What's up with Microsoft Surface?
>>107683808Snapdragons suck and openai/copilot was doathe end.
>tablet with keyboard>Windows
Another coping strategy from failing to compete in the mobile market
>>107683824It's overpriced low quality slop. Windows is still awful on tablets and the AI slop over done and forced into everything.
>>107683808Nothing I quite liked mine. Still use it as a tv/plex computer. Used it about 4 years as my main device. Going on 9 years now. Used it for notes as well. But the price/performance might not be great and the keyboard is meh and flimsy. Might get it again after my M1 mac dies.
Windows aside can you actually do anything with the snapdragon X elite on linux like running local models that won't send all your conversations to mossad?
>>107683808It's an inferior iPad.
When I started my current job, the company relocated to a new big building reserved for entirely us, and a major retailer who is owned by the same people. After moving, initially it was a chaos when the company was growing really big but nobody had the mindset/skillset for operating like a real company. One day it happened, that a parcel had arrived, containing something like 5 surface computers. They weren't brand new, seemed like open box but the condition was virtually brand new. Because I handle tech for the company, they just handed it to me. I was confused, I didn't order this shit. I look at the label, it was meant to be delivered to another company, entirely unrelated to us and the address was near but not that near, probably a nigger delivery driver doing the bare minimum and signing it with a scribble. Initially I took it back to the warehouse and told them look this is not meant for us, take care of it. That was that, I thought. 3 months later, while I was looking for some shit I had ordered, it was missing but I started turning stones until I found the box where the surface machines were, it had for some reason been turned upside down so the label was not visible, it was by the trash but nobody had actually recycled them. I opened the box and realised holy shit, there are five of these with all the accessories. 3 months is so long that surveillance cameras are guaranteed to have no footage of them arriving. I realised then and there, that hey, these are mine now. There is no fucking way I'll return them, but I couldn't sell them either, which was my first instinct since it was not my first time selling stolen goods. Last time my then-employer matched the missing inventory to auctions I had made, I didn't predict they were able to find them but they were despite some counter-measures. Learning from last time, I decided I'll keep one and just sell the ones I have for a heavy discount to family and friends. So I sold them and made about $1k.
>>107683808My surface pro 7 was a great piece of hardware that helped me get through university. The screen tablet is great too. After I finished college I tried putting Linux on it, it gimps the screen tablet functionality and the cameras don't work and will likely forever be unsupported (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32518882). It was a shame since the fans whine horribly on Windows unlike on Linux which made me end up hating it. Like >>107683824 said I would not buy the new ones for those reasons unless you want a deprecated CleverBot machine. Even when I first got the device it had an issue for WiFi drivers for the first few months that clamped download speeds to 1mb/s. It was a great piece of hardware held back by software.
>>107683808It was really nice to touch at first but i have seen them used for a year and it's just awful.
>>107685309There is a linux project to get the touch screen functionality back though. Linux on surface I think the project is called.
>>107685626It gets the touch functionality working, but it doesn't work well. I tried and was disappointed, also see https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface/issues/1061. A wacom tablet on Linux works perfectly out of the box with libwacom and KDE which is what I ended up settling for.
>>107683808It's not that deep
>>107685293>Last time my then-employer matched the missing inventory to auctions I had madeare you black
>>107683808overpriced, but you can find them for half off or better after one year on marketplace/cl/ebay. If you buy this way they are an outstanding value. As far as I can tell they are the best-built windows machines. I have a 10 year old SP3 that still runs. Yeah the tablet functionality is gimmicky, but the dock is excellent and it's really nice to just set it up on the desk below your main monitor as a secondary display without a second keyboard getting in the way.I think the people who shit on surface are disingenuous and have never used one. This is the all-in-one device everyone has been bitching at Apple to turn the iPad into for fifteen years. If it's this good with Microsoft behind the wheel, imagine if someone more competent made an alternative.
>>107685902No, believe it or not, I'm white. I just have anti-social traits because I have an inability to feel remorse. I end up doing these crimes because they feel insignificant to me but they always get a strong reaction and I end up posting about these to piss off the people who categorically reject me.
