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Comment Re:It'll be a previous generation MacBook Air (Score 1) 70

Dumb response. I ran the same applications I run on my windows laptops: Office (full suite), Firefox, Edge (works better for some work SaaS apps), etc. Almost exactly the scenario you mention "doesn't do so well" on Windows. On a 8GB Windows machine it would have been painfully obvious it was resource starved. How the OS manages swap makes a huge difference so no, the OS is not irrelevant here.

Comment Re:It'll be a previous generation MacBook Air (Score 5, Interesting) 70

I have the exact same spec M1 Air, also bought for testing when it first came out. I used to use it for onsite meetings back when those were still a thing for me as well since it was lighter than my windows laptop at the time and the battery life was just so much better. I keep it around the house these days for web browsing and such. I never had an issue with it when it came to performance. I've come to the conclusion that MacOS is just miles ahead of Windows when it comes to memory management.

Comment Re:When a crisis, isn't. (Score 1) 37

While i share the general sentiment of this post, may i suggest the elderly are supposed to do physical exercises like anyone else ? The are also much more at risk of losing their health fast if they don't move enough.

I didn't realize owning a gaming console and physical exercise was an either/or situation.

Comment Re:"reimagines" (Score 1) 49

I was right, /.ers really will complain about anything!

Seriously though, I kind of agree. I forget they are still around. They do still make sound cards and a bunch of other audio gear (speakers, headphones, DACs, etc) but it's a name you almost never hear anyone talk about, at least in the present tense.

Comment Re:"2% of Amazon.com’s sales" (Score 1) 149

This. I'm so sick of the "They haven't made a profit..." tripe. They are in their growth phase in a rapidly growing and evolving market. None of their investors expect them to be making a profit right now. They could make a profit tomorrow if they stopped reinvesting their revenue in building out the company and started to coast. Of course they would be quickly outpaced by their competitors.

Comment Re:is it "the decline of smart homes" (Score 1) 155

I wanted that feature for my dryer when I lived in a townhouse and it was two flights of stairs down to go check if it was done (it's a sensor dryer so no telling when it would finish). Now that I'm in a house with everything on one floor I couldn't care.

Comment Re:Antivaxers! (Score 1) 67

the amount of mercury in a single filling

Not a valid comparison, as most of that mercury stays in the tooth. Actual release is less than 5 microgram per day, as a gas which is breathed in. A vaccine with thimerosal might have 25 micrograms, similar to a very small can of tuna, i.e. bugger all.

Mercury fillings release more, but still only around a milligram per year. Multiplied by billions of fillings, that is still a very tiny fraction of the thousands of tons of mercury released into the environment every year.

You realize you just proved my comparison is valid, right? Your numbers, literally, show exactly what I stated.

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