"(who knew that biometrics wasn't a word? When did Mozilla decide this?)"

Most supplied dictionaries are trash, but yes, the Mozilla dictionary is especially horrible.

Even the Google dictionary is missing tons of words despite crowdsourcing (crowdsourcing being one of them, I just added it to my device) and even worse, the keyboard wants to type only banal words when you swipe, because the matches are apparently based more on crowdsourcing than on the best match for your swipe. The more erudite the word, the worse it is, for example try entering the word erudite. I succeeded on the second try, but the first time it typed "Russia" (and it was the first alternate suggestion the second time, too.)

"Apple is a wilful contributor to obeying the law, nothing more, nothing less."

Apple is a corporation, and like all corporations its explicit legal purpose is to separate funding from liability.

"I bet you'd sing a different tune if the ban was for TikTok."

China already has banned TikTok from China. They only allow their own version with approved thoughts and ideas. This move by China (and supported by Apple because nothing is more important to them than profit, even if it is unsustainable) is in fact just more of that same ban. As such, you would not only lose your bet, it really doesn't make any sense.

You're not obligated to operate in China, Apple spokesdroid. You chose to do so. Google chose to exit when China wanted them to help put the screws to the populace. Apple didn't. Apple is a willful contributor to public oppression in China and nothing any PR flack says will change that fact.

Most intensive tasks are I/O bound, and most of the ones that aren't are CPU-bound, so yes.

They want the photolitho machines. The location is also strategic.

I'm consistent so you don't believe me? Okay, sport.

https://www.google.com/search?...

Looks like they are showing the base clock for Windows and the boost clock for Linux. The processor model was listed on the page you linked, so you could have found this out with google.

So what you're saying is you think Java is optimized for Linux over Windows? I could believe that, but where are your benchmark tests? How did you leave those out?

-site:quora.com still works.

It's cheaper, of course. There's no other reason.

Yep. There's tons of highly polluted properties on coasts, including refineries, fuel depots, shipyards, storage yards... Even if you removed the buildings and whatnot completely the soil would still be contaminated. And then there's the nuclear plants... Over 40% of them are coastal worldwide, and that number rises to 66% if you count plants under construction.

Yes, they are deluded.

Even if their Mac shits all over them, they will praise it. Mac OS has been getting less and less reliable since about the same time they stopped calling it Mac OS X. The Mac users I know have become less and less enthralled with it as advertised functionality becomes more likely to malfunction. In particular they are distressed by recent degradations in the performance and reliability of Time Machine backups, which is arguably the thing Apple most needs to get right. (If all else fails, format the disk with your backups on it? THANKS APPLE.)

Skill issue.

I've been a Windows to Linux waffler since I put Slackware 2.0 on a 386DX25 with 8MB RAM and 120MB ATA hdd, using Kernel 1.1.47 (thus dating the start of my Linux saga) with A, N, D, and enough of the X set to run Netscape 2.0. And on that system I played (besides the epic classics like Nethack) Doom and Abuse. I ran Windows 7 for some time because it was a great place to run most games, even most of the vintage ones, and a tolerable place to run other things. I ran Linux occasionally in VMware Player or from USB stick for tasks that Windows couldn't or wouldn't do gracefully.

Now I run Devuan 5, and I am having a fairly excellent experience gaming with a combination of Lutris, PlayOnLinux, Steam, and Proton-GE. I only have a Pinnacle Ridge (1600AF) and a 4060 16GB, but I only game at 1080p. I got the version with more VRAM for LLM stuff, and so if/when I do get a 4k monitor, the card isn't worthless. I am frequently surprised by how many games I actually can run with this combination. With the exception of games with Windows kernel DRM, by far the vast majority of them can be made to work well.

If I were only gaming, I'd probably be on Windows 10. But Linux now is a very viable place to do a lot of gaming, and thanks to work put in to support the Steam Deck, a lot of games will now run very well indeed. Publishers of older games are also putting in a fair bit of work to make games function on Linux today. The new Fallout 4 patch coming out (I know that game is old AF, but it has an extremely active community) is Steam Deck Verified, but the game has run at least as well on Linux as on Windows for years now.

I do sometimes indeed still use normal Wine, but more commonly I use Proton-GE. Try it out, it's impressive.

You not picking up what I'm putting down doesn't mean I'm not putting it down for you.

This can only go well (pfffft!)