Can't kill what is already dead.
The communities are all but gone.
The signal to noise ratio is the worst it's ever been.
Most subs are barely moderated. Actual mod involvement (as opposed to Automod) is low.
Reddit now openly collects and sells user data.
The Reddit we knew is dead and gone.
I doubt it's because it's a competing service and it's more likely because it's a .io TLD... which is notorious for being used by phishers, spammers, and scammers unfortunately.
Sadly, the brainwashing has been so effective that those who buy it never noticed that those gaslighting people into believing that no government system (eg, single payer) could ever work are the ones (Republicans) doing their best to ensure that government remains as broken as possible.
More people believe that our system is fucked than those who think this kind of system is normal.
We're just faced with so many hurdles, gerrymandering, red states that exist only because of minority representation have more power over larger population areas (districts by size and not population, electoral college) ... The majority of the country is merely surviving and the apathy sets in. I remind people that voting fascists out is the only way things are going to change and often the response is "Well, I tried that once and it didn't work." So they stop showing up to vote. Or they buy into the 'both sides' BS and post lame memes on Facebook and Reddit.
A lot of us really are painfully aware of how fucked it is.
I'll second Proton. It sucks to have to pay for services again to have something that matches the generous free shit that we got before... but seems those wild west days of the internet, unless you were grandfathered on or have to give up a lot of info in return... are now long gone.
In hindsight...
How it was all reported in the media, commented on... was pretty fucking gross. Especially since the kid who made the allegations admitted to lying.
Nothing was held back on for the court of public opinion. Police statements amounted to "We found creepy dolls that only can be used for grooming..." "He had [this] because [he's definitely that]..." Later on the same police were caught giving adult magazines from the raid to one of the kids they claimed Michael molested... several months AFTER the raid... and then bagged the magazine for fingerprints. The way everything was handled, even if generously... we could admit that Michael was a bit of a kooky freak... the way the raid, reporting on evidence gathering (and apparent manufacturing of it) and prosecution was handled, that part of it seemed straight up corrupt.
There was always a tinge of ick about it all.
At best, Michael was a deeply damaged person who did whatever he could to cope with the loss of his childhood and... we'll never know what truly happened at the Ranch.
"evidence found at neverland ranch" turns up a lot of results, admittedly, with far too much commentary and speculation describing "must have been used for..." rather than what may actually have been the case.
My guess will be hibernation file and swap. If any of those had suspend to disk enabled, the hibernation file will be the same size as installed Ram... which can take up a good percentage of that used space. I have a pretty bloated xUbuntu install on my system right now and it's sitting at 10.6GB. Including swap and /home, but no hibernation file.
First time I was prompted for a username, I happened to have a Roadkill Cafe poster on my wall. Couldn't find anything better in my room unless I was going to use "LampBookDumbassCat"
They 'allow' people to delete their posts and accounts...
But never actually delete anything from their databases. I've had years-old comments I deleted mysteriously reappear despite being gone for months.
While also reducing the amount of that 8GB that is available to the system with the "unified memory" bullshit because they're too cheap to give the GPU dedicated ram.
Take care not to make statements so inaccurate they are effectively meaningless.
"US white bread" isn't a singular brand and most brands don't "contain[s] a carcinogen"...
You never mentioned what the carcinogen was. Probably because it would compromise your argument that "US white bread" as a whole contains it when it does not. (It's Potassium Bromate/Bromide (it's used interchangeably online sometimes), for those wondering.)
It's not limited to white bread in where it can be used. It was an additive to flour in general.
A lot of the fear mongering blogs, written by 'influencers' whose research consists of 10 seconds of Googling but not verifying a single fucking thing they write about, name brands that contain potassium bromate... but actually don't. Example: Wonder bread (https://wonderbread.ca/our\_products/white-bread-675g/) Chex Mix. Looking up their ingredients list shows the item in question is not used at all. https://www.chexmix.com/products/chex-mix-traditional/
TLDR: Think before you repeat vague, meaningless shit next time.
BTW, You should look into the horrors of Dihydrogen Monoxide.
Not always true: Not all physical copies contain full copies of the game and will require downloads before the game can be played.
