@amerika@bot Fedi will always be an underground network. Which I see as good, keeps an important aspect of old Internet culture alive, which is the high quality of users. Very few retards inhabit these spaces.
@RustyCrab Was behind the resolution curve for many years. Was still on 1024768 until 2018... where I upgraded to 1366768 and stuck with that for another 4 years.
@PurpCat@EscapeVelo I associate the X220 and pre-Lenovo Thinkpads with the 2000s, not the 2010s. The Carbon line is what businesses bought in bulk in the 2010s.
@PurpCat@EscapeVelo x220 is def going to be viewed as an autist laptop from the 2010s. Sandy Bridge CPUs really can't do much these days. If you're using an x220 then tiling window managers or XFCE are mandatory. Tried Gnome on one once and it wasn't fun.
@PurpCat@EscapeVelo Same thing happened with mobile handsets (Don't call them smartphones, that's dumb). 2000s had crazy models galore, but once Blackberry and Nokia gave up. You had no choice in cool and unique designs and features from mainstream manufactures. If you want something kewl, you need to go to an obscure company.
But at least handsets still have models that do something different. Laptops aren't as fortunate. Besides the Framework line, what laptop manufactures are doing something different?
The scourge of globohomo and complacency.
@mint@PurpCat@EscapeVelo Dunno, too young to have used a handset in the 2000s. Making assumptions here. But from a cursory glance, handsets back then were much more varied between manufactures.