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Re:Ask HN: What does one look for in a laptop these days? by pw6hv on Saturday October 16, 2021 @01:50PM (#28889809)
> As I was typing this, a great example of said broken crap, is Lenovo popping up a MessageBox asking me to reboot to update my firmware. Didn't software developers all agree well over a decade ago that windows stealing focus was not a good thing? So why then is a top of the line brand in the PC world writing shit like this?

Don't think that MacOS spares you about that either. Update notifications are equally distracting.

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Re:Ask HN: What does one look for in a laptop these days? by finalfire on Saturday October 16, 2021 @02:47PM (#28890324)
> Don't think that MacOS spares you about that either. Update notifications are equally distracting.

You're right but if I recall correctly notifications do not steal the focus.

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Re:Ask HN: What does one look for in a laptop these days? by throwawayboise on Saturday October 16, 2021 @03:32PM (#28890724)
> why then is a top of the line brand in the PC world writing shit like this

"It's OK when we do it"

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