As I typed my comment, I realised someone would correct me with hyperspecific linux terminology. But I support your correction good sir.

For anyone else wondering, this is a X11 vs Wayland meme - i.e. desktop window managers. Yeah.

And I did. The issue is they put in a QR code for their own $800 500 GB SSD in the bios error message for when your SSD breaks.

My non-technical friend had no idea it’s an obscene price and may have bought it just to get his laptop working.

Most obvious comment ever. I wish this were the answer to everything, but its not,

If only life were that simple. Whose laptops am I going to buy?

Dell: Marks up replacement SSD prices by 10x (including the predatory behaviour of embedding QR codes to these in the bios to be shown in error states)

Apple: …

Lenovo: History of installing literal spyware

Microsoft: Bad products

I understand that’s the reason why they’re doing it - but what excuse can they give? I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised at the things consumers will endure - just look at literally everything apple does.

Can someone explain why there’s a cloud printing service involved here at all? We’ve been able to print over WiFi for a decade now.

Its Deus Ex time

CGP Grey is personally painful to me. He used to be a no-nonsense education youtube legend, but in the last few years he’s just maximised clickability - even going thorugh his whole back catalogue and changing titles and thumbnails.

For example, he made a great video about generative adversarial networks ~5 years ago but now its titled “How machines like ChatGPT learn” - despite coming out before GPT.