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People here buy desktops only for gaming/content creation, which means most households here doesn't need/require a desktop.

You just described the entire world. This is far from unique to India. Most people I know don't have a desktop and maybe have a laptop, and I live in North America.

Pretty sure that they mean that most people's only device is a phone. Desktops and laptops are basically the same thing, packaged slightly differently.

• if you want to upgrade the OS, you have to pay once again,

That used to be the case for Mac OS, but it hasn't been true for a number of years.

but this doesn't work if your hardware model stops being supported. Why pay for something with a limited life expectancy?

That's an issue with all IT products and a lot are worse than Apple products.

Also, if you're talking solely about Macs, then be aware that Mac-specific Linux projects exist to keep older machines running for longer.

• you cannot get rid of bloatware, only hide it

That's also true on other OSes, like Android and Windows 11.

• software is made specifically to be only compatible within their ecosystem. If you want to build up on existing software and hardware, you either stay in their system and keep paying them or start anew with a freer alternative.

The idea is that in the best case, everything works out of the box. You often don't get that with less-integrated solutions.

• I find it ridiculous they use fancy names to name even their support staff instead of just calling it support staff. Why make things complicated?

That is presumably to try to market Apple as an upscale brand. But does it actually bother you as a customer?

• I don't understand why they use pentalobe screws instead or regular ones (with a line or a cross section)

Apple wants you to pay for repairs, I think we can safely say that. They're not unique there either, though maybe more persistent on that front than most other manufacturers.

H is for half year. So, H1 = first half of the year.

Also, I never knew the four-digit build numbers were related to months. I always thought they were just creating builds and seeing which ones stick. Those that didn't wouldn't be shipped.

They could’ve sold Windows 2000 as Windows NT 5 and Windows Me as Windows 2000; that would’ve kept the “NT X” versioning scheme for the professional line and the year-based scheme for the consumer line.

That's true of course. But iirc, Microsoft itself was on the fence of whether to release Me at all or whether to go straight to what would become XP, the release that united both lines of Windows. I guess that might explain somewhat why the NT product people felt it ok to steal the year-based versioning scheme of DOS-based Windows..?

Actually, you're speaking about three product lines: Xboxes, regular old Windows, and Windows NT. Hence also the weird contortions with Windows Me ("Millennium Edition"): They couldn't name it Windows 2000, because that version had been released half a year earlier. They couldn't really name it Windows 2001 either, because that would have implied it being better than (or even related to) Windows 2000.

Sorry if my comment came across overly braggy. Couldn't help myself.

Ok. I got the stigma thing mostly from movies, so I guess I need to watch fewer crime procedurals. :) I'll edit the comment...

Unlimited calls/texts and 5GB in Germany is currently around 8,99€/28d on prepaid (incl. VAT). Yet Germany is one of the more expensive countries in the EU. Prepaid plans from most other EU countries would likely not be cheaper but include more data. E.g. 3 Austria has a postpaid plan for 12,99€/m that includes 40 GB of data and unlimited calls/texts (that's randomly the first provider I looked at).

Back in Germany, you can also get super-expensive postpaid plans with a device included of course. Economically, for private users that usually makes no sense though. These plans are often used for corporate phones or by people who want bragging rights.

(On the flip side, I guess the pricing pressure may be part of what apparently drives telecom companies to outsource even more of their business functions here than they do in the US.)

You might be European as well (as am I). I supect the poster is from North America. And North America is a little special when it comes to phone/internet service (as in: almost universally, they pay a lot but always have the latest devices on their contact). Afaik, prepaid is mostly dead at least in the US, always was more expensive than in the EU and always had a bad rap due to usage for "burner" phones. [edited: struck part of the sentence, see below]

I've looked at "low-cost" mobile providers like Ting some time ago and shuddered at the prices.

Mozilla actually had a short-lived "organic software" marketing campaign that was supposed to appeal to people visiting farmer's markets or something. Can't really find their original marketing page anymore, but while remembering this kinda marks my age, I am not just imagining it (source 2).

I am not using it, but you can also try Opensuse Kubic. The twist here is that you don't get a completely immutable ISO-type base installation but rather you have an at-boot updateable/customizable base installation image that can't be changed while the OS is running.

Not to be overly cynical, but including competitors can make sense from an SEO perspective, because it means people may find your site while searching for a competing distro.

It's the name of the app.

Some companies have switched to Fluorine-free waterproofing chemicals (e.g. Deuter for backpacks). Iirc, there's even a Fluorine-free version of Goretex nowadays. I haven't really looked into whether these materials are this much better though.

This appears to be the calculator: https://www.websitecarbon.com/

And it only appears to check the size of downloaded assets and then whether the hosting provider is known to use renewables. Indeed not terribly exhaustive or useful.

Have you looked at Xiaomi's own offerings?—they do have "compact" power banks. Not sure if those are compact enough for you though.

That's three different things:

• Joyn - paid private streaming platform (probably geo-restricted as well)
• Mediathekview - inofficial search engine for ARD/ZDF/Arte/SRF/ORF streaming platforms (free, but geo-restricted)
• ARD-Mediathek - ARD streaming platform (free, geo-restricted)

I am not sure I would necessarily call them a "good company" either.

If we're being honest, the phone project was a delusion from the start—the company is simply way too small to build a phone from components that were never meant to be in phones and have it actually work properly. At this point, can you finally even use the phone to call people via 2G/4G? Have they gotten beyond the sub-24h standby battery life? Have they got the bandwidth to handle the security reviews of the kill switches in their phones?

In the plus side, I appreciate that they invested in implementing adaptive layouts in Gnome. But the Linux space is littered with unsuccessful startups who all left their pawprints in code. Usually then allowing Red Hat and other big players (or, in the desktop space: a community) to build upon that code.

Yeah ... My cursory knowledge about Purism says that's a very risky investment.

Cum jar?