Thanks - I don’t really want to pay the memory premium for the pro…

Thanks - that’s helpful. What’s your go-to for a linux laptop that has the build quality of Apple?

Oh - yes - sorry - I’m not interested in the AI series. Should have said that.

They don’t provide any useful info.

fair - I agree ;)

OK sure - if we’re being strict and academic about this - perhaps it would be more accurate for me to say that capitalism in the pure platonic sense doesn’t really exist, and tends always towards crony or state capitalism where the power of the state is used to funnel money and power towards the holders of capital rather than to provide a free and fair playing field for economic actors.

Yes it is - capitalism demands that in fact. You’re thinking of free-markets. Capitalism inevitably destroys free markets.

Sony? Doing something awful? Who’d have thought it?

Well - kind of yes - Congress’s role is to shut down shit like this - they didn’t do that.