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This is one case where misspelling ‘affect’ works.

Free, except for the amortized R&D and construction costs.

It's called Mirror Accusation, aka projection, and it's a method used by authoritarian regimes to ascribe their motives onto their opponents. Usually it indicates what is coming next.

This is why I am very concerned about what all the 'white genocide' talk means... they are teeing up for some very nasty shit.

They are in some jurisdictions.

Deaf people compensate with a lifetime of experience.

Fuck dangerously earplugged or headphoned drivers.

If the analytics cross over a certain threshold, trigger an ad.

This is extremely simple and does not require an LLM.

Battery would be grand for a household solar install. Seats would be nice on the porch. The frunk can hold a lot of chicken feed, and the cabin would make a fine henhouse for a small flock.

That cadence…

I think you two are missing each other. One is regionally focussed and responding to the immediacy of a regional crisis; the rhetoric is to encourage action that will alleviate the regional crisis, including an appeal to globalism. The other is enforcing a global viewpoint that tries to trump any regional concerns out of principle and the rhetoric is aimed at the global forum that is lemmy.

Horse vs pony. Whatever, people.

The quibbles over the categorization niceties turn into accusations of racism. Which may or may not be active in this situation but the evidence is not established well enough for the accusation, which is simply a rhetorical trump card here.

Sadly, the state of discourse is so poisonous that ethnicity, which is real, is being swapped out for race, which is not real.

Not me, I was only able to get 10³³ year amortization on mine.

It's not their argument, they are just reporting. Chill out.

Country Grocer

how would you know which places to patrol, and when?

This is an extremely regional problem to solve. Where I am, which is a village and exurban-ruural, you would go to the electronics recycling depot and see if they have any choice items. Also you could call the various independent pc repair people to see if they have anything no longer supported but functional for free or cheap.

Also there's various thrift stores that sometimes have computers cheap.

The closest big city is Vancouver so to curb cruise there I would pick upper middle class neighbourhoods with alleyways, and drive around on garbage collection days. I wouldn't really dumpster dive unless I knew of a likely source from hearsay.

I do basic video editing, transcoding, front end coding and graphics, and usually push my machine pretty hard. But not for really long stretches. It's bursty work, so an Air is ideal. If I were to need a desktop replacement I would get a 15" Air with 24 GB RAM.

Long compiles? Renders of 4k video over 30mins and on the clock? Get a pro.

You're being downvoted but it's true, they are very difficult to repair and non modular so some parts are crazy expensive. Broken display ribbon cable? $20 replacement cable? Nah it's a whole new hi-res aluminum shell display for you!

But to be fair I don't expect to be repairing many of the M1 Airs, it's a very mature design, 10 years of form factor iteration and a small low power logic board. I’ve hardly worked on any of them, though I own one myself. A few abused batteries are starting to need replacing. It’s just the freaking batteries are glued in, so so stupid; not a reliability problem but an extra half hour of work over screws when replacing the battery.

Yeah it's been in the 'best deal going' category since it came out. Very capable yet fist-sized.

It's not just the low sticker price. It will save on electricity bills over its lifetime, and it is expected to be reliable like all the mac minis. Get less storage and add a nice fast external SSD drive to save money.

The base 16GB RAM is probably fine for most, but if you're going to try and get 8-10 years out of it, like a lot of Mac owners do, go for 24 or more.

It can do moderate gaming and the emulation and virtualization future looks good.

It is very possible to limit your interaction with apple, avoid the App Store, not get an apple account, limit the telemetry leakage somewhat, and run software that's open source or direct from its publishers.

Also: Asahi Linux will work. Eventually.

Thralls of the Archons serve a feast of suffering.

Scenario: Israel strikes Iran with missiles, but this time Iran responds for real, with many dead. Maga shithawks jump on the conflict like they've been drooling to. Escalation spreads to Iraq and the arabian peninsula. Russia leans in heavily but in other theatres, chaotically. The E.U. steps in under the guise of defence, and with internal tensions stretched thin due to authoritarian members of the union. Ukraine gets more intense as China assists Russia more openly and the USA pulls out.

While things are peaking elsewhere, the PRC makes a move on Taiwan. Shit gets real everywhere, multiple African nations pulled in. Layers upon layers of conflict reflect the global complexity of it all.

Fuck Sobey's with an artichoke.

They bought Thrifty Foods here on the west coast and the purchasing became less local, staffing policies got shittier, pricing got worse, and it generally just fell into boycott territory for me.

The locally based grocery chain that remains here is pretty good so we still have that, but choice vanished, thanks capitalism.