For the love of crust, it is not a trackball..!
A trackball is an actual ball, a sphere, partly encased and partly exposed, that one spins to make the cursor move.
The word for the thinkpad nub is trackpoint.

No benchmarks? I don’t get how anyone can review any sort of computer without benchmarking.

They were, once upon a time, super common on laptops. Most trackpads were terrible, and the nubbin, while not especially nimble, was at least consistent.

Function over all else.

I love me some ThinkPads, glad you are enjoying yours.

I have used X1s at work since the infamous third iteration with the virtual function bar (which, surprise surprise, is now a selling point for MacBooks Pro). Even though I still rock my last-gen Vaio Z at home, I couldn’t hope for a better laptop at work. Solid, light, excellent for traveling, powerful AF, and for…

There is so much manufactured social outrage on the internet these days that’s it’s hard to tell when a real problem arises. It’s challenging finding plain old news and information, too, because the outrage machine is such a click/cash cow.

I remember when io9 was a site that was capable of writing articles like this with nuance and maturity rather than knee jerk pearl clutching. Whilst this might well be considered a topic worthy of discussion, if you’re starting from a point of dictating where and when an individual of minority descent gets to use a…

The clickbait headline sure is taking the quote out of context.

Eh....I think this is only an issue because oversensitive liberal white folk who can’t use those words don’t understand using words like that to make jokes about yourself or just saying the words in general without censoring ourselves because we can. Remember all the clutched pearls over the president saying ‘nigger’?…

Yeah, nerfs are comparatively easy to tell apart. The females tend to be pink and purple and come with... uhhh... applicators?

No, what it comes down to is Youtube is giving moderation power to a bunch of people who are most likely of the mindset of “if I dont’like it, then it needs to go away”. And YT is then rewarding people for that behavior.

I would add Enemy Mine and The Last Starfighter

KRULL is one of the greatest films ever crafted by the hand of man. Just sayin’. *cough*

The best part of Krull is when the hero shakes hands with the Cyclops. The actor playing the Cyclops obviously can’t see much through the makeup and almost misses his hand.

Oh man Krull was great. I’ve even watched it as an adult. Cracked up when I recognized Liam Nieson.

Oh god I loved Krull. I have absolutely NO idea why.

Krull is almost great, but the special effects - in particular, the true form of the bad guy - really let it down.

Krull was Da Shit.... Any movie with Liam Neeson is worth owning.

Because he’s straight up awesome. They’re all too old now, but man I’d love an Expendables that swapped out the muscle men for stars of the same era like, Dabney Coleman, Gene Hackman, Gene Wilder and John Lithgow.