I just make sure there is no power.

"230VAC is dangerous, therefore it makes sense you cannot purchase a 12VDC laptop screen to install yourself"

Ever heard of the old displays with an inverter that produced around 700V? Can zap grandpa into the coffin... THats why they did not sell it to customers.

Everybody obviously works on a powered on laptop, with fully charged capacitors. With those capacitor delivering at leat 100mA to your heart for good measure.

It's like when people work on their car, they do it at highway speed, using a nacelle precariously balanced under the car, with the front wheels propped up on dollies for access.

And I'm sure that continuing that tradition into the laptop LCD era is similarly due to safety and not profit.

> Ever heard of the old displays with an inverter that produced around 700V?

...Are we talking about CRTs from like 20 years ago? What does that have to do with laptops?

Nobody is telling you to buy a new laptop. Same goes for software. If it's not for you then don't use it. It's all about choice. And the entire Linux ecosystem is not a single entity to "specialize on SAP or whatever". I suspect a large portion of SAP systems already run Linux anyway.

This sort of device is not really “the Linux world,” it is a company trying to provide Linux to people outside it; people who need pre-installs.

It is fine, and good of them to try, but if you don’t need it, you don’t need it.

You don't "have to" do anything, you can stay with the setup you're using right now just fine, I don't get the point of this post, you're fighting ghosts.

Or you could say they are "tilting at windmills".

> Why should i buy a new laptop because it holds another cpu doing the exact workload?

Long battery is pretty nice. And you don't have to be productive for 8 hours straight to feel the niceness.

Why not switch to Windows then? You'll of course have to chuck that perfectly finely working laptop when Windows 12 declares it obsolete, but such is life there.

I think you're confusing Microsoft and Apple. :-)

>Why should i buy a new laptop because it holds another cpu doing the exact workload?

Do you think that you are the center of the world and no product deserves to exist unless you have an immediate use for it?

I was pushing this into the marketing perspective. You are told what to buy...