Protest doesn’t change nothing, it maintains and promotes political activism, which fights voter apathy. It’s hard to see the results of it directly so it feels like it doesn’t do anything, but studies show you get better voter turnout after protests.

Hahahahaha, so true

2/10

Well, two things. Three actually. First of all, no need to yell.

Secondly, the article didn’t make that point very well - it mentioned the mac mini (which IS a computer) and smartphones, both of which my macbook neo processor is a good analogy for. It also talked about m.2 SSD’s, and the RTX 5070 GPU in laptops. You can’t come in here and pretend you didn’t talk about computers.

But thirdly, even if that is your point, my response was mostly an example. We are not floundering for chips and you didn’t mention embedded processors or other things that “non-computer” devices use at all in the article, not even once, yet my more general point still stands. I don’t see any evidence that this will have the effect you claim it will.

Err I’m good thanks

Is this specific to a particular brand?

Kinda the same response to be honest, the chips are fast, in my contrived example the macbook neo runs on a binned iphone 16 chip with a broken core, yet it’s fine for most people.

When I was using computers in the late 90’s, the idea of a 10 year old computer was mental. My friend would be running windows 98 on his pentium 2, and if I had a 10 year old machine it would mean a machine from the goddam 80’s, it couldn’t run anything. The difference was night and day. Now, I use a desktop PC that I built 9 years ago, intel i5, nvidia 1080ti, and it runs honestly just fine for just about everything. Wasn’t even anywhere near the top of the range back then, apart from the graphics card it was practically budget.

We’re alright. Computers are so fast now. This is my hot take of the century maybe, but the latest and greatest is always expensive and computers have honestly almost never been so affordable performance to dollar, apart from the recent ram spikes.

I wouldn’t sweat it so much.

A nothing article is pretty bad. It’s the article equivalent of a reaction tiktok. It adds nothing to the conversation but raises heckles.

Nah you can just buy the US now on temu. 15.99 but somehow it’s magically 23.47 when you go to check out.

You’re taking this a little too literally. The point is you run a sub 2 marathon and only don’t get the record because someone broke the record literally 20 something seconds before you reached the line. That’s gotta hurt somehow

Hey, but if you had his shoes, he’d only have run a 5k 1.9x as fast as your best times!

Well, yeah.

How is “republicans lied” making the top post on this platform? It’s normal, and they keep doing it because we keep acting shocked every time, which slows us down. They stun lock us with hypocrisy and laugh at us every single time.

Stop acting shocked.

We’ll just pay out the nose or settle for less ram. Most consumers don’t need more than 8gb of ram anyway, see the macbook neo. And the world will keep turning.

This is prime clickbait by hooking onto an outrage sentiment but it doesn’t really deliver. I thought this place was gonna be smarter than reddit, and it is, but not by much. Ugh. I guess I should have stopped assuming I could ever go back to August again.

Everyone is so pressed about an on device model they’re not gonna even use. Like, yeah, it’s annoying, they should have told us, and it’s 4gb that could be taken off of my hard drive, but it’s a distraction from all the real issues out there that are much bigger that no one is complaining about.

Lol “sorry” - if they were sorry they would’ve given people warning.

Err, this is dumb as rocks. The shovels would be the hardware.

to be honest passwords on their own are on their way out as a form of security entirely for this reason - they’re inherently weak no matter how they’re stored as they’re a single point of failure. we’re even moving on from 2 factor to passkeys.

fair