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I know many people without a laptop or desktop at home. They don't find it strange. I can't imagine not having at least a laptop in my life.

I know someone exactly like that. He runs a very profitable side business (reselling) using only his smartphone to take pictures, upload them, message customers, emails etc. I'm always baffled how he doesn't at least have some small laptop to help him type out stuff when needed, but he's doing just fine.

This is the reason why I allow certain mac addresses to communicate outside of my house. SonicWall makes it easy.

These TVs will connect to any open wifi and upload your data - your firewall only works for your network.

> SonicWall makes it easy.

This might be the first time I've ever seen anyone say something even slightly positive about SonicWall.


This page must be one of the worst product image and video displays I've ever seen. Videos are probably for ultra-ADHD Gen Z kids.

How is that possible? Did you use extreme pressure that penetrated your gums? I use Waterpik every day, and my teeth are cleaner than ever.

Just a guess but perhaps what is in the water may also make a difference

OpenClaw trend was like Pokémon Go from 2016. A bunch of mindless people followed a trend just because it was a trend.

Why the jab at Pokémon go? It was a really fun time at release

Fun until government contractors bought all the private data it collected with an unknown scope


Imho it say something about you that you see people that experiment with new things as "mindless people". I'll go search for my mind now, thanx.

Did they create test cases, wrote a protocol about the results?

Just trying something out and see what happens isn’t experimenting



"a test done in order to learn something or to discover if something works or is true"

A test has usually a hypothesis and a documented result.


Teenagers would experiment a lot less with sex and drugs, if that was the requirement ;)

(Or what would we call the thing the teenagers do?)


Would you call those teenagers mindful?

I a way yes, it is their duty to their future happiness to explore. No doubt some will not word it like that, but I met some that really do (and I envy them, I was indeed a bit mind/clue-less).

Fwiw, I call that experimenting.

And, perhaps in both cases, because they had fun with it?

mindful people as opposed to mindless people don't have fun, they are occupied with bringing value to shareholders /s

Funnily enough, that’s what I expect an Openclaw user to say

This article tells me the author is not that creative. With LLMs, the number of projects I create increases by 1000%.

I think that is the real bottleneck now. Creative people used to be hindered by execution, now you can aim higher.

So for you the point was going from A to B - for me the point is the process for going from A to B. We have different interests. It's not the number of projects - who cares - is the impact every project on you while you build it. At least for me.

I keep trying to get the product people I work with to do personal vibe coding and they haven’t yet. Feels like they should have more ideas than I do.

Being creative and creating things are not the same?

Isn't being creative a requirement to create things? The author complains that he can't do the basic things that LLMs now take care of. And I am saying that if you really have a creative mind, you can come up with 1000s of projects every day and enjoy bringing them to life very fast.

For example, I wanted to build my own note-taking app for a long time because I got sick of Obsidian. Now I built my own, and it is magnitudes better than Obsidian, at least to me and for my use. I built smart home systems with Claude because, without an LLM, it would be too time-consuming to troubleshoot APIs and read all the api documentation. I wanted to test a TTS model, and it took me 10 minutes waiting to test it without reading the documentation. I use it for everyday random creations all day long.

Instead of one tiny project consuming all my week, I can now work on all of them in hours. My /srv folder has over 100 projects of my own, and some of them are parent folders to smaller dependency projects.


Maybe don't buy the product with Windows on it? Without an operating system, people won't buy the laptops, and with Linux, the majority won't buy them. This is bs.

I wanted to pray for AMD to attack somehow but then I remembered their owner CEO's are cousins. Should we pray for Chinese GPUs?


These companies are naming their products worse than I was naming my half-baked software in the 90s as a junior developer.


They will just slow down the models even further. Anthropic is not up to this race.


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