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Comment Re:8GB is only to claim lower starting price... (Score 1) 463

Very highly doubtful. Apple's better memory management through compression & faster access to the on-module RAM have made the expectations of those used to x86 laptops overestimate the RAM needed for all but the most demanding workloads, as has been seen time and time again by those who actually used one. Come on admit it, you're basing your opinion on a win/linux PC & not through actual use of a M1/2/3 Mac with 8Gb.

Comment Re:It's Plenty (Score 1) 463

iPhone users don’t have to care, they’re not using the RAM overconsumption shit sandwich of Android+Chrome.

As is so often the case, the non iPhone users wrongly consider their pachydermic use cases to be EVERYONE’s use cases.

Comment Re:8GB is only to claim lower starting price... (Score 1) 463

8Gb is more than enough for my mother’s MB Air. She only uses Safari, iMessage and Pages. That’s many tasks as Apple correctly said and she does not need a pompous self entitled PC Gamer “journalist” with slovenly multiple tab habits to tell her that she should have paid $200 more for her Mac.

My Mac’s have more memory, but then I run multiple VM’s and don’t need the advice of a pompous self entitled PC Gamer “journalist” to know how much RAM I need either.

Comment AR (Score 1) 222

The underfunded state of the FAA has forced SpaceX to launch less often than than they would have were they not waiting on overworked FAA officials to approve launch licences. SpaceX's development model is to iterate quickly: design, build, test (launch), redesign, build, test (launch), etc. The FAA's pace of delivering launch licenses has slowed this process down to the point where SpaceX scraps Spaceships that they would normally have flown but could not because SpaceX builds the biggest rockets ever built faster than the FAA licenses.

SpaceX already proposed LAST YEAR to finance the FAA so that they can staff up to the level SpaceX will need them to be, making TFA's baitclicky "Biden Takes Aim At SpaceX's Tax-Free Ride In American Airspace" about as close to reality as utterances from Trump or Putin.

Comment Re:What crime (Score 1) 151

And here I was thinking it was the practical application of a rather new technology, Radar, that warned the RAF fighters suddenly long before the German planes crossed the channel to do their attacking.

What RAF fighters? Without the lend-lease destroyers U-boats would have won the war in the Atlantic at the beginning of the war. England depended on the US for food, aluminum, rubber, high octane and everything else that barely allowed England to resist Hitler. Absent the means to counter the U-boats England's inability to feed it's population by itself turns into a starving population unable to build & fly the planes that won the BoB.

And it is also a lot easier to planes

It's always easier with imaginary planes England wouldn't have been able to build without US support.

I also understood that Nazi Germany knew very well how to turn coal into the type of fuel they needed for their machinery.

Germany would not have had to resort to coal liquefaction. Absent US support, no bomber raids on Ploesti, also no support for the Russians so Hitler makes it to Baku.

To come back to the point, Manning and Assange are most certainly the "lesser" variants of journalists and sources.

Claiming to be a journalists or a source does not give anyone a blanket license to commit crimes as you seem to think. Both the US & England have court systems that are used to make those who break laws face justice.

I would certainly think that even if Assange was walked to the US courts under bodyguard supervision, he would die from a car having a hiccup, which miraculously missed all of his bodyguards.

Key words: "you think". Assange supporters like you have been consistently dreaming up nightmare scenarios and claiming that they are the reality as if you were Trump or Putin.

There is unfortunately a lot of spite going on at the other side of the pond, I'm afraid. Result == the same a s a death penalty, except with a lot less bad press.

A criminal facing justice != spite or hate and your imagination is a piss poor substitute for reality.

Comment Re:What crime (Score 1) 151

You are performing a Soviet style rewriting of history, not in defense of England but in a poor defense of Assange

Without the lend-lease destroyers and American ships and resources, German U boats would have starved both the English war building economy and the English people into submission. As it was, the Battle of Britain was a close affair and with much less ressources needed to build the spits and hurris, without the high octane gasoline needed to fuel them and without all the other resources England desperately needed & the USA supplied it would have been impossible to defend against the Luftwaffe.

Comment Re:Uniparty in action (Score 3, Insightful) 215

Not crazy to me. Manning was condemned and did time in prison for violating his oaths and breaking the law. That he was pardoned afterwards afterwards does not change the fact that he was condemned. Assange (like Trump) thinks that he's above all laws and I hope both end up in prison to show them both that they are not.

Comment Re:Perfect policy (Score 1) 301

Maybe from wherever macrotrends invents their numbers but not from Paris in THIS universe.

Try Googling for "Paris population perte" and educate yourself instead of reading fake news. Every article describes how Paris has been losing people over the past decade.
https://www.leparisien.fr/pari...
https://www.nationalgeographic...
https://www.20minutes.fr/paris...
https://www.tf1info.fr/societe...
https://actu.fr/ile-de-france/...
https://www.capital.fr/economi...

Comment Re:Perfect policy (Score 1) 301

"The People"? Hardly. Less than 7% of Parisians voted and the difference between yae's and nay's is less than the number of people who have left Paris (in large part due to her highness's anti-car building spree) over the last 5 years. A majority of those leaving Paris are with people with kids & the number of school children is thus in free fall

Comment Re:Um... I get that you don't like Unions (Score 1) 122

If “the Swedish people *love* unions.“ were true then union members would be in the majority of Tesla Sweden employees. However, we all know that the initial union support in Tesla was under 15% and with people going back to work and the union throwing everyone who continues to work@Tesla out of the union, it’s way below 10%.

“Tesla is the only major car company making electrics, even in Europe.“: Stares at the fleet of company cars in the parking garage below our office building and consults the 2022-2025 company wide plan that we have to replace all of our leased ICE cars with EV’s. 60% of our employees drive company cars and we have >10k employees. Europe clearly isn’t as fast as China in moving to EV’s but your global dismissal of EU manufactured EV’s is just ignorance and/or no true Scotsman level rhetoric.

Comment Re:Lost me as a customer (Score 4, Interesting) 164

Having rented a Tesla to a few weeks, I didn’t miss AirPlay, which I normally use exclusively over all the other OEM phone integrations I’d used until then. Tesla’s implementation of Maps and integration with the phones for calls was more than good enough for me to not mind and in the case of Maps, Teslas integration with the battery management optimized trip routing and prepped the battery to mimimize charging time.

So I’m mostly with everyone on forswearing GM in their Data selling, junk gui but it IS possible for OEMs to deliver a good GUI if they are a tech firm like Tesla even if the GMs of the world butcher theirs.

Comment Re:Huh, what? (Score 1) 34

All true, I'll just add that what El Fantasmo is certainly ignorant of is that the usage that Plex shut down wasn't people using the Free Plex distribution but Plex users that use a Plex Pass to have their Plex Server host content to others over the Internet. In this case they are explicitly using Plex's plex.tv servers to act as a go-between between the users and the server giving them connection counts and served media info. The major advantage to using plex.tv is that it just works and isolates the hosting Plex servers from direct connections from potentially malicious clients.

If you trust your users and know how to setup secure VPN connections to your LAN, turn off the connection to Plex.tv on the server & just have your friends/family connect to your Plex server over your VPN like I do.

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