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by Wytwwww 2y ago
You could upgrade pretty much all(?) Macs yourself back in those days, though
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> Cirrus7 It starts €599,00 for 2(!) core Celeron. Seems absurd when you can get a Mini for an extra €100 (you can run Linux/Windows in a VM and still get a magnitude or few better perf). Or even an used old NUC or something, you&
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
Yes, I mean I'm not trying to justify those events however by the standards of the day it doesn't seem particularly exceptional (of course again, we only have a very vague understanding). Killing the entire male population (since
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> It would probably provide for living comfortably Not if we increase the amount of money compared to what's currently spent on welfare by several times. Or if we don't and just replace current targeted welfare schemes with UBI
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> It's to reduce unit costs The increase in per unit cost probably would be entirely insignificant and minuscule compared to the revenue they'd lose by not being able to charge predatory prices for storage upgrades. So it would
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> Killing a bunch of random Danes We don't really know much but supposedly they were mainly enemy combatants (and their affiliates, possibly including their families in a less generous interpretation. Although considering that the s
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> €200 for 128GB as an aftermarket upgrade I'd love that, seems like a fantastic deal. I assume it's DDR4, though? Which makes it an even more apples to oranges comparison. However if we're being fair Dell seems to be char
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> capacity out of the vileness of their hearts or something. No, it's obviously because they can upcharge on upgrades? That's just market segmentation. I doubt it can have much to do with technical limitations or actual costs (
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
Isn't the memory in the Surface Laptop 7 (and presumably other comparable Qualcomm/x86 laptops) quite a bit faster? Of course MS overcharges on upgrades as well... because they can. Can it really have anything to do with cost, tho
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
Well... that doesn't really matter if you have to use Teams/Slack or whatever?
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
That's fair. People have different preferences. I personally don't even really care much for macOS these days.. > every app have its own updater Well certainly not all due. But mainly because they are not part of the OS/di
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> Compared to dying in millions Must be fun coming up with imaginary scenarios and basing your "arguments" and claims on them? That's just a bizarrely absurd thing to say... Under what circumstances or what chain of events
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> but I'm pretty confident on this one. I just doubt there is actual meaningful data available (at least that's publicly accessible). We'd need to measure the proportion of base config MBA users who regularly get OOM warni
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> You can build PCs there are more powerful than that Mac, cheaper. And you can easily repair them Why would anyone buy a Porsche? You can buy an F-150 with a >1 ton payload capacity, fit 6 people in it and if you get the EV version i
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
I'm not sure how can we tell. The Mac revenue has peaked back in 2022 and has been declining since. But assure, I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people use their Macs as they would an iPad (i.e. at most a single app and/or
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
Would the people who were buying the baseline 8GB model (presumably just for general computing/office work) care about the GPU being slightly slower, though? I bet that the extreme lag when you run out of memory because you have an Ele
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
If you use your PC to only run a single application at any time then yes, 8GB might be usable. If you need to have an Electron app opened, a few browser tabs and XCode (let alone some less efficient IDE)? Your compute will grind to a halt..
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
Well.. no. But if it breaks or is damaged you basically have to throw away (the otherwise) fully functional PC.
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
These days 8 GB is absurdly low for a ~$1300 PC. Hopefully they might have finally realized that selling crippled products (just to force its users to pay the predatory price for memory upgrades) is hurting UX and their reputation. I mean t
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
About what exactly? Anyway.. why aren't you on reddit instead? There must be some subreddit for people like you there.
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
To be fair they seem to be somewhat accurate and objective. The Russian economy has proved to be unexpectedly resilient. Western countries continued buying Russian oil/etc. while restricting the exports of goods and services which lead
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
No, their have their own homegrown (objectively) fascist government. They also seem to be very happy about that government deciding to needlessly kill or cripple hundreds of thousands of Russian men for who knows what reason...
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
Imagine if nobody had any incentives to do stuff like that? As long as Chinese leaders remain reasonably rational and US/Taiwan maintain a high level if deterrence China won't invade. Russia invaded Ukraine because (supposedly) Pu
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
They are spending all of their cash on war production, which actually (combined with workforce shortages leading to higher wages) has resulted in unexpectedly high GDP growth. However that's mostly fuelled by Russia spending all of the
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> real dollar GDP' is not. So you are saying that PPP adjusted GDP is not real and that you believe that Italy actually has larger GDP than Russia (which it does if we measure it in actual non-adjusted money/$)?
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
Well.. it depends what you but with that money. If you only buy Russian goods (lol) then PPP makes sense. Foreign imports? Not so much. Of course Chinese cars and some goods presumably would be quite a bit cheaper than in Italy due to no ta
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
> it's just that their currency is also losing ground against the USD even as they grow. USD/EUR is pretty much where it was back in 2015 despite of the swings (in both directions) since then. The Euro crashed in 2014 there was
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
Was it? The were perfectly fine with ignoring the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis killed by Saddam's government during the revolt they instigated in 1991 because they didn't want to get involved or remove him from power at the tim
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
So are you trying to equate Britain and Russia because of something that the MI6 did over 60 years ago? Seems a bit absurd...
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by Wytwwww 2y ago
Perhaps. However on the whole not particularly worse what the local governments were already doing there (more so in Iraq, though)

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