What “merits” needing a CPU upgrade? I upgraded from a core i9 11950h to a 13900h machine because I needed more performance. That 11th gen machine still looks pristine besides one spot where a cat bit the corner of the lid. Even my piddling around machine wasn’t up to snuff and upgraded from a 10th gen i5 to a 12th gen system. That machine’s keyboard was a bit worn when I first got it, but it’s not (appreciably) worse now. Besides that and maybe the palm rest the chassis is in pretty good condition. Why does it matter if the keycaps are a little smooth? Or there’s a small scuff on one corner. Or a cat punctured the bezel of the display and somehow didn’t break anything.

You’re worried about the screen being worn out? How does a screen wear out (excluding maybe oled burn in, but this aint oled). And a good chassis shouldn’t show that much wear after a few years.

They’re still far better than everything else on the market.

IdeaPads also aren’t ThinkPads. Those are the consumer grade garbage you’d want to stay away from.

That’s cool. Performance per dollar isn’t the only factor for a laptop.

Size

Weight

Durability

Battery life

I/O and other features.

A not dogshit network card

An actually usuable trackpad

I’m sure I could list more. But those are all things that are important on a laptop and you can’t change after you buy it.

The law requires things to have a backdoor (or non encryption I guess). So it’s either sell in that market, or don’t and have security.

Lemmy is not the demographic to ask this question. You’re definitely skewed towards using a desktop/laptop here.

The first Android phone had the nipple, so must be the layout or something.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Dream

Luigi didn’t really have a background that would have flagged him.

Windows Hello (and presumably modern Linux equivalents) use the camera + IR transmitters to work at least similarly to how apples Face ID works. In theory they should both be secure, but in practice who knows what they fucked up.

DWM

Low quality astroturfing is my guess.

Just because it’s open source and anyone could theoretically fork it doesn’t mean it can’t be enshitified.