From b105212655af791601f8be3454feeaa5150e2228 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Allan=20Nordh=C3=B8y?= Date: Mon, 11 May 2020 23:22:24 +0000 Subject: Link added, no Reddit spacing --- _posts/2020-05-11-the-patricians-choice.md | 18 ++++++------------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/_posts/2020-05-11-the-patricians-choice.md b/_posts/2020-05-11-the-patricians-choice.md index a5daebf..7dc8d2a 100644 --- a/_posts/2020-05-11-the-patricians-choice.md +++ b/_posts/2020-05-11-the-patricians-choice.md @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: The patrician's choice author: Allan Nordhøy layout: single permalink: /the-patricians-choice/ -excerpt: REFORM NOW. +excerpt: Reform now. categories: - News tags: @@ -18,11 +18,13 @@ gallery: image_path: /assets/images/ThinkPad555BJ.jpg --- -Spiritually, this is a ThinkPad +Construction, quality, mechanical, tactility. + +Spiritually, the [MNT Reform](https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/reform) is a ThinkPad in the way that ThinkPads used to be ThinkPads, but are no longer, though in name only. -Construction, quality, mechanical, tactility. +{% include gallery caption="Dragonbox Pyra at 36c3 for size" %} It is a symphony of productivity. @@ -37,11 +39,8 @@ now you know why. If it doesn't matter to you how, where, by whom, and from what things are made, then change that about yourself. If not, at least aim to land somewhere between the corporate cobblestones and -the suicide nets they put up. - -Sometimes one wishes everyone understood +the suicide nets they put up. Sometimes one wishes everyone understood the quality of something made to last; what once was. - You may not be old enough to remember trackballing laptops, if so at fault of the times we are in. Trackballs are still quietly superior, and clicky buttons still rule the day. @@ -52,9 +51,6 @@ It doesn't have lies, because it doesn't need lies. And where does it record your face? Nowhere. It is made with honesty, and with that in mind; Proprietary horseshit? No. Just no. Yes. Yes indeed. - -{% include gallery caption="Here it is hanging out with the Dragonbox Pyra at 36c3" %} - What a world it is to be bestowed the manifestation of every form-factor one could want. To parttake in it, be it by building your own, @@ -64,7 +60,6 @@ Imagine this, you don't have to deal with corporate nonsense, because it runs Linux|GNU, and as a Remmina user, you can close all other nonsense when you are done with it, and you are. Business is back in business. - You are at home, or where you want to be. It doesn't matter that ThinkPad quality went to shit. You have a trackball. @@ -72,7 +67,6 @@ Nothing matters when you have a trackball. The laptop reborn, from the cold dead hands of lesser men that tried to get their feeble and weak hands on them. - If some youngin tries to tell you it is not corporate policy to have one, appreciate its heft as it hits the small-minded individual in the head from afar. You need not worry, because chances are you can keep working away -- cgit v1.2.3