The troll mod may be unfair. he may actually believe that.
The troll mod has to do a lot of work here, in addition to people just using it to mod down whatever they disagree with it also has to handle "this is just fucking stupid"
Like other seemingly simple solutions, this one is wrong.
Why?
The major distros have become unbelievably bloated
Irrelevant
The kitchen-sink approach is just wrong and increases attack surface
Irrelevant
Although lightweight versions are possible, the sheer sprawl of inodes has become ridiculous
Irrelevant
No OS should need a half-million files installed from core executables and libs and sheer goo.
Stupid
Linux distros could go on a diet
So next time search for a lightweight distribution and run that? This is a you problem, it doesn't just sound like one.
Desert does not mean arid.
No one said that but you. You seem confused. Try taking your meds.
Oh look, you're on my dick again.
Isn't your ass tired yet?
It's bananas to buy a PC with 4GB RAM today. That's barely enough for a phone. If you want it to perform with modern apps, in fact, it's not enough.
But I don't like "unified memory" when it comes to actual real-world performance.
It actually has both ups and downs in the age of LLMs. But more to the point, it mostly doesn't matter any more. If you are doing real grunt work or real gaming then yeah, that makes sense. But if you are doing typical processing then it doesn't matter at all. I have a Zen+ laptop and a Zen3 MiniPC and they both have slow AF graphics for lack of cores, but they are both plenty punchy in the CPU department and they can both do 4k video decoding. So for the average person, it's irrelevant, and even for many people who do not have typical use cases. It's like winmodems, they were terrible in their day but would be fine now if we still used modems
You don't understand caching. We can add that to a long list.
Cheap Chromebooks are crap. I'm not about to give Apple any money but you're leaving out the important reason why someone might choose to do so. Their hardware is far better and their software is somewhat better. If Google didn't over-limit Chromebooks then the software might be a wash, but they do so.
It's a gateway drug to Apple's farm, where you are the livestock.
Let me tell you about a little ad company called Google.
I've browsed it a bit, but there's nothing worthwhile on it. [...] So why would I ever want to visit an intellectual desert like bluesky, again?
If it's an intellectual desert because you're not there, I hope it never ever rains.
8 GB of "unified memory", sharing that pool with cpu, gpu and whatever they're calling "neural net" these days. Almost certainly soldered in, not expandable.
I have an older laptop (Zen 3) with 2C2T and 8GB of unified memory and it is fine for all common tasks.
All this for about $150-$200 more than a comparably outfitted Windows laptop.
The only thing wrong with my low end laptop is the build quality. In fact the keyboard died in like month 3 and then it took me 2 months to get the machine back with it replaced.
people tend to buy Macs for creation, and this one seems to be outfitted primarily for consumption, which is not Apple's audience.
People tend to buy Macs for simplicity and ease of use. The idea that most people them buy them for content creation is simply nonsense. No doubt that segment is a larger percentage of the user base, but still minuscule.
This makes advertising in those areas more expensive, meaning fewer ads for users in those countries.
It might mean a smaller pool of differing ads, but it does not mean fewer ads for those users. In fact, Facebook might even increase the number of ads shown, because they will be more motivated to do so in order to sell more ad placement.
And the ads they do see will be higher value, from companies that know they can make a return
That is not how advertising works. It's from companies whose advertising managers think they can make a return.
and not low-value/low-return blanket spam
That is not how facebook works. All content on facebook is tagged automatically. When you interact with it those tags are copied into your "interests", whether that interaction was positive or negative. Therefore no advertising on facebook is really targeted, and all of it is just blanket spam.
So up until the point where Meta decides it's no longer worthwhile to provide the service, I call this a win.
And then it's a victory.
An act of terrorism can also be an act of war. You don't know what words mean but want to argue about it. That's sad.
Oh look you're pretending there weren't pipe bombs
The US is the safest place on the planet.
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"I don't believe in sweeping social change being manifested by one person, unless he has an atomic weapon." -- Howard Chaykin