Animal Crossing being a prime example. Mario Kart 8 requires 4.4 GIGABYTES to be downloaded before the game is playable. There have also been cart revisions where earlier versions of the game were complete on the cart... and newer versions of a cart were partial and required downloads as a cost saving measure.
Android devices with a non-deadlocked bootloader can be reflashed to have de-googled builds of Android. LineageOS isn't completely de-googled (it's damn close to it) but you can put that on any supported device without GApps and use it that way.
Apple is completely deadlocked, through and through, and you cannot de-Apple without completely abandoning their platform.
Android is “open” i guess, but it’s crammed full of adware and trackers and all sorts of garbage.
That's a bit hyperbolic and unfair to the point of being misleading.
"Android" is not one universal type of phone operating system. It, like Linux, has various distributions. Samsung makes their own version. as does Motorola, as does HTC and Nokia, as does OnePlus, Huawei, etc... The version of Android that comes with a Samsung phone is radically different than what comes with a Motorola phone. You cannot blame Google for what Samsung decides to include on their own strain of Android. You cannot blame Google for what shady Chinese brands put on their hardware.
Want an Android device that isn't crammed full of adware, trackers and all sorts of garbage? Stop buying garbage devices from garbage OEMs.
Motorola and Google are the two that (shock, surprise!) are the most open, always have unlocked bootloaders when bought directly and not through a carrier and have the most well supported devices if you decide to go with a custom rom.
Ah, so you didn't come here to discuss... you came here to evangelize. Way to completely dance around my original point about unified memory.
My 15” MacBook Air M2 with 24gb of ram was under $2000, with the HDD upgrade.
Okay? And? You still paid 2 grand for a system with fixed specs and an SSD that can't be replaced when its writes are exhausted.
For the MacBook Air... 256GB to 512GB, 512GB to 1TB, 1TB to 2TB storage upgrades are all in $200 increments.
So you're paying Apple $800 extra to get 2TB of storage with your Macbook Air. Fixed. Permanent. Non replaceable.
Meanwhile I can put this: https://i.imgur.com/VOo7hdT.png in my laptop right now for about the same cost as your 256GB to 512GB upgrade... any time I wish... without having to replace the entire device and buy a new one in order to do so.
But yes, let's move goalposts and I'll waste my time "find[ing you] a PC that can benchmark the same for under that."
You know why it's a waste of time? Because you can't run MacOS on anything I'd find, and my programs and apps run on x86 processors. Gaming is a distant afterthought for Apple's systems. You guys like to pretend "oooh wheee, I'm efficient! No, wait, I'm faster!" changing whatever goal net you're aiming for depending on what points you want to score while ignoring everything else that is being brought up.
And when I do present you with a better configuration, the new goalpost will be battery life.
But I'll play your stupid game anyway.
Closest CPU to the M2 8 Core in your Macbook Air is the Ryzen 5 5600U. Performs about the same overall despite having two less cores. Neat.
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/4922vs4284/Apple-M2-8-Core-3500-MHz-vs-AMD-Ryzen-5-5600U
So I picked a laptop at random that has it: The HP ProBook 455 G8.
Right now I can buy it on Amazon for $649. New. https://i.imgur.com/kWVL8Qy.png
HP ProBook 455 G8 15.6" Notebook - AMD Ryzen 5 5600U Hexa-core (6 Core) 2.30GHz - 8GB RAM - 256GB SSD - Windows 10 Pro - AMD Radeon Vega Graphics
Two DDR4 ram sockets, takes PCIe NVMe SSDs for storage upgrades.
Let's throw that 2TB SSD into it that I found. Now the price is $868.
Gotta upgrade that ram. 2x16GB SODIMM DDR4 is about $67. https://i.imgur.com/Y1jogbd.png
$935 total. So it looks like I can get a system that performs the same as your $2000 MBA for less than the cost of the base MBA. But also has 8 times the storage and 4 times the ram compared with the base MBA. $1299 versus $935.
Make sure it’s the same size and the screen is comparable.
Oops, I forgot to check the specs of the screen. Silly me.
The Macbook Air M2 screen is 2560 x 1664 and...
39.62 cm (15.6 in) diagonal FHD UWVA eDP and PSR anti-glare, low power narrow bezel bent, 400 nits, 100% sRGB for HD camera (1920 x 1080)
...the HP's is 1920x1080.
