Framework 16 with a 7840HS and the RX 7700S GPU module. Quite happy, although it can get pretty loud under heavy load. The real benefits will come with time, of course, as the Framework's strengths are in repairability and upgradeability.
If you already have one critical high-wear component in your ship you probably don't want a second one, especially when both of them are security critical. The Federation might be essentially post-scarcity on a personal level but that doesn't mean their resources are unlimited. Also, time spent in dry dock is time not spent on missions.
My guess is that in the end ships don't travel with anything but navigational shields up for several of reasons:
It's usually not needed.
It's rude and makes it harder to solve things by diplomacy.
It reduces the ship's active time and wastes resources.
Depends on your keyboard layout. On Macintosh-like keyboards it can be as simple as AltGr+dash. On smartphone keyboards you can just long-press the dash.
On Windows you're expected to hold down Alt and enter some code.
Whichever one has no warnings in ToxFox¹. I am partial to Schwarzkopf's Nature Box line but I'm the end I'm not picky as long as there's no nasty shit in there.
¹Explanation for non-Germans: ToxFox is a mobile app released by German eco-NGO BUND. It lets you scan a cosmetic product's barcode to look it up in an ingredients database. It will show warnings if the product contains stuff like microplastics or ingredients that aren't entirely harmless.
The social implications of veiling are an interesting and complex topic. Unfortunately, public discourse tends to be pretty bad at handling complex topics. But there are occasional moments of lucidity. To wit:
Sometime around 2015 or so we had a big political debate in Germany. Some politicians were floating the idea of a "burqa ban" (= a flat ban on all forms of Islamic face veiling). For a while it was seriously debated but it ultimately failed as most Germans considered it to violate freedom of religion.
The media were actually helpful – at least the publicly funded ones were. One particularly interesting report I saw was when a female reporter put on full veils (and correctly identified what she was wearing as a niqab, not a burqa) and went out in public. First with a hidden camera to see how she was treated, then with a camera team to get vox pops.
Opinions were actually fairly divided even among Muslims. One male Muslim argued that face veils always are inherently oppressive and have no place in society. A young woman (who was wearing nothing indicating her religion) expressed admiration for those who fully veil and hoped that one day she'd be able to as well. An old woman wearing a headscarf who was carrying groceries said that she did wear the niqab "but not right now; I have things to do".
That diversity of views has stuck with me, especially that last statement. I never expected someone who observes such full veiling to be so pragmatic about it. (Yes, that does go against the reasons for wearing them in the first place but everybody tailors their religion to themself.) If wearing any kind of veils can be something you can just decide not to do, then it becomes an expression of agency, not one of lack thereof. I respect that.
Of course it's not respectable when someone is forced to wear a headscarf/a niqab/whatever. But a ban isn't going to fix that; people who oppress their wives aren't going to stop doing so. If they feel that nobody outside the house is allowed to see their wife's face then the wife will simply no longer be allowed to leave the house.
Ultimately, in my opinion, people should be allowed to wear any religious garment they want, provided it's their own desire to do so and there's no overriding reason to disallow it. (E.g., no matter how religious you are, you do not wear a kaftan or a cross necklace or anything else that dangles while operating industrial machinery.) Anything else is useless at best.
Annoyingly, we already have fast transactions as part of SEPA. But they're somewhat inconvenient to do and especially not available by just holding your card in front of a sensor.
If we had a harmonized standard for that we could get rid of Visa and MasterCard. And if we had a common web interface to make SEPA transactions more convenient than manually typing an IBAN into a homebanking interface we could get rid of PayPal as well.
Yes, I know services like that exist but I really hate how the current ones expect me to type the login credentials for my homebanking into a third-party website.
Yeah, the 13 feels a lot more solid. The 16 pays a certain price for its enhanced configurability. Honestly, though, a full-size touchpad module would go a long way to fixing that. The two spacers next to the keyboard look fine (if the keyboard is centered) but the touchpad spacers look less great.
True, although in the context of "hey, here's some money to make a one-season ATLA sequel" you're probably expected to have something that feels ATLA-ish – which means that a dramatic overarching plot is hard to avoid. This is especially so since a single-season show needs to establish its setting and characters, give them some room to breather, and set up and conclude an interesting storyline all in a handful of episodes. Action plots are easier to do under those constraints.
These days there's more freedom; Avatar has ascended to cult franchise status and the purse strings are no longer held by a network hellbent self-sabotage. We could totally make Avatar: The Next Generation, where people spend most of their time standing around and discussing philosophy. You can do that in animation, as Orb has just demonstrated, and the universe has plenty of space for it.
I have a Framework 16. Is it as well-built, efficient, or quiet as a MacBook Pro? Nope. But if something breaks I can easily replace it, and I can upgrade it without having to throw everything away. Also, hot-swappable ports. That's nice too.
The jealous people are actually the only antagonists with a good point, which was undermined when it turns out they were unknowingly led by an ultra super special guy. And then they were essentially ignored after the ultra super special guy was out of the picture.
Of course this was partially an artifact of the show's production history. The first arc was supposed to be all there is, then the network started adding and subtracting seasons at random. It's hard o tell a nuanced story in one season and even harder to tell a coherent one when your life expectancy fluctuates wildly.
In my opinion LOK would've been a bit more interesting if they'd spent more time examining social tension in the city instead of focusing on the actions of a few people. Explore what it takes to turn several mutually antagonistic factions in a confined area into one functioning society and discuss the effects of long-term social tension.
Of course there would still be some bad guys to punch. Can't have an Avatar show without good fights.
Honestly, Windows isn't ready for the desktop, either, it's just not ready in a different way that most people are familiar with.
Things like an OS update breaking the system should be rare, not so common that people are barely surprised when it happens to them. In a unified system developed as one integral product by one company there should be one config UI, not at least three (one of which is essentially undocumented). "Use third-party software to disable core features of the OS" shouldn't be sensible advice.
Windows is horribly janky, it's just common enough that people accept that jank as an unavoidable part of using a computer.
Framework 16 with a 7840HS and the RX 7700S GPU module. Quite happy, although it can get pretty loud under heavy load. The real benefits will come with time, of course, as the Framework's strengths are in repairability and upgradeability.