From 49e9e7a0586f07c60b1d5a0f8e773082ecc51162 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Allan=20Nordh=C3=B8y?= Date: Mon, 11 May 2020 21:03:09 +0000 Subject: REFORM blogpost --- _posts/_posts/2020-05-11-the-patricians-choice.md | 82 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 82 insertions(+) create mode 100644 _posts/_posts/2020-05-11-the-patricians-choice.md (limited to '_posts') diff --git a/_posts/_posts/2020-05-11-the-patricians-choice.md b/_posts/_posts/2020-05-11-the-patricians-choice.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..edaa867 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/_posts/2020-05-11-the-patricians-choice.md @@ -0,0 +1,82 @@ +--- +title: The patrician's choice +author: Allan Nordhøy +layout: single +permalink: /the-patricians-choice/ +excerpt: REFORM NOW. +categories: + - News +tags: + - Crowdfunder + - ARM + - gallery: + - url: /assets/images/36c3one.jpg + image_path: /assets/images/36c3one.jpg + - url: /assets/images/36c3two.jpg + image_path: /assets/images/36c3two.jpg + - url: /assets/images/ThinkPad555BJ.jpg.jpg + image_path: /assets/images/ThinkPad555BJ.jpg.jpg +--- + +Spiritually, this is a ThinkPad +in the way that ThinkPads used to be ThinkPads, +but are no longer, though in name only. + +Construction, quality, mechanical, tactility. + +It is a symphony of productivity. + +If Richard Sapper lived to see the day, +he would have wanted to use it. +It is an experience, that appreciation of an object +crafted with a laudable goal in mind. An assembled unity +that makes for a communicative nod between you and its +creator. You need not know who, because if you didn't already know, +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 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. +Well, I guess they just started making 'em like they used to. +You can get one for your children, and it doesn't matter if you havent got any yet. + +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, +putting together the parts, or taking them apart. + +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. +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 +without the hinge having moved. Productivity strikes. + +What kind of patrician has a trackball on their laptop? +You. -- cgit v1.2.3