Oh darn it, you got me. Your goalpost moving resulted in a win. I guess I'll just take the $1064 I saved over your config and stroke my cock with it. Meanwhile, the HP comes with a 65 Watt power brick by default instead of the MBA's underpowered 35 watter, has more than twice as many ports... and a major bonus to me: It doesn't run the abomination that is MacOS. (PS: I don't like or use Windows either, so you can go ahead and skip that expected drivel you have in your pocket about Micro$uck.)
I dont think it will be that extreme, being a liberal in America will be like being a liberal in America during the red scare.
How naive.
Unified memory architectures can offer significant performance benefits by reducing latency and increasing efficiency in data transfer between the CPU and GPU.
Eh. Memory bandwidth between CPU and GPU isn't generally an issue at all on PCIe4 systems with a dGPU. "Unified memory" is just Apple's way of marketing the lack of a separate pool of memory that the GPU has exclusive access to. It's not anything special in of itself. It's how every mobile device is set up, including Android based phones. Intel iGPUs do the same thing and there's no performance benefit to consuming system ram over giving a GPU its own pool. If anything, it's a performance limitation.
I'd much rather a dGPU have exclusive access to its own memory over pulling from a system that is already starved with 8GB.
However, I can’t really imagine anyone who knows they need more RAM, not buying more RAM.
Oh, but that's the fun part. All configurations of Apple hardware short of the Pro towers have fixed, soldered and non-upgradeable Ram and Storage.
So while Apple users get to enjoy being memory starved at 8GB... they can't increase the amount of ram for anything else short of replacing the entire system. Suppose you bought the base Mac Mini.
https://i.imgur.com/i7eEeNh.png
The price difference between that with 8GB Ram and 256GB SSD... And the only option with 16GB Ram, albeit with 256GB more storage and 2 additional CPU cores...
is $700.
Meanwhile on the non-Apple side of things...
https://i.imgur.com/lutKPtR.png
You can get 64GB Ram, 2TB PCIe4 NVME Storage and a dedicated GPU with 12GB Ram for $100 less than Apple's 'upgrade' price which... really isn't an upgrade price since you have to completely replace the system if you want more ram or storage. So rather than spending $700 to upgrade a system you have, you have the luxury of spending $1300 instead. To go from 8 to 16GB ram.
What Apple is doing here is unconscionable... and people eat their marketing bullshit right up.
Then don't remove snaps and you don't have to mess with anything out of the box.
Way to out yourself as an iDevice troll. Shame y'all have the exact same bag of tricks cause we could see that coming from miles away... but that's just what happens when the extent of your understanding of technology relies on something being called 'magical' before you'll use it.
Shame that you don't really care to address Apple's longstanding habit of overcharging for outdated specs as it is especially egregious. Especially when you consider I had an HP Envy 13 laptop that had 3200x1800 resolution, 8GB Ram and 256GB SSD... That sold for under $1000... In 2015. ($849.99.)
Unfortunately there is a fair number of games with a physical release that require downloads to be playable as they are not complete on the cartridge.
I suspect you feel that way because it's easier to know what DOES mine you, free or paid, on Android, than it is on any other mobile OS. Consequentially, it's also easier to block such stuff on Android with custom dns, custom roms, root and a hosts file or using apps to track the trackers like Exodus. So, no, I disagree: You say it's highly limited when trying to avoid those kinds of apps... We have F-Droid and other third party app stores. There's a plethora of FOSS apps that can replace the common garbage data collecting apps out there. People just don't want to make the effort and look a little bit harder elsewhere for what they would feel more comfortable using. That's why we have privacy nightmares: people are lazy.
I wonder why they settled
Because they were engaged in code theft, piracy and Nintendo had them dead to rights. Leaked chats and drive folders showed they were actively pirating games, paywalling questionable content and using the Switch SDK. Clean room emulation implementations are completely legal. Their methods and behavior were not.
For first party stuff, Nintendo launches finished games
This wasn't true for several Nintendo games. Mario Kart 8, Animal Crossing and Zelda:Tears all required day one downloads.
Dude spent $44Bil just so he could behave like an insecure reddit mod...