"Best build quality" is the most important part.
"Best build quality" is the most important part. If you never got to handle one you are missing out. Glass and Solid milled aluminum. Silicone wrist pads and grip. 4:3 screen ratio. high quality keyboard. Rock solid 360 screen hinge. Hardware is essentially a high end cellphone from 2016, which isn't a powerhouse but still does everything I would ask of a chromebook in 2026. Batteries are all generally going well. Repair-ability is a challenge, but I want to work on that. You can mod it to run windows or linux. Stock it runs chromeos, linux subsystem, and android apps. It has a "feature" where if you keep in developer mode it auto-wipes itself if anybody else tries to boot it (hitting anything but the un-indicated ctrl-d at the boot screen initiates powerwash). Great for international travel. It isn't a good choice for "power" but dominates every other aspect of "being a good laptop". It was too expensive for the chromebook market back then, but now you can pick them up for $200 and hand them to your parents and stop getting asked to fix their computer.
Posted by blamestross on Sep 29, 2026, 4:52 PM
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> I had the opinion that it'd be too expensive for developers to support offline mode, peer to peer, or community servers after shutdown ...
"Best build quality" is the most important part.
Historically that rarely happens because industrial equipment is/was generally too expensive for the average worker to purchase on t...
I can see why they wanted to change the "RISC-V is inevitable" line.
The GB10 itself is pretty good and I love using mine for broad Linux development.
> Nothing stops someone from taking the free Windows Vivado and making it run on Linux The EULA and the fact that the linux versior runs...
Hetzner has some docs: https://docs.hetzner.com/robot/dedicated-server/ip/additiona...
> too expensive for our internal server needs; not the right fit for our datacenter partners/customers You and me both.
"Best build quality" is the most important part.
"Best build quality" is the most important part. If you never got to handle one you are missing out. Glass and Solid milled aluminum. Silicone wrist pads and grip. 4:3 screen ratio. high quality keyboard. Rock solid 360 screen hinge. Hardware is essentially a high end cellphone from 2016, which isn't a powerhouse but still does everything I would ask of a chromebook in 2026. Batteries are all generally going well. Repair-ability is a challenge, but I want to work on that. You can mod it to run windows or linux. Stock it runs chromeos, linux subsystem, and android apps. It has a "feature" where if you keep in developer mode it auto-wipes itself if anybody else tries to boot it (hitting anything but the un-indicated ctrl-d at the boot screen initiates powerwash). Great for international travel. It isn't a good choice for "power" but dominates every other aspect of "being a good laptop". It was too expensive for the chromebook market back then, but now you can pick them up for $200 and hand them to your parents and stop getting asked to fix their computer.
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