St. John's College FTW!

There's no hope anymore of a solution.

Needs a little red nub in the center of the keyboard.

The HP DevOne has one. Shame about that washed-out glossy screen (some say it has a built-in privacy filter).

The HP Dev One follows the HP EliteBook's poor design of pairing the pointing stick with 2 mouse buttons instead of 3. Without the middle mouse button, you can't scroll with the pointing stick and you'll need to use the trackpad (or apply some hack to the 2 available buttons), which makes the pointing stick a less effective tool.

You can scroll with the Dev One's pointing stick. Just hold down both mouse buttons, as two buttons emulate a middle click.

I've tried that, and it was so uncomfortable to hold down both mouse buttons with one thumb that I did not find this workaround worthwhile. It was awkward using both thumbs to do the same.

I guess this design problem is no more because the latest elitebooks got rid of the trackpoint entirely.

The Elitebook model that the Dev One is based off of has a SureView screen, which is what the Dev One ships with. That's to say it is an intentional privacy filter. I didn't find it to be washed out and the gloss is comparable to a MBP from a few years ago.

Reference is old enough that we're not sure if you're joking.

ThinkPads are still popular, so I don't see this as a joke. A pointing stick (TrackPoint) is excellent for people who want to use both the keyboard and the mouse while moving their hands as little as possible.

Unfortunately, the StarFighter has soldered memory, which is one of the main drawbacks of new ThinkPad models. Star Labs also sells the mid-range StarBook laptop with replaceable memory and the low-end StarLite laptop with soldered memory. On the other hand, Star Labs is Linux-first and pays the developers of the pre-installed Linux distribution configured in the order, which is an advantage over Lenovo for Linux users.

As Billy Tallis from anandtech explains, soldered memory has its advantages too.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34760461

Not joking at all, I hope. The trackpoint is very convenient: you don't have to move your hands off the home row just to move mouse pointer.

The removal of a hallmark symbol of tradition is anathema.

Icons should be smashed whenever they're noticed. The worship of images is blasphemous.

There is no difference between recognition and worship?

What exactly has been lost here? Neither the city nor the university is wanting for pedigree

Blackberry Key2 is still a normal phone with excellent normal phone qualities, including a normal physical keyboard.

Hoping the upcoming sequel is worth the wait, no longer produced by TCL, but OnwardMobility. Considering no product design folk are listed on their team page, I won't get my hopes up.

This trend is sickening. Windows 10 has a nearly 1 second delay when mousing over the Start Menu scroll bar. Why wouldn't I want a scroll bar there? It is the primary thing I seek when I click Start.

In the Gmail Admin interface for users, the scrollbar vanishes unless I have my browser nearly maximized. Do the designers live in a world where their browser is always nearly full screen?

You'd think huge companies would notice and care about these things.

Keyboard that represents "brand values" and "angling the device to enterprise customers" sounds like OnwardMobility gets what it is all about.

On your browser, disable JS, images and stylesheets.

I've got nothing but love for my Verizon KEY2 LE. Finally, someone got a keyboard phone right.

It's weird how the keys are aligned vertically rather than staggered like other desktop and smartphone keyboards, though. I wonder how they came to that decision.

Does Debian benefit from this work?