My mom (78) got a new kindle a couple years ago, after the previous one lasting over 10 years.
She's not been using it now because "it's not okay" anymore. After a lot of poking and prodding remotely (we live in different countries) to get to understand what the issue was for the kindle to "not be okay", I managed to get her to tell me that "the screen is blank". I said I'd check it soon after when I went to her place.
When I travelled there, not long after, I checked the kindle, turned on the screen, and it was blank. Because she'd finished a book and the last page was blank. All worked fine.
I have told her, but she refuses to use the kindle because "it's not okay".
In a separate conversation I offered to give my sister my really old kindle as hers is actually broken. My mom heard that and said she wanted it because hers is... Not okay.
The insistence and willful ignoring of what I said is the most infuriating part.
Reuters?? An international news organisation that operates in more than 150 countries and that reports with almost emotionless reporting just based on facts? They are making up lies for hatred points? Are you also going to try to convince us they employ reptilians?
Over the past 5 years, I've installed ubuntu about 30 times on different computers. Not once has an install on an SSD taken me more than an hour, with it typically taking me 30 minutes or less except for rare occasions where I've messed something up.
It's the other way around, an Apple Silicon Mac would be able to run an intel binary through Rosetta (I think there's almost no exceptions at this point). It's intel macs that can't run Arm specific binaries.
I've been on titration with medikinet XL with 20 mg for a month which was ok, then after a review got told to try 30 mg for two weeks and 40 mg for two weeks.
30 mg made me feel a bit stressed at work, but nothing that bothered me. Like having 3 coffees when you have a lot going on and you need to get things done quickly. As you say, this feeling only lasts for a while only.
Now I've moved to 40mg and I hate it. Roughly 2-3 hours after taking it, I get exactly what you describe. I've been trying to explain it as a 7-coffee panic. Same situation as the above but with so much coffee in my body that I'm at the edge of having a meltdown and bursting into tears.
This, of course, comes with high blood pressure and heart rate. My understanding is with extended release you get a first "peak concentration", then lowers slowly, and you get a second peak at about 4h or so, depending on formulation. Yesterday, at a time I think matched the second peak roughly, I was watching a stress-free TV show on the sofa, in a stress-free environment with no tasks to do... And suddenly this feeling came in and I had almost 90bpm resting heart rate for no reason when I'm normally in the low 70s.
I hate it and on Monday (I have my next medication review) I'm going to ask for alternatives or to get put on 30mg. That made me productive and motivated but without feeling like I'm being motivated by panic.
No, but I remember seeing another recent poll about a year ago where the results were that about 20% of GenZ identify as LGBTQ.
This would imply that 10% is the acceptance rate (which has gone up "thanks to GenZ's contribution") and the actual rate is higher than this, but that part is missing from the information.
Also because, as a person who has studied multiple languages, German is hard and English is Easy with capital E.
No genders for nouns (German has three), no declinations, no conjugations other than "add an s for third person singular", somewhat permissive grammar...
It has its quirks, and pronunciation is the biggest one, but nowhere near German (or Russian!) declinations, Japanese kanjis, etc.
Out of the wannabe-esperanto languages, English is in my opinion the easiest one, so I'm thankful it's become the technical Lingua Franca.
It's UE in Spanish, from Unión Europea. (Non-doubled letters because it's a single Union, there's no plural like in "States").
Sometimes people in Spain do use the English acronyms for both EU/USA, but I don't think I've seen it often. Both UE and EEUU are more common from what I've seen, and also people rarely say these out loud, it's exclusively a written language problem.
I'm talking about running them in GPU, which favours the GPU even when the comparison is between an AMD Epyc and a mediocre GPU.
If you want to run a large version of deepseek R1 locally, with many quantized models being over 50GB, I think the cheapest Nvidia GPU that fits the bill is an A100 which you might find used for 6K.
For well under that price you can get a whole Mac Studio with those 192 GB the first poster in this thread mentioned.
I'm not saying this is for everyone, it's certainly not for me, but I don't think we can dismiss that there is a real niche where Apple has a genuine value proposition.
My old flatmate has a PhD in NLP and used to work in research, and he'd have gotten soooo much use out of >100 GB of RAM accessible to the GPU.
If it's for AI, loading huge models is something you can do with Macs but not easily in any other way.
I'm not saying many people have a use case at all for them, but if you have a use case where you want to run 60 GB models locally, a whole 192GB Mac Studio is cheaper than the GPU alone you need to run that if you were getting it from Nvidia.
So the lack of apple-branded AI Slop is slowing down the sales for iPhones but not for Macs?
Edit for clarity: I'm aware sequoia "has" apple intelligence but in a borderline featureless state, so it's as good (or as bad) as not having anything.
I recently discovered dupe.com , which works quite well by giving it an Amazon link and finding it on potentially cheaper, definitely non-Bezos websites.
Some of these are for insurance, government organisations... They are naturally dry but we can't get away from them.
Some others that I described like internal changelogs, I agree won't ever get read. Then if that's the case I don't care (much) about the quality - just about doing it as quickly as possible.
My mom (78) got a new kindle a couple years ago, after the previous one lasting over 10 years.
She's not been using it now because "it's not okay" anymore. After a lot of poking and prodding remotely (we live in different countries) to get to understand what the issue was for the kindle to "not be okay", I managed to get her to tell me that "the screen is blank". I said I'd check it soon after when I went to her place.
When I travelled there, not long after, I checked the kindle, turned on the screen, and it was blank. Because she'd finished a book and the last page was blank. All worked fine.
I have told her, but she refuses to use the kindle because "it's not okay".
In a separate conversation I offered to give my sister my really old kindle as hers is actually broken. My mom heard that and said she wanted it because hers is... Not okay.
The insistence and willful ignoring of what I said is the most infuriating part.