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> average data usage of macbooks With all sincerity, I honestly don’t know what this is supposed to mean.

2-3-7-43-1807 2y ago
well, i didn't post the full question - right? b/c i'm not expecting an answer here ... but to be a little more clear: data usage refers to up- and download.
- DaiPlusPlus 2y ago
  > but to be a little more clear: data usage refers to up- and download. Right, that was one possibility… my initial thought was that you meant HDD capacity. But even with that clarification, how is an answerable question? Are you asking people to guess (Feynman Approximation?) how much internet traffic up+down that the average MacBook user has per-day compared to Windows or Linux users? Or did you mean something else? My left eyebrow raised itself uncontrollably as I typed that out, in fact.
  - 2-3-7-43-1807 2y ago
    alrighty ^
- nosianu 2y ago
  > well, i didn't post the full question - right? Exactly, you did not. How I see it: The problem with reading such complaints is that we always only hear one side. That's why posting what you actually asked is valuable information to be able to say whether your complaint is justified or not. By default, a lot of people immediately side with and upvote the person writing the complaint, but that's actually bad - as I said, we only hear one side of the story that way, and in cases such as this one what was actually said/asked matters and without that piece of information any opinion one forms and comment votes one gives do not have a good basis to stand on. Furthermore, when people write such complaints but don't see how from the reader's PoV is only biased half-information I wonder if their question showed a similar lack of how it looks like from the PoV of its readers. You want me to side with you, but you withhold information that would let me evaluate if you are actually in the right.
  - 2-3-7-43-1807 2y ago
    i'm just stating an observation and connect it to a recent experience - that's all - i'm not asking you to be the judge in a court case. if you can't relate to the issue i describe, then just down vote and move on with your life.
    - DaiPlusPlus 2y ago
      > if you can't relate to the issue i describe, then just down vote and move on with your life. I don’t do that (downvoting, that is). No-one I know does that. It sounds like you had a bad day.
      - 2-3-7-43-1807 2y ago
        that was a reply to someone else ...
        dspillett 2y ago
        Any reply here, and on similar forums, is essentially a reply to the whole thread so far. DaiPlusPlus was part of that sequence, and may have been about to post the same sort of response that nosianu did (no point in posting entirely duplicate comments) and you replied to, in which case it was essentially a reply to him by proxy. Comment chains on HN and elsewhere are not private one-on-one conversations.
        2-3-7-43-1807 2y ago
        well, i beg to differ
        dspillett 2y ago
        And I beg to not :) Not accepting that things work the way they do, does not stop things working the way they do.

well, i didn't post the full question - right? b/c i'm not expecting an answer here ... but to be a little more clear: data usage refers to up- and download.

DaiPlusPlus 2y ago
> but to be a little more clear: data usage refers to up- and download. Right, that was one possibility… my initial thought was that you meant HDD capacity. But even with that clarification, how is an answerable question? Are you asking people to guess (Feynman Approximation?) how much internet traffic up+down that the average MacBook user has per-day compared to Windows or Linux users? Or did you mean something else? My left eyebrow raised itself uncontrollably as I typed that out, in fact.
- 2-3-7-43-1807 2y ago
  alrighty ^
nosianu 2y ago
> well, i didn't post the full question - right? Exactly, you did not. How I see it: The problem with reading such complaints is that we always only hear one side. That's why posting what you actually asked is valuable information to be able to say whether your complaint is justified or not. By default, a lot of people immediately side with and upvote the person writing the complaint, but that's actually bad - as I said, we only hear one side of the story that way, and in cases such as this one what was actually said/asked matters and without that piece of information any opinion one forms and comment votes one gives do not have a good basis to stand on. Furthermore, when people write such complaints but don't see how from the reader's PoV is only biased half-information I wonder if their question showed a similar lack of how it looks like from the PoV of its readers. You want me to side with you, but you withhold information that would let me evaluate if you are actually in the right.
- 2-3-7-43-1807 2y ago
  i'm just stating an observation and connect it to a recent experience - that's all - i'm not asking you to be the judge in a court case. if you can't relate to the issue i describe, then just down vote and move on with your life.
  - DaiPlusPlus 2y ago
    > if you can't relate to the issue i describe, then just down vote and move on with your life. I don’t do that (downvoting, that is). No-one I know does that. It sounds like you had a bad day.
    - 2-3-7-43-1807 2y ago
      that was a reply to someone else ...
      - dspillett 2y ago
        Any reply here, and on similar forums, is essentially a reply to the whole thread so far. DaiPlusPlus was part of that sequence, and may have been about to post the same sort of response that nosianu did (no point in posting entirely duplicate comments) and you replied to, in which case it was essentially a reply to him by proxy. Comment chains on HN and elsewhere are not private one-on-one conversations.
        2-3-7-43-1807 2y ago
        well, i beg to differ
        dspillett 2y ago
        And I beg to not :) Not accepting that things work the way they do, does not stop things working the way they do.