Time for new glasses, gramps.

I finally gave in and got glasses, and now I really appreciate subpixel font rendering again... at 4k. This is a 42.5" diagonal TV at arm's length plus 4" or so, though.

It's pretty nice hardware. If it would run Linux well, and you didn't need x86 compatibility, it would be reasonable. I've used both, I far prefer Linux. KDE delivers much better on the promise of NeXTStep than does OSX.

I can do it, but it's irritating. The most they have ever had me verify I'm human was three times in one day. They used to use a lot of irritating minigame type captchas like slide the puzzle piece, but now they are using mostly just a slider — at least visibly. I have firefox set to ask before allowing a site audio, and it asked me if AliExpress could have it and I told it no. They seem to have finally given up on hassling me for notifications, so right now I am relatively pleased with them except for their garbage search.

They have also recently inserted AI descriptions, which are predictably shitty. However, they are in small text so they are easy to scroll past. Where they actually should use AI is in metadata. Even if it was wrong a lot of the time, it would still be more helpful than what they have now, which is nothing. I think every Chinese seller would simply game the metadata constantly. But if it's all AI generated from the listings, photos, uploads, etc then it might actually be useful let's say 80% of the time, where I find search to be good about 20% of the time now, and only useful maybe 40% of the time.

Don't let the people who just don't bother to register off the hook. Part of my job is asking people if they want to register. Lots of them that could don't bother. Many of those still want to complain... Yawn. Not interested. At least vote, THEN complain.

Also the USA has been the eight billion pound gorilla since the forties, we should have been leading by example and using our global influence to fix the problem, not to pave the earth.

"The Victim Generation, earned their moniker with a participation trophy. Sponsored by Boomer money, who paid for the team jerseys and hats too. They're unaccountable to reality in truly embarrassing ways"

Yes, just another thing boomers ruined

I've known two people who got CGMs when they were told they were at risk for diabetes, and used them to better learn what they were reacting to. They are pretty nerdy types who wanted data...

Speaking as someone who lost 80 lb and kept it off using Atkins for the reduction... This would be great for that, no guessing.

The underpowered MiniPC I bought for $300 before Donnie Dipshit fucked with Iran and before tech bros decided to replace everyone especially them is now worth $600

Exactly. Everything conservatives do is just trump lite. Then they want to pretend to distance themselves from him. The motherfuckers ARE him, just slightly less so.

Yes, of course it can. Every time there is a war, everything changes rapidly. It is therefore obvious to anyone with so much as half a brain that you're full of shit...ty excuses

I was in the market for a tablet a couple of months ago because I needed something for reading sheet music.

Cheapest 13" Apple Tablet: $949

The generic Android tablet I bought instead: $179.99

I'm not saying they aren't being impact by memory prices, but they're either incompetent at supply chain management or they're milking this for much higher profits. Either way, there's a reason why this Mac and iPhone user uses 4 Android tablets and zero Apple tablets.

At this point, if I weren't locked into the Apple platform by the software I use, I'd probably be looking for alternatives on the Mac side as well. The prices have simply become absurd when compared with the rest of the industry. It actually seems worse now than in the beleaguered period when everything was custom hardware assembled by hand.

Case in point, I was seriously considering upgrading my M1 Max MacBook Pro, which cost me about $6k when I bought it. The base model of MBP ostensibly starts at $2999, but to get 8 TB of storage (which I could add externally for just $900), between all the forced upgrades that I don't care about and the whopping $3,000 for the SSD upgrade, the price leaps to a jaw-dropping $7,549, or $4,550 total just to get $900 worth of extra storage. And really, less than that, because an 8 TB SSD would give you 9 TB of storage, and that's only 8.

Apple pricing is just plain nuts now. I mean, it was painfully high before, but even as a software engineer, I'm having trouble justifying the cost of staying on the Mac platform now, with a 25% increase in prices since 2020, and I think even higher increases for some configurations.

Yes, this site is buggy AF. But more importantly every interface but classic is broken by design. They all hide things from you and create this kind of confusion. The mobile interface is far and away worst.

Whose fault is that? They didn't raise themselves. Parents keep fucking up and then blaming the product of their fuckups.

Why do you keep asking the stupidest possible questions?

Cuckservatives always regurgitate only the dumbest part of quotes, which is why you think it's "my country right or wrong" and forgot the part which followed, "and if wrong, to be set right". And that was said by a conservative back when they were actually real and not just child rape enthusiasts.