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biggerbogboy

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  • Hydrogen Direct Reduction ❌ EVs Powered by Fossil Fuels ✅

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  • It’s as though your implying that billionaires aren’t people, I like it!

  • Samsung is giving all of Android a bad rep with its terrible keyboard

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  • Hate the inconsistent autocorrect but aside from that, I use it on every phone I have and it’s really damn good

  • Share this with 5 people or it gets ya

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  • Your Phone is an Entire Computer

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  • They could have easily made the RAM and Storage user serviceable/upgradeable

    Nope, they couldn’t have, since the A18 pro chipset doesn’t support modular memory at all, of expanding it past 8gb. It’s a phone chip after all. There’s also the fact that Apple has equipped all their devices with unified memory, which, if they even managed to make it upgradable, all chips would need to support massive memory bus widths to have the same or similar bandwidth (requiring more modules), would need proprietary modules or at least rare modules like SOCAMM, and would reduce the space inside the chassis for anything else, like battery, modular ports, etc.

    Sure, I hate Apple’s antics in terms of lack of right to repair, but frankly they produce arm based computers, where have you ever seen an arm based laptop or mini pc with modular RAM? I’m sure some exist but they’re likely too obscure for me to have heard of (although I have heard of System76’s Thelio Astra, although again they are a bit obscure outside Linux circles.)

    Edit: forgot to add, but yeah soldered storage is really inexcusable.

  • Your Phone is an Entire Computer

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  • First of all, I couldn’t find where you specified “outside work”, so maybe you imagined it and accidentally believed you did.

    Second of all, phones can be efficient at some tasks, but PCs can be for others. Phones aren’t always the most efficient thing ever at every task. Programming for example is much more streamlined on desktop, since you can simply install an IDE, program what you need and test it pretty easily unless you’re really shit at coding. On mobile, it’s different, on iOS you’d be hard pressed to find an IDE at all that isn’t some completely unheard of one with at most 3 stars if people actually used it, or 5 stars from the creator of it. On android it’s a little better, although I genuinely haven’t heard of official or even recommended options for IDEs either.

    Thirdly, people aren’t downvoting out of elitism, it’s out of logic, PCs are amazing at most things, maybe apart from endless short form video scrolling. Phones are just portable PCs built to be more energy efficient, do mostly the same tasks, but also lack most of the input methods apart from a digitiser, and a miniaturised display. None are bad, and frankly I’m typing this on an iPad right now, but that’s because I’m away from my desk and just wanna do some simple browsing. On my laptops I can genuinely do what I’d like that isn’t just browsing, I can have a game open that’s not compatible with iPadOS or android, and even within browsing, I can have 30 or more YouTube or other tabs open without the browser grinding to a halt, which I can’t say the same for safari on the iPad or chromium on my android phones.

    People aren’t “just old and set in their ways” because they like the tactility, openness and forms of ease of use PCs bring. Sure, your workflow may have never touched PCs at all currently, but other people have different workflows. Other people aren’t stupid for not being you.

  • Streaming didnt exist in 1970

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  • This gif is perfect, I was listening to a song, then it finished and went to the next one, and in both his punches were completely synced to the beat both times

  • Iran war pushes oil price above $90, threatening rise in global inflation

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  • Naturally

  • Iran war pushes oil price above $90, threatening rise in global inflation

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  • Hybrid and electric drivers during the petrol price rise:

  • I know I could use a fresh start

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  • What kind of sacrifice we talking? Like railgun them into space? Maybe throw them off Olympus mons?

  • These RAM prices are out of hand

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  • Yo alerted the hoard! RUNNN!

  • It's all SO simple!

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  • Same lol, but I’m still sorta fat because the food I and family members make is actually SCRUMPTIOUS that I can’t avoid it, but when I want to or feel like it, I can just go like a whole day without eating. The downside is that I constantly forget to drink water because I have zero clue when I’m absolutely parched

  • Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599

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  • Honestly same, I've got a 16gb Macbook Air m2 I bought new a few months ago, and frankly, even if m4 is the first tier to fully kick out 8gb, I'm glad that the Neo means this focus on lower resource use will continue.

    What I do suspect though is once all the Neo stock is depleted, they'll either discontinue the whole line or make a new one with some stockpiled a19 chips, but I'm not sure which one... I guess we'll have to wait and see!

  • Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599

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  • you're right, and I'd personally pick from a one, but realisticaly, if someone only just needs a laptop and doesn't really know what to get, where to get it, why to get that specific one, etc, then I don't think they'd even know second hand sellers can be reputable in the first place.

    My mother for instance, she bought an Acer Aspire Go for around $550 AUD from one of our large consumer electronics stores (not sure but I think it was Officeworks),so she can do all her important stuff on, think appointments, setting up debit cards, tracking orders, etc. She didn't want anything used or refurbished, since her view of such is that, if she bought one used or refurbished, it'll be barely held together, half broken, probably someone bit part of the corner off, and so on.

    if I were her, I would've just gotten a cheap refurb Thinkpad, but seeming that its at least somewhat common for non-tech literate people to think it's scary to get into the second hand market, most would simply rather choose large consumer electronics store chains. Maybe this issue is just because of the tangibility, where you can walk into a store and physically hold the laptops and assess them, rather than the online only nature of the second hand market, unless there is a rare physical store for refurb and used tech.

  • Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599

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  • the reason I said the price was low is simply because IT IS for what you're getting, especially where I live. This Macbook Neo starts at $900 AUD, and after checking local retailers like Officeworks, JB HI-FI and Centrecom, and from what I've found, the laptops at that same or similar price tag are usually worse performing, plastic built laptops with worse displays. Sure, some come with 16gb of shared SODIMM memory, but a majority come with 8gb. Around a third of them are Chromebooks, the rest are windows laptops. Most come with core i3 or i5 or Ryzen 3, 5 or 7.

    For the Macbook Neo, which you can preorder from these retailers for around that 900 bucks, you get a rigid aluminium build, a solid high PPI screen, 8gb of unified LPDDR5X memory, a better SoC than the competition, guaranteed OS support for around 7 years, strict OS memory compression and management, and some pleasant colours compared to the drab grey and uncreative black colours.

    RAM is never the only factor when choosing to buy a laptop, its all the other factors as well, those of which people miss and happen to get a laptop where the hinge breaks a year after, or the shared memory puts limits on their workflow and forces the CPU to work more copying data between two pools, or the display has shitty viewing angles that make it hard to look at, or an short accidental drop renders the machine inoperable, or even overuse of the ports cause them to fail, but they're soldered on and render that function of the device useless.

    There are so many reasons to bag Apple, but you gotta hand it to them, they know how to standardise and have demonstrated that their devices are designed to weather being used well. And sure, you can definitely buy something a lot cheaper with a hell of a lot more ports, but its likely these ports in the Neo will be modular, since all ports are modular in the Airs, Pros, Mac Minis and Mac Studios.

  • Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599

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  • that's pretty awesome that your store repurposed old tech with a solid reason to do so, and frankly people constantly bag old tech for being old, even though most of the time it can still fulfill most of what they need, and I'm saying that as I type this on the aforementioned 10 year old laptop, a laptop of which I bought off a friend for $10 AUD because he got a new one because it felt shit using this one, mainly since it was on an old windows 10 install with a ton of bloat.

    What my point was in the previous comment was not that you should avoid modularity, other brands or used tech, rather I was stating that people in these threads are constantly overblowing the point of 8gb of unified memory being the only tier, since most of us game, design, self host or do other things which can be quite demanding, but web browsing, document editing and the many other use cases for this Macbook Neo would barely phase it, just like how the machine I'm typing this on right now is cool to the touch and hasn't stuttered at all since boot around 2 hours ago.

    and shit, If I needed a laptop right now and had to buy new, if there was an option a little more expensive for something with slightly worse build quality and performance, so I can have modularity, I'd snap that up, but these days its damn difficult to beat apple in the new tech market. The Mac Mini was probably the first stupidly affordable Apple machine, then the MacBook Air (which now sorta lost its edge since apple just price gated it by making 512gb storage minimum,) and now this Macbook Neo, all happening through a RAM shortage where consumers are benefiting from Apple's excessively long hardware contracts, mainly for the LPDDR5X chips.

  • Intel's make-or-break 18A process node debuts for data center with 288-core Xeon 6+ CPU — multi-chip monster sports 12 channels of DDR5-8000, Foveros Direct 3D packaging tech

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  • Finally, something that can open the windows 11 start menu without stuttering, we sure are in the future huh

  • Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599

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  • I haven’t read up a huge lot on the benchmarks of it, but from what I’ve heard I think that’s right.

  • Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599

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  • On the ram front, I’ve heard it’s just a limitation of the a18 pro chipset, not Apple being stingy, as that chipset can only support up to 8gb of ram total.

    Also, apparently the a18 pro is similar to the m1 in terms of performance, which the base m1 beat out the core i9 9880H, which was the processor of the most powerful MacBook Pro pre-Apple silicon, so the a18 pro would likely be able to do a lot more than light browsing and document editing, although the limiting factor is unfortunately the 8gb of ram that just can’t be expanded.

  • Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599

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  • For the target audiences, people just buying a low cost laptop for browsing as well as students, it’s unlikely the common person wouldn’t go directly to Apple to get the newest product. There will definitely be some who opt to get older second hand tech instead, but the vast majority would rather get something they have assurance is brand new and in fully working condition.

    Personally, if I needed a laptop, I’d weigh my options both in first party offerings as well as the second hand market, and I’d probably come to the conclusion to just buy two broken laptops and combine them, but it’s rare to find someone who’s willing to splice two computers together for university or high school they’re going to in a month or so, and even if it’s more common, it’s still rare to find someone willing to dive head first into the second hand market when they don’t know how to check for fake listings, horrible deals and genuine bargains, which is why most opt for buying directly from manufacturers or from consumer electronics stores.

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    people who use AI a lot would probably be the most likely to get their exact wish from a genie.

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    Jarvis, what's my name?

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    SOLVED

    Is anyone able to identify this DE (desktop environment) displayed on the tablet?

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    Ruleic jam

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    G rule

  • memes @lemmy.world
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    Yuh uh, very realistic situations

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    Rulerag

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    Rule

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    Rule