> indirectly harmful by training us to accept a synthetic reality where nothing can be trusted and everything must be questioned.

that's quite the definition of 'harmful'

It's good to have private websites and keep them weird, but this will and can in no way change the internet in general, centralization of content is a very good feature, at least functionally it is necessary.

you can accept bitcoin at any confirmation you want, it isn't a policy

in bitcoin terminology it is actually called policy rather than consensus, meaning you can choose your own config and still meet consensus rules.

web components are terrible and should not be used for modern development with the exception of very nieche use cases that require sandboxing

Custom elements are web components, it's literally what the article is about

LLMs completely ruined "—" for me, its not jus that it makes text look generated I think it revealed something deep about the use of it that was always really cringe and just has no reason to exist...

> I think it revealed something deep about the use of it that was always really cringe

A punctuation mark was “cringe”? Seriously? Is this middle school?

yes, seriously, its usage was most often bad in a specific way that in most contexts it expressed a certain pretentiousness of the author

I went for a similar upgrade from X1 Carbon. I don't undestand why OP would compare the weight of a 16 to carbon which is closer to framework 13 (which I bought).

For me on Arch it's working great and has none of the issues he mentions, its the best laptop I ever owned. I bought one because the Carbon started decomposing fairly quickly (headphone jack, usb c port, keys) and think the modularity is a really great feature.

ideologies are part of the material conditions

"it feels off-mission" is a very chatgpt thing to say