coming from a school-issue Chromebook could get a great upgrade moving to these.

Good point, it looks to be way better than any Chromebook in terms of performance, build quality, etc.

This will certainly sell and will net Apple a lot of market share!

I would expect Apple to stop supporting those sooner than the Neo

Hopefully not! If Apple does cut off support, there’s always the option for Asahi Linux!

The amount of repairability is unheard of for Apple

It’s awesome! Due in part by EU legislation, as well as the Neo targeting the education segment, which values being able to replace parts that wear out over time easily, Apple didn’t secure the battery with glue, and the ports can be replaced too!

Oh wait, I think I misread. You have a Thunderbolt to HDMI, I read that as you suggesting to get a (pretty expensive) Thunderbolt adapter for somebody shopping for a Neo. Yes, any USB 3 adapter would work, not only TB.

The display of the Neo seems very similar to the one in the Air M1 (no notch, similar resolution), but with worse colour accuracy according to reviews. The M2 Air onwards had better displays (but with the notch)

As for battery life, real-world performance (not benchmarks, not “I used it for a day and it seems smooth”), and security updates, I’m not sure. The older M series Macbooks are still getting the latest MacOS updates, but I wonder how many the Neo will get given that it’s an iPhone chip…

10 out of 10 repairability rating by ifixit.

Note that it wasn’t a 10/10, it was 6/10. Still much better than previous Macs, and overall quite good :D

iFixit state that the main complaints are pentalobe screws, soldered RAM and storage, and it’s difficult to repair the keyboard.

https://www.ifixit.com/News/116152/macbook-neo-is-the-most-repairable-macbook-in-14-years

3. And the choice is either windows or Mac

I’m choosing the neo

Yeah, Windows is pretty bad these days.

Thankfully I’m only limited by budget and have no desire to let fine refurbished laptops languish. And I’m all onboard with Linux so I’ll be getting a refurb thinkpad instead.

Nice! Hope you have a good time with one of those :)

It’s better to use a separate password manager, since it’s an additional layer of security, as you must type in a master password or, if you configure it, use a hardware key/biometrics. Also, as others have said, you can use them in non-website logins too, so it’s more flexible!

Personally, I think Bitwarden is a pretty good option for most people. It’s cross-platform, and I think there is an option to self-host the server if you wish.

Another option, the one I use, is KeePass (XC on desktop, DX on Android, KeePassium on iOS), which stores passwords in a local database file, and you can use Syncthing to sync the contents of the database!

Cool, a transformer person!

I will not disagree, the Neo does look to have much better build quality than most laptops in its price range, as well as many outside of it.

As for the chipset, there will be tradeoffs. You can definitely get an older Ryzen 7000 series or Intel 13th gen for cheap. These will be quite a bit less efficient and have worse battery life, and the performance won’t be as good. But they don’t suffer from the limitations of being an iPhone chip, some will be better cooled, some have upgradeable memory/16GB ram option, and most will have better port selection (like HDMI, USB-A ports). The Neo’s A18 Pro is much better in some ways, but also a bit worse in many others.

Yes, it is true that Windows is pretty garbage now. I wouldn’t say 16GB is not enough for it though, even with all its bloat. But it is terrible, really bad indeed, hence why I happily run Linux and encourage others to do the same :D

Apple Silicon really is crazy though, no doubt about that.

A little off-topic, note that “i7”, “i5”, etc. aren’t too helpful when comparing CPUs, only between the specific generation.

It certainly will, and I have already heard that it was the best launch for Apple in a while!

And as for this fantasy of the Neo suddenly being unable to run on its 8GB of RAM, I expect to get a decade out of my 16 Pro Max

But the Macbook Neo is a laptop running desktop programs. Pretty different circumstances I would say. When the needs of the user changes (e.g. they do more work outside of the browser, run heavier programs, start to multitask), the 8GB ram will not be enough. Additionally, new MacOS updates are sure to slow the device down quite a bit, intentionally or unintentionally. The only option in Macland is to fork out double the cost for the Air (or more if you upgrade the storage, as you have said), and that is my main point.

As for the HDMI dongle, that isn’t entirely accurate. You just need a different cable. Get a Thunderbolt to HDMI cable.

Often times the cable is routed through into a little hole (e.g. if it’s a projector mounted on the ceiling) or is very long and already plugged in, so using your own cable is not always possible. Hence, adapter dongle. Another thing you might need to purchase, so it is worth considering given that many other laptops in this price segment do have HDMI ports. Also, neither USB-C port is Thunderbolt, so you are misremembering?

