Yes and no. I suspect the enthusiast PC market was on shaky ground from a profit point of view for a long time. I'm honestly surprised the consumer RAM industry supported so many companies providing a product which largely struggled to differentiate itself beyond anything other than blinking LEDs.

The term long-term customer base implies some kind of loyalty which I don't think exists in this market. RAM is a pretty fungible thing and most people just buy whatever suits their performance requirements from whatever company suits the price point. If they leave yeah it hurts us, but I doubt there's negative market implications to this if they decide to reverse course in a few years and start selling again.

I suspect their actual loyal customers are the likes of Dell, HP, Lenovo etc. who very much still have access to their chips.

I never said the GP did. A wise man once wrote on the internet something relevant for you, I'll quote it for you here: "Learn to read fucking dumbass"

Get some professional help buddy. You need it. Before you hurt yourself.

Less than 50 of those provide comprehensive character sets. And a quick flick through them shows a complete lack of creativity between them.

This would make sense if this were something new, but it's not. Bait and Switch are normally short lived scams. We're talking about dropping a plan that has existed for decades, which leads me to the question: why now?

This clearly wasn't a gameplan from the beginning and it would seem that the bigger problem is that there's *no* alternate plan. Rather it looks like the American Mothership is trying to milk some money out of its subsidiary.

And yet the dog being hit still the fault of the owner who put it in harms way. Kind of hard to hit a leashed dog on the sidewalk.

No one is promoting ARM for the purposes of emulating x86. The fact that some efficiency is lost while doing emulation has nothing to do with why a vendor is using ARM.

Yes we've seen it chug, and we've seen it run well. There are wild performance differences between workloads. We've also seen Mac do the same thing, except better, eliminating the chug part and demonstrating that emulation is viable for day to day work as well.

How? Not technically, but from a business point of view. How do you convince people to change their practices for a niche use case that will generate fuck-all in product sales? Maybe this is actually their end goal, but emulation has to be the stepping stone or the entire industry will write you off not so much as an "also-ran" but a "never-started".

You don't have a choice of one or the other. You usually have a choice of one or nothing. Making native games for niche platforms is not worth the time and investment of developers.

It doesn't solve a fundamental issue of style though. Is the government going to do this job 10 times? 20 times? A font exists and can be used, the question is do you want every product to look the same?

Errr no. Musk hasn't done the same thing. The only thing he's been called out an idiot for are precisely the things he was doing that were idiotic. Many of those ideas have been reverted or in other ways found to be completely impractical by his own engineering teams.

No one called him an idiot because this first rockets failed, they called him an idiot for specific reasons, and the specific things he says (which largely have proven false especially in his timelines). Please don't show your overt fanboism like this in public, keep that shit for your bedroom.

who proposed Apple simply pull out of India, or criticised Apple for not following "local laws". Everyone seems to jump to some extreme end-point in every debate, completely forgetting that most such issues are sorted out one way or the other along the way.

Yes laws need to be obeyed, that doesn't mean you can't fight against them in the process, especially if you have the money to weather fines and start a legal battle in the process.

We don't need to guess and go out and talk to kids. The statistics can be looked up. Depending on studies GenZers are only about 10-20% behind Millenials. If you then look at the general distribution of *when* people get tattoos you can expect GenZ's percentage to increase further over time while Millennial's are unlikely to change from this point forward.

Anecdotes and soundbites are irrelevant.

Indeed, but when your opinions don't fit facts (such as the fact that 25% of millennials don't actually have a criminal record) just know you run the risk of having other people form the opinion that you're a judgmental arsehole.

I'm not sure what your point is. My point is there's no significant differences between generations and Gen-Z also have plenty of tattoos. Is your point that 1/3rd of people is not a big number, and that 1/3rd of people have poor self-image? If so WOW.

My anecdote: The only people I know with tattoos are those with such good confidence in their self-image that they happily display their body as a canvas. Very much the opposite of what you say.

Before I hit submit I decided to see if there was any information as to your comment. Turns out this has been studied: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/a... and it turns out only 10% of tattooed people have body image problems. Doesn't really fit your view does it...

No why would I be triggered? I'm not a Gen-Zer, I just really like pointing out that you frequently say very stupid things.

That's insightful, what open source alternatives do you propose? There's hundreds for our alphabet, but there's fuck-all out there for Japanese / Chinese, many thanks to literally thousands of glyphs existing in the language.

Here's one character https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... just one of the several thousands which has more strokes than the entire Latin alphabet, Greek alphabet, including both lower case and upper case combined.

There's multiple orders of magnitude more complexity here with multiple orders of magnitude less demand for the work. It's just not a good target for open source.