From ec226e41598e857966aa8e19ed742807df87a12b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Antenore Gatta Date: Tue, 12 May 2020 00:46:48 +0200 Subject: Updating blog --- _posts/2020-05-11-the-patricians-choice.md | 82 +++++++++++++++++++++++ _posts/_posts/2020-05-11-the-patricians-choice.md | 82 ----------------------- 2 files changed, 82 insertions(+), 82 deletions(-) create mode 100644 _posts/2020-05-11-the-patricians-choice.md delete mode 100644 _posts/_posts/2020-05-11-the-patricians-choice.md (limited to '_posts') diff --git a/_posts/2020-05-11-the-patricians-choice.md b/_posts/2020-05-11-the-patricians-choice.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a5daebf --- /dev/null +++ b/_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 + image_path: /assets/images/ThinkPad555BJ.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. diff --git a/_posts/_posts/2020-05-11-the-patricians-choice.md b/_posts/_posts/2020-05-11-the-patricians-choice.md deleted file mode 100644 index edaa867..0000000 --- a/_posts/_posts/2020-05-11-the-patricians-choice.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,82 +0,0 @@ ---- -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