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by SllX 7mo ago
24GB is definitely solid. 16GB is like my minimum recommended for any kind of Mac, but if you can go for more you should go for more. I think 24GB should last a good long while though.
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by SllX 7mo ago
> The best comparator here is likely the iPhone 16 Pros, released in late 2024. These were the flagship iPhones until late 2025. They are only one generation old. They have the same CPU and the same 8GB of RAM. I have never heard anyone
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by SllX 7mo ago
> Surely, the tough 8 GB RAM decision was influenced by the three factors 1. current DRAM cost and 2. limited DRAM availability considerations as of 2026, and 3. the massive Neo market size resulting from its attractive price tag, and th
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by SllX 7mo ago
Nobody forgot anything, and I certainly didn’t. You can tell when you hit swap, and it doesn’t matter what Mac OS X is designed to do, when you hit swap, you hit swap. When you’re hitting swap a lot, you’re hitting swap a lot.
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by SllX 7mo ago
Browser use on the modern web is enough to put you in swap territory early and often on 8GB of RAM. My much more RAM efficient M2 iPad Pro with the non-desktop OS and 8GB of RAM frequently has to page out apps I had open two minutes ago if
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by SllX 7mo ago
Over the years since the M1 has launched I’ve cycled through Firefox, Safari, Arc, Zen, Orion and Vivaldi. For the past year my primary browser has been Orion on one M1 Mac, and Firefox has been the main on another M1 work machine for the p
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by SllX 7mo ago
> For everything else, swap usage on Apple machines works so well that RAM might as well not exist. You and I disagree on this part so strenuously I don’t foresee a middle ground. Swap still absolutely sucks no matter how fast the SSD
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by SllX 7mo ago
I have an M1 MacBook Air with 16GB of RAM. It’s a great computer, but even on days where I’m doing fuck all but using the web I can pressure that memory easily. I also have a tendency to never reboot until that becomes the fastest way to fi
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by SllX 7mo ago
The iPad line makes a lot more sense when you’re just shopping and realize you’re just on a price ladder. Start from the bottom and climb up picking up features along the way until you reach the point where you’ve got what you want or you’r
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by SllX 7mo ago
Sure. Small thin notebook you can throw in a bag or a purse and it’s a tank? What’s not to love? It was still technically a bad computer and the butterfly keyboards did become a significant issue, mind it it them harder where it really ma
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by SllX 7mo ago
Yeah, that iteration of the MacBook was more an executive toy notebook, and it wasn’t a particularly great computer either introducing to the world Intel’s Core i3 line, the now infamous butterfly keyboards, and USB-C. That last one worked
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by SllX 7mo ago
If the UN actually had any teeth, then it’s the UN that would be targeted and destroyed by its strongest members. The UN only survives because it is toothless, and the permanent seats of the UNSC are essential to guaranteeing buy-in from
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by SllX 7mo ago
> That's a false dichotomy. The alternatives includes giving each country an equal standing without a veto, votes proportional to the population, or even fully direct democracy by every person in the world, and a million other alter
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by SllX 7mo ago
All those items in the context menu are one of the reasons that context menus are so good. Ideally you never need to go to the menu bar for much of anything because the right menu item is right there in the context menu where your cursor is
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by SllX 8mo ago
I think y’all are so quick to try and criticize everything around the President that you’re kinda missing my point: Of course there are people that would love to target the POTUS. The Secret Service detail exists for a reason. That reason b
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by SllX 8mo ago
Again, the Secret Service is there to protect against all threats and the US Military there for every single other threat above the Secret Service’s pay grade and scale. It’s the most dangerous and most protected job in America no matter
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by SllX 8mo ago
There’s a reason every POTUS has a Secret Service detail. So yeah, it’s been imagined. Presidents have been shot and killed before, and Trump himself was shot during the lead up to the most recent election.
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by SllX 8mo ago
The difficulty level of changing the California Constitution is not high, and is dramatically lower than changing the US Constitution. The difficulty is convincing people what to change and why. Flipping the table because it’s dramatic is n
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by SllX 8mo ago
I’m aware of the history, but my point is that as a specific reform to pursue, it’s noise. If California moves to a Parliamentary system but maintains the popular ballot initiative that has undermined legislative power and allowed legislato
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by SllX 8mo ago
> Maybe a better answer would be for US states to adopt the parliamentary system? Maybe. Maybe not. I don’t think it would change outcomes as much as people would think, but to scope limit this back to California again because electoral
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by SllX 8mo ago
If someone can still keep getting people to vote for them, that’s not really an issue. We elect the way we do and empower the way we do because it empowers voters to choose on a regular recurring basis who is going to provide oversight that
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by SllX 8mo ago
How about we stop screwing around and let becoming a legislator become an attractive & competitive job and just hold our noses at the little things that make politicians as a class generally unattractive people? Like not limitless, no
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by SllX 8mo ago
> And yet, term limits are something many people want in the hopes that it will solve some of the problems in Washington DC. Plenty of shitty ideas are popular based on a hope and a prayer. That’s why you don’t give in to populism. If we
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by SllX 8mo ago
Bold of you to assume any aspect of the California State legislature is visible enough to be more or less popular. People at least pay attention to what the US Senate does, and you know that no matter how the next election goes, the US Se
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by SllX 8mo ago
The incentives are all wrong. You can serve up to 6 two-year terms in the Assembly or up to 3 four-year terms in the Senate, but regardless of which combination you do, nobody in the California legislature can serve more than 12 years combi
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by SllX 8mo ago
Yeah but let’s not and say we didn’t.
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by SllX 8mo ago
It is always fair game to complain about shit web design on sites you others are expected to use or read. The ads presented are part of that.
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by SllX 8mo ago
Of course it is.
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by SllX 8mo ago
You jest but they did name change it to Microsoft 365. Confused the hell out of me recently when I was looking for Office 365 on their website. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_365
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by SllX 8mo ago
> rationally priced micropayments rather than be forced into the ad circus And when the rational price is zero, or rounds down to zero, they won’t survive either way, even with the magic fintech of your fantasies. If something is worth p

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