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At no point do I imply that is the correct course of action, but it's also not helpful to constantly berate actual acts of resistance all the damn time pretending that it's from the moral high ground when you know damn well the line between the two is just a matter of privilege.

Ah... The moral high ground... A winning strategy...

Genuine question, are there any "just hit print" open source printers on the market yet? I don't have the time for maintaining a printer on it's own, which is why I've enjoyed my A1 mini so much (it just works), but I'm of the same opinion as you and would love a viable open-source alternative.

Unless you get comfortable using linux, that's not happening. Microsoft groups so much into the O365 E5 tier that it's legitimately impossible to get a similar business level feature set for even double the price, mainly because win11 & office (word, excel, etc) make up 85% of that license cost on their own. So in order to have the business momentum required to make a software pivot you're going to need cost saving elsewhere to force it to make sense, and Microsoft has cornered the "I'm not a techy, just make it work like my computer at my last job" crowd that will never switch an OS because of their familiarity with Windows.

I hate having to run my own backups. That's been a massively hidden cost behind self hosting that I did not originally account for. Anything sufficiently robust is expensive and anything cheap is unreliable (at least at the scales of data I have, 4k+ RAW videos and photos are massive).

I'm not saying I like this trend or design, but I feel we're all lacking a few hundred TBs of the apple analytics data that would be required to make an informed decision on this design choice for their user base.

Is this one of those old obscenely small obscenely underpowered net books?

Your pi is idling at 4w? That seems quite high. Does it have a nvme drive attached or something?

UPS systems are generally configured for 90 minutes of operation, depending on the criticality of the system they're connected to. The best ones are programable and will actually send graceful shutdown signals (when configured to do so) to your server cluster to prevent data loss that occurs during system blackouts. You can emulate this behavior on your laptop with a script that checks battery% every 10-15 minutes, sending a shutdown signal if it falls below a treshhold you set.

You're mistaken. Laptop cells do not behave in this way or use LiPo chemistries. They're Lion chems and behave entirely different.

Some won't boot without a detectable battery cell. Depends entirely on the laptop in question what the best course of action is. Most newer bios handle charge profiles automatically and will prevent ac related damage but it's all dependant on how they were designed/made.

Laptops run on "burst" computing profiles in a lot of engineering situations, occasionally this applies to both the thermal design (runaway heatsoak if used at full tilt) but also battery design. I've seen several machines that will dip into their battery in addition to the charger to boost performance and dump wattage into the chips beyond what would be available from the adapter alone. I don't necessarily think it's good design, but modern battery chems don't really give a shit about up/down momentary charge cycles. Also the Chem they're using is not LiPo based as that chemistry while allowing for significant amperage to be drawn, is not stable enough for a laptop that is generally expected not to ignite.