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Comment Re:Really? (Score 5, Informative) 100

133K is upper middle class??

Well, it is definitely a politically-loaded question... but it doesn't seem totally unreasonable, at least based on population percentages. They said "middle class" not "rich"; this is for a family of three, which nowadays means two incomes in the majority of cases; and $133K was chosen as the very bottom of the "upper middle class" window.

Pew is considered rather less politically biased than the Wall Street Journal; but in 2022 they gave the following broad-brush definitions for a family of three:

Lower-income (28% of US population): Under $56,600 per year
Middle-income (52% of US population): Between $56,600 and $169,800 per year
Upper-income (19% of US population): Above $169,800 per year

There are certainly a lot of political side questions one could ask, like - should we really consider it to be "middle-class" if a person can't afford to buy a house?

Comment Re:Are you sure that is true? (Score 1) 47

They basically had the 'Classic' environment running under a Unix environment a decade before OSX with A/UX.

MAE then eventually got ported to Solaris. Speculation at the time was that Sun (RIP) would buy Apple and merge the best bits of macOS with OpenStep, Jobs' cross-OS collaboration with them.

Comment Re:4GB has been insufficient for many years now (Score 1) 106

Web browsers are absolute hogs, and, in part, that's because web sites are absolute hogs.

Yeah, I was gonna say... it's probably not Gnome itself that's the memory hog, it's almost certainly the demands from the web browser and / or email client. *

We have a computing lab which runs Linux + Gnome. Students are in the GUI almost all the time, but they're mostly running various engineering applications - they're not checking their personal email, and typically they're not randomly browsing the web. If there's only one or two students on there (remote access does get used a lot), htop typically shows < 2GB of memory usage - and almost no load.

* Not that I particularly want to defend Gnome; I think, design-wise, it's become a rather user-hostile window manager.

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