The size of the app doesn’t matter, it’s what the app does.

Say you managed to uninstall your only launcher. Getting a new one on there would be a pain, but is doable. But uninstalling the fucking massive DJI app? Nah that’s nothing.

Most cars, especially older ones, only have one cigarette lighter. How many cigarettes could you possibly need to light?

Mad? No. Unhappy? Yes. If I don’t want the food I’m not going to eat the food. I don’t want people to waste their money on something I don’t want.

Even if it’s not my money I don’t like unnecessary spending.

IMO that is one of the biggest issues with lemmy. If you make one post then potentially 1/3 of people see it. If you cross post it to all communities then lemmy shitty algorithm likes to put all 3 posts right next to each other and that gets annoying fast. Then if someone makes a comment on community As post, but you only picked Bs post then now you miss out.

Gift cards are intentionally earmarked for a specific purpose.

For a specific purpose at a specific vendor. And that’s why I hate gift cards. What if I want to go out to eat at a nice restaurant, but not the one they gave me the gift card for? Now you can’t go to the place you wanted to go to.

Or what if I want to buy something online, and it’s 50% off at vendor A but full price at vendor B and the gift card is for vendor B? Now your stick between paying for the item like normal, or wasting money getting it from the place that takes your gift card.

The 6000 series from AMD were so great because they picked the correct process node. Nvidia went with the far inferior Samsung 8nm node over TSMCs 7. Yet Nvidia still kept up with AMD in most areas (ignoring ray tracing).

Even the disastrous GTX 480 outsold ATI/AMD’s cards in most markets.

The “disastrous” Fermi cards were also compute monsters. Even after the 600 series came out people were buying the 500 series over them because they performed so much better for the money. Instead of picking up a Kepler Quadra card in order to get double precision you could get a regular ass GTX 580 and do the same thing.

Jan 6 was not a good one. And I fear there’s another coming with this next election.

I don’t like those either. I like the tones the airpods use. A single beep has no intrinsic meaning. But the tone it uses for low battery is as intuitive as it can get. Also if you don’t speak English the voice is just as useless as the tone. Especially if it’s something like this.

That said my friend has a headset that announces “mic on” and “mic off” and we get far too much enjoyment out of mocking it saying my cock.

The type of app to send you ads through your notifications are the type that don’t implement this, bundle them with “important” things, or just straight up lie.

You’re going to get fired. That’s a personal risk.

Doing nothing costs a whole lot more than doing something, and then potentially risking getting sued.

Also no random manager is going to take that personal risk. They get paid like 40k a year.

I’m not familiar with European pricing. But in general avoid refurbished thinkpads of that age. You’re paying twice the price for a laptop that someone wiped physically and software wise. If you’re capable of reinstalling windows and handling a paper towel then just buy a regular “used” machine from eBay or your l local facebook marketplace equivalent. There’s not really much that goes wrong with these machines, and that’s why people buy them.

That said T580 all day long. The L series are the cheaper built machines, and the 90 series in general are basically just 80 series but worse.

Uefis have been around since ~2010 so at this point all distros understand how to use them, and at this point default to working perfectly with them.

Secure boot is the only real potential road block. You can just turn it off if you don’t care about it.

This is the same as complaining that my job puts a filter on my work computer that lets them know if I’m googling porn at work.

That is an extreme leap what the fuck.

Network filters that block certain domains.

Vs

Key logger that tracks everything you type into the computer, even things you’ve deleted.

To license the arcitecture it costs a whole lot less, but when it comes to getting an actual usable computer they cost the same or more as an ARM machine, and perform worse.

For micro controllers (currently) it’s great.

“it keeps getting faster and faster” isn’t really saying much when it’s 1/10th the performance of a raspberry pi.

It’s amazing what a modern process node and not cranking clock speeds to high hell will do.

After switching to Mac OS I have 0 interest in using Linux on my actual conputer. I still have windows machine for work, and my servers are all Linux. But any machine I want to use is gonna run Mac.

Windows 10 is over 10 years old at this point. Microsoft learned from XP It can’t live forever.

Businesses typically lease their machines for 2-3 years so they all support 11. And do you really think the government cares about regular citizens? lol.

Is that just to work out your core muscles? Because these easier ways to work them out.