Part of that is going to depend on what exactly you're doing with the computer, and how fast the other components are.
If you're just browsing the internet and want to be able to have more than 5 tabs open before your computer starts stuttering, the extra ram will be far more important than the speed.
If you're playing games, and your CPU and GPU are really good compared to your ram already, the bottleneck from the ram speed dropping may slow things down rather than speed them up.
This is one of those situations where nobody wins. They tried to do something nice, you didn't like it, and both people ended up unhappy. Neither was being unreasonable.
Buying someone a gift of a new thing isn't unreasonable. Even if you tend to like older/used things it's still not an unreasonable concept to buy someone an upgrade.
Not liking a gift because the old one is fine is also not unreasonable. Especially if you have established this as a preference before.
The best option here is for the partner to realize that the goal of the gift is to make the other person happy, and if that didn't work, figure out the path forward that does make them happy. (in this case returning the gift, and finding something else)
IMO, Sex with someone 15 or under, as an adult should not be allowed.
What she's arguing, and she's correct about, is that there are separate words for people are attracted to prepubescent, early pubescent, and late pubescent children.
For some reason, the one for the youngest group (Pedophiles) is being applied to all of them in general conversations.
The laws are even frequently different for these different groups, so it makes no sense to use one blanket term:
The current Code of Alabama codifies Rape in the First Degree as:[9]
"(a) A person commits the crime of rape in the first degree if:
(1) He or she engages in sexual intercourse with a member of the opposite sex by forcible compulsion; or
(2) He or she engages in sexual intercourse with a member of the opposite sex who is incapable of consent by reason of being physically helpless or mentally incapacitated; or
(3) He or she, being 16 years or older, engages in sexual intercourse with a member of the opposite sex who is less than 12 years old.
(b) Rape in the first degree is a Class A felony."
The current Code of Alabama codifies Rape in the Second Degree as:[10]
"(a) A person commits the crime of rape in the second degree if:
(1) Being 16 years or older, he or she engages in sexual intercourse with a member of the opposite sex less than 16 and more than 12 years old, provided, however, the actor is at least two years older than the member of the opposite sex.
(2) He or she engages in sexual intercourse with a member of the opposite sex who is incapable of consent by reason of being mentally defective.
(b) Rape in the second degree is a Class B felony."
It's a fucking struggle right now, and It's not supposed to be like this.
You shouldn't have to work a full time job, and take care of the house, and take care of the kids. Neither should the wife/partner.
The fact that it requires two working parents at this point to afford life is the problem. There's enough to go around even if just one parent was participating in the economy, if it was distributed more fairly.
The pendulum has swung too far on capitalism, and it's sucking the vast majority of people dry just to feed itself. There's a reason why birthrates have jumped off a cliff.
Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work that way in reality. While the criminal laws are all public, there's other rules and regulations that may not be.
At least where I'm from as an example, the building code is a paid product you have to purchase from the government. Yet if you build a home and don't follow it, they will not allow you to live in it.
That one really bugs me. Anything the government produces in terms of rules or regulations should be available to the public for free.
When Gord Downie the lead singer of the Tragically Hip got terminal cancer, he went on tour. His final stop was Ontario, and they streamed it live on CBC (our national news network) to approximately 12 million viewers (Canada had a population of about 38 million)
He died less than a month later. Our prime minister released a tribute statement, and held a press conference over it. Our House of Commons observed a moment of silence. The Toronto Maple Leafs (NHL Hockey Team) brought down one of the retired numbers from the rafters during their next game, because Gord had mentioned him in 50-mission cap. Almost every radio station that plays music switched to Hip songs for the day. The Canadian press gave him newsmaker of the year for 2016, then again for 2017 because of how significant the reaction to his death was.
Dude was a legend both musically, and also in terms of the causes he championed. Especially the Indigenous reconciliation stuff.
The easy answer is that Home Assistant has Voice Assistants now, and you can use Ollama, Whisper, and Piper to do that all locally.
The problem is that it really only talks to Home Assistant, there's no ability to have it search the web, or make a phone call, or really anything else outside of Home Assistant without significant addon stuffs.
It also requires a reasonably significant amount of RAM on your computer to run the VM for Home Assistant while supporting Whisper and Piper and Ollama.
I don't feel like I'm looking for something specific, as much as waiting for something to happen.
I have a lot of stuff I check multiple times per day, my google news feed, lemmy, youtube, and a few specific reddits. I also spend a lot of time on Discord in like a dozen different servers.
The "something has happened" part makes me happy briefly, but I've realized it doesn't really do anything for me in terms of advancing my life, so I pretty much treat it like video game time. Doesn't mean I've stopped doing it, but I've tried to pull back a little bit.
One of the reasons why I often feel like letting the issues accelerate into a wall right now, rather than baby step fixes to put the crash off, is the best long term plan because change will come sooner and we'll all be better for it.
Part of that is going to depend on what exactly you're doing with the computer, and how fast the other components are.
If you're just browsing the internet and want to be able to have more than 5 tabs open before your computer starts stuttering, the extra ram will be far more important than the speed.
If you're playing games, and your CPU and GPU are really good compared to your ram already, the bottleneck from the ram speed dropping may slow things down rather than speed them up.