Kagi is the best few bucks I spend each month.

I am sure of that too. Best I can do is try to avoid linking it to my name.

I am not, but no one seems to give a shit.

My solution so far is a bike rack that blocks my plate from view. Easy enough to feign ignorance and “correct it” in the moment. Flocks database no doubt has an entry for [color][make][model], but at least it’s not associated with me directly through motor vehicle bureau records.

I thought that O- has undesirable plasma.

Oh well, for me at least, I feel good about the donation for donation’s sake.

Donating has always been on my to-do list, but I just never made the time. I think I did it once 25 years ago in high school.

I finally made the time about a month ago, and they made it so easy I told them to keep a standing appointment every two months (the maximum.) Found out I’m O-, so I feel like I’m doing some real good.

In my experience, while Tesla is a prime offender, it isn’t only Teslas headlight that are too bright. Honda Prologues are another specific model that blinds me all the time.

While we’re at it, I’m convinced auto-headlights and the general dumbing down of drivers mean a lot of people are simply driving around with their brights on all the time. Don’t know how to fix that one though.

Not even a little justified. What are you on about?

Phone is on her lap specifically because she’s not using it.

I think you may be underestimating the size of cities. Even San Francisco, famously small for a major city, is 15 times (at approx. 30k acres) the size of the physically largest data center in the US (Switch Reno Tahoe) at 2,000 acres. That’s still just 1/7th the size of Manhattan.

I won’t argue that 2,000 acres isn’t huge for a data center, but just trying to put numbers to the argument.

It’s like when Twitter went downhill, everyone moved to [next corporate owned thing, yet to be enshittified. Anything but the fediverse.]

All it takes…

That is perhaps the silliest thing I can think of regarding these chips. Can you name even a single phone whose RAM is not soldered? Heck, most laptops these days don’t have upgradable RAM.

Not allowing a 1TB option certainly is a choice, and one that can be criticized. But I don’t think it’s fair to say they could have “easily” made the RAM upgrade (certainly not user upgradable) at that price point. It uses the A series because they make billions of them, and ram has not been upgradable in them.

Fair enough, enthusiast laptops do. I can’t think of a sub $1,000 mainstream consumer laptop that is.

This model is absolutely short-circuiting the brains of the Apple haters. It upends everything they’ve been complaining about for a decade; all the same arguments that had merit 10 years ago but were mostly resolved 5 years ago (meanwhile, little said about the things Apple currently is terrible about.)

This laptop is:

• inexpensive, but not ‘cheap’
• repairable
• runs a full os; no os compromises

It is not:

• upgradable, but what laptop is these days?

Seriously, it address three of the biggest complaints against Apple historically, and we’re supposed to be mad the phone doesn’t runs a desktop OS? Who was under the impression the phone didn’t run a full OS because of technical limitations?

The Apple that Apple haters think exists (not wholly without reason) would’ve launched a $599 laptop that ran iPadOS, but they didn’t and yet there’s still complaints.

I take issue Hsus statement, but not the article.

This model has absolutely short-circuited the brains of the ardent Apple haters, perhaps including yourself, and I’m here for it.

If you’re buying based on specs, this isn’t for you.

That’s Canadian. Exchange rate makes it cheaper than 599 USD.

RAM is RAM. If you take issue with it being unified say so, but it’s still RAM.

He sounds like he’s grasping.

The neo is going to eat his lunch, and he knows it.

or what amounts to its RAM

You can criticize the amount of RAM, but it’s still RAM. Clown.

What are you taking about?