That’s a limitation of the A18 Pro chip

I didn’t say it wasn’t. The note on RAM followed when talking about the limitation of the chip being from an iPhone. Even so, it is still a big factor, as you have no option for 16GB besides buying a new laptop (where many laptops in this price segment have SODIMM memory so they do let you do that)

Summit does indeed support pfp changes! You go to the profile icon and select the gear to find Lemmy web preferences

Click the profile icon, and select the gear icon beside your user account. You have will see options to change stuff under Lemmy web preferences!

I use Summit too, and it’s awesome!

Because Facebook paid a lot of money to the courts to shift the blame from the social media companies (including themselves) to the operating system

I believe Heliboard has the option for installing multiple keyboard languages, and you can switch between them by holding down the spacebar. No idea how well the spellcheck works in Spanish though. For me, using the Portuguese keyboard seems to work well, and spellcheck looks okay. Note that I have only had a few lessons in Portuguese and haven’t touched it since so I only know counting to ten and a couple other things, so I haven’t used it for a long period to fully judge how well it works.

Olá, um dóis três quatro cinco seis sete oito nove dez

OH I did not know you could swiped the backspace key on Heliboard. That is so useful! Thanks internet person!

Yeah, Heliboard is awesome. I fell in love with it because it is so ridiculously customisable, like you can change the position of all the symbol keys, the padding, the icons, everything! I also liked that there was an option to have it fit with my Material You theme (but it’s disabled by default, which I think is good for people who don’t like it)

I also like that you can set the option so that swiping up-down or left-right on the spacebar can be set to anything. For me, I just have it move the typing cursor around, but you can configure it to do other stuff too!

Luna, our moon, is the 5th largest moon in the Solar System. Still quite impressive given the size of Earth compared to the Jovian planets. The largest four are Ganymede, Titan, Callisto, and Io. Both Ganymede and Titan are larger than the planet Mercury, which is quite interesting indeed, and Titan also has a dense atmosphere, the only moon with one of those! Callisto is a bit smaller and Mercury but still mightly large, and it has plenty of cool craters on its surface, Wikipedia says they are the oldest in the Solar System. Io is potato-coloured and is very volcanic, and everyone knows volcanoes are cool. Wikipedia says it’s also the densest satellite in the Solar System with the strongest surface gravity!

I will say, even with the Chinese ROM, I feel like I can use so much more software and have better access to my device than my old iPhone. For one, I can connect the USB with my computer and share files quickly, and F-Droid has so many cool apps that work, and in many cases look, awesome! Being able to use different default apps, use a different launcher, and customise the icons easily with an icon pack (Apple’s sorry excuse for icon theming isn’t all that great, all you get is either a glassy colour or glassy glass)

Using a Vivo smartphone (the Chinese ROM) for its good cameras (once you disable all the AI “enhancements” to the zoom that makes it all look like a messy oil painting). The OS spin is, in a word, pretty garbage. There’s unfortunately no LineageOS support for my device it seems like.

It’s got some neat features, but there’s a whitelist for SMS apps, meaning I was stuck with the stock one. Additionally, it pops up a security warning whenever you install any app that isn’t verified by Vivo, but it doesn’t hamper my ability to install apps from F-Droid and Obtainium too much.

Using NextDNS with a few blocklists shows that it phones home to Vivo constantly, Vivo-related links are far and above blocked by NextDNS over anything else on my devices. Not very good for privacy, like at all. It also tells me off for having private DNS and assumes that it’s the problem whenever there’s a change in the network connection.

I am currently using the Kvaesitso launcher (and I know many like Lawnchair, but I favour the more efficient search-based interface of Kvaesitso) and for a long while it randomly switched me back to the stock launcher. The swipe up gesture also sent me to the home launcher like Kvaesitso was running as an app. It turns out that there’s a hidden option in settings to disable that, but it took a lot of looking around online to figure that out. With Kvaesitso, much of the oddities of OriginOS work out better (like the advertisements and Baidu results in the global search). I also disabled the “Origin Island” since it only worked for Spotify and nothing else I used, as well as a few other bits that I didn’t really need.

If you want a neat phone that is good for user privacy and all that, Chinese ROM phones aren’t the way to go, but dang the camera hardware run circles around anything Apple and Samsung can produce. If you want something that supports custom ROMs, there’s of course Fairphones, which are super repairable and use fair materials and labour, but there’s plenty of other devices that support LineageOS, iodeOS, e/OS, etc. If you really want to become independent of Google you could also try a phone that supports mobile Linux (like the OnePlus 6)

I do have photos backed up with Immich, and it works quite well!

I have implemented argparse, and it’s pretty neat I think! Now much of the information that might not always be useful (e.g. number of weeks in the month) only shows up with the verbose -v tag, and you can also print out the entire calendar year with the -y tag!