Idk, it's a social media platform. User posts are already the product. I don't really see a difference in someone posting an opinion of theirs vs something they created. Maybe posting "hey buy my game" isn't the best look, but sharing something they made to users who might have an interest in their product is fine with me.

I can post advertisements for what I made on Facebook or Twitter, they also have ads. Reddit just allows the creator to select a larger, more likely to be interested, audience for their post beyond their current following. (Obviously some subs have rules against this to stop the constant postings, but I don't think it should be against Reddits rules in general.)

Touch Bar on my 2017 MBP... :(

Touch Bars have existed for decades. However, I never saw one replace the F keys. And guess what? Half the time when I boot my Touch Bar doesn't. No amount of terminal wizardry fixes it, it simply refuses to start.

I'm totally with you about not wanting some stupid gimmick that we get charged for.

Apple is wasting R&D and engineering time on this.

Just pick whatever Ubuntu flavour has your favourite DE

Those saying “who needs a touch screen laptop” have never seen children immediately instinctively touch the screen if any computer they’re using because of iPad

I think ethically, anyone trying to advertise on a platform that charges for advertisement, should, you know; play by the rules.

Reddit is free for a reason.

Pop_os is the way to go.

I always used to laugh at my Macbook Pro using colleagues who'd go on about how awesome their Macbook was despite that Dell being more powerful, thinner, had a pretty good touch screen and also about a third cheaper.

Nope.

Are you looking for an installable Linux distribution?

I used to be the biggest android fan boy when I was younger but every single fucking android smartphone I have ever owned would start shitting the bed shortly after the first big software update and then I would just have to suffer until I was due for my next upgrade.

I had an iPhone 6s up until six months ago and then it died when I dropped it in a fountain. I upgraded to an iPhone 8 and the thing works flawlessly. Maybe android flagships are better now but I’m not going to throw away $1000 on a Galaxy Ultra whose battery may or may not explode after a year when I can get an iPhone that’ll last me 5+ years.

Anything's possible in the Tim Cook era~

Exactly, This^

Why even docked, just give us the macOS before started metamorphosing into iPadOS (Ventura) which always been a glorified version of iOS with wasted spaces~

Christ everyone here is shitting on this like it's not a completely optional extra feature that you 100% do not need to use if you don't want it. Nobody is gonna make you touch your laptops screen but it's nice to have the option for those that want it.

Time to be a macro king prince.

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It's a bad recommendation not meant for ordinary use and is why looking for alternatives (as already mentioned)~

2014 Dell Inspiron with a touch is fun for scrolling long whatever pages. Imgur Reddit fb. Not much else. Just lots of scrolling. Maybe map stuff at times. Don’t regret it. Kids still use it for my “vintage” steam collection. Ssd and windows 10 it’s still decent.

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I would much prefer an iPad that would run MacOS when docked.

My son is 9 years old, and currently uses my old XPS as his computer. He assumes every screen is a touchscreen - even my desktop monitor and large TVs. He would think a 2023 MacBook was something from before he was born.

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Ill take a MacBook and iPad any day no matter the cost. Hell, both will still probably be cheaper.

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Exactly.

You would expect

first display output at 4k @ 60 Hz

second display output at 8k @ 60 Hz

That would be future-proofing a little bit, and definitely much more useful for 2023 and 2024.

Hackintosh is already capable of this so it should not be hard