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[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago

Size isn't everything. While I get what they're trying to say, the 'light utility vehicles' of today are getting 20-30 mpg while the sedan of 40 years ago got like... 5. Fuck cars and all, but this isn't really a good angle.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

except phones are big again because we noticed we can watch porn on them

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah that meme/graphic up there seems circa 2013, judging by the size of that smartphone.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

You don't know what I'd do to get massive chunky brick laptops back from the 90's again. Look at all those ports!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Counterpoint: you needed all those different ports because we didn't have USB-C and wifi yet.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If you like chunky and portful check out the MNT Reform

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

whoa

regretting my framework laptop about now

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Bring back the assault-and-battery-case laptop!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

What you carry and what carries you don't really compare though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Who gives a shit about cars, give me my buttload of ports back!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Get framework. It has 6 type-c ports, each of which you can breakout into something like 10 ports with usb hubs.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 5 months ago (2 children)

For those who are actually curious, this is because of the Light Truck Exemption in the US. long story short, the us made emissions requirements on cars. Car companies said "fine well do cars, but we can't do it for trucks". At the time, trucks were only used for, you know, actual truck things, so they made the Light Truck Exemption.

So of course car companies created the SUV, popularized it, and made it the standard. Now, so interestingly, everything is a light truck! Even most sedans are. Who would have guessed car companies found a way out of emissions standards yet again.

Great not just bikes video that goes more in depth: https://youtu.be/jN7mSXMruEo?si=y38n9OQz8gC5RLBq

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I don't think that's related. It's more about why america loves pickups so much while the rest of the world doesn't. But the SUV epidemic is actually global.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

The weird thing is that it even rubs of to the rest of the world, cars are getting bigger and higher in Europe, without the tax dodge, or even the contrary. Where I live cars are taxed by weight and even here the fuckers get bigger...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Actually, I'd like a bigger and thicker laptop

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Gaming laptops are thicker and have quite a few ports. I have one and the only port i am missing is Displayport instead of hdmi

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Does anyone know what that laptop is?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

MacBook Air

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Courtesy of /u/idiot206's sleuthing work when this was posted to reddit a couple years back, it's a modded Mac SE

https://www.cultofmac.com/229732/this-13-pound-vintage-mac-laptop-was-killed-by-the-sony-walkman/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

That thing is awesome. I kinda want one.

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