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You can buy a top CPU laptop then upgrade or even pay to upgrade with high quality ram and storage modules and you would still be paying less than an equivalent Mac. Which you can't upgrade of course, because the only option is buying as is out of the gate. No matter what Apple says, 32 GB of ram simply doesn't cost $300, their pricing is meant to fleece customers.

TERF is to feminism as modern liberal is to socialism. They only agree on certain topics by accident.

Not defending anything in particular. But at least in the books themselves it is explicit that magic is not a thing to figure out. You're either born capable of accessing magic or you aren't. A muggle can't reason their way into acquiring magic. The book's entire universe is based on the divide between those forced to exist within the confines of natural laws (muggles) and those capable of bending and breaking said rules to basically achieve whatever (wizards).

Fascist are oddly obsessed with paperwork. Reducing bureaucracy by increasing bureaucracy is part of the contradictions that fascism rely on.

I also worked on finance tech once. I agree with all you said, but the point is that a fancy sales pitch about a new bleeding edge server tech stack is not gonna change any of that because the customer doesn't care about the same things that developers care about.

If your users are aware and complaining about your tech stack, you failed as a Dev. The stack had nothing to do with it, its on you.

Edit: unless your customers are other devs, of course.

Banks.

Do you know why banks are still running COBOL on new, old architecture, IBM mainframes? Sure, it's in part due to risk aversion, ignorance and inertia. But it's also because, if in the end the result is the same, then the tech stack doesn't matter.

Very few people are tech fanatics, most people want results. They care when the products don't work. They don't care how you fix it as long as you fix it in a reasonable manner, within an acceptable timeframe at an affordable price.

Doesn't matter if the customer is a billion dollars bank or a social network. Debbie thinks javascript is when the barista puts her initials on her latte and rust is something to fear when it shows up under her car. Too many devs forget this.

It's the carrier's phone, not yours. That's how they offer such low prices.

What is a Trillium?

It's usually the electronic drivers. They overoverheat and degrade. Most burned LED bulbs still have working LEDs and just need to replace some component of the driver board.

Again, doesn't sound similar to me. There are plenty of exclusives both on the streaming and the videogames world. But the history on steam doesn't follow Netflix's history at all.

I think the problem is equating a public trade, stockholders driven service that is entirely in the gutter of service quality and shitty corporate behavior. With a private company that has a mostly solid ethic track record (with few exceptions) that offers unrivaled added value. Netflix already lost the streaming wars. Max exclusives will never go to Netflix, Disney would rather feed children to the pigs than share their IPs. While devs already negotiate time windows to end the exclusivity deals with Epic right out of the gate. Publishers will foam at the mouth about exclusivity just to release steam versions two years later. It's a massively different situation to Netflix.

Again, not comparable. Prime video, Disney+ and Max are all similar in subscribers size to Netflix. Steam is ten times larger than GOG in number of active users and twice as large as Epic.

Netflix is utter crap. Way over the other side of the enshittification fence. They only subsist due to user capture. They were first thus everyone seems to have an account. More akin to Facebook to social networks than steam to online videogame stores.

They still do. But projects like bluefin are striving to get rid of it entirely. Flatpak installation is not package management, they are containerized applications.

Only if you have the power to do so.

The package manager way of delivering distro management, updates and upgrades is an archaic and dumb idea. Doomed to fail since inception and the reason Linux never broke the 1% of users in forever. It's a bad model.

Atomic and immutable distribution of an OS is the preferred and successful model for the average user who wants a PC to be a tool and not a hobby on itself. I don't think the traditional package manager will ever go away. But there are alternatives now.

Bluesky was an EEE operation. Meant to kill federation by capturing users then forcing an instance monopoly. That's why it is federated on paper only. In practice no engineering was done to make it actually federated at all. Now they're far behind the Activity pub and mastodon, and the rest of the fediverse despite having much more investment.

Doctors use a special tube and basin with sterile water to unclog grave wax obstructions. Tweezers (also sterilized) for solid objects. Otherwise the average person should really just rub the outside with a towel to keep it dry. Very rarely people require special care, and the doctors will give precise instructions on what to do and how.

Ableist, racist white supremacist doing their ableist-racist-white-supremacist thing.

Only for OneDrive. SharePoint documents lock excel tables and only one person can edit at a time. Though multiple instances can see and update the changes as the locked version is updated. Something about credentials.