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Anon thinks he "won" by getting the girl, not realising that entering a relationship isn't the finish line.

Alternate title: Apple charges fortune for underspecced machines, morons still buy them

Please tell me, as someone who has not given Apple money in over a decade, how I am paying for this.

This happened to me not long ago when I found a monero miner running on my laptop. Being a highly technical person, I feel unbounded shame.

It might feel that way, but people switch from one platform the other all the time.

It's not impossible, just inconvenient. People nowadays often seem to conflate the two.

Looks fine for your first website! I would change the colour of the text, though. Black on another dark colour is kinda harder to read. You can catch these problems by opening Firefox Dev Tools (F12), going to the Accessibility tab, and changing "Check for issues" to "Contrast". It'll list all the elements that have too low a contrast ratio.

With the number of people concerned about privacy

That number appears to be very small, all things considered. Out of everyone I know, literally one person cares about privacy. My mother. She will even go as far as to only use her first initial online instead of her name if she can get away with it. However, she uses Chrome all the time because she doesn't understand that your browser also tracks you.

I think that's what it comes down to. A mixture of lack of public interest, and lack of public awareness about tracking/privacy in general. If people can't immediately see how having their data harvested will inconvenience/hurt them, they simply don't care.

As far as I'm aware, an actual disagreement can only really occur in one place - opinions. I'll explain what I mean, and I'm happy to be corrected on this if you disagree :)

A: "I think Pizza is the best Italian food, hands down. It tastes so good!"
B: "No way, I think pasta is better because it has way more variety." This

Here, A and B disagree because they value different things about the food, and both arguments are valid. I assume this is what the comic is referring to.

Now consider this other example:

X: "The Earth is flat because I can't see any curvature and this ball doesn't roll away when I put it on the floor."
Y: "The Earth is round because we've been up high on mountains and in planes and seen the curvature. Plus, many aspects of physics simply wouldn't work if that were true, like the day/night cycle."

Here, X has come to the wrong conclusion either by misinformation or just on their own, and while they believe themselves to be correct, they are not. On the surface it may seem like a disagreement, but the two sides are not equal, as only one side actually is actually correct. As long as X keeps an open mind and is willing to correct their view, there should be no problem, and they will have learned something new.

The problem arises when people refuse to argue their point in good faith and resort to other tricks/fallacies to appear right, even when they're not. Using the example I gave, X could purposefully conflate fact and opinion by saying "let's agree to disagree", downplaying the correct argument as a mere opinion despite it being provably true.

Some might think I'm arguing semantics here, and that both situations could be classed as disagreements. Let me explain. The dictionary definition of "agree" is to have a positive opinion of something/someone. Opinions are therefore an integral part of agreement (and conversely, disagreement). knowing that, and knowing that facts are objective, the logical conclusion is that disagreement and facts are fundamentally incompatible. Following this logic, you cannot disagree with something that is objectively true.

I'll leave you with this:

X: "The sky is green."
Y: "No it's not. Look up, it's blue."
X: "Well that's just your opinion. Let's agree to disagree."

In that case...

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I'm going to go with a slightly unorthodox answer. Phones.

You don't need a new phone every year. You don't need a new phone every two years. You don't even need a phone every three years. Your old Galaxy S7 or iPhone 6 still works. Don't waste your money keeping up with the latest phone. So what if it has a slightly better camera? What are you taking pictures of? What does it really do that your old phone doesn't?
Once you properly consider everything you realise that you only really need to upgrade your phone every 4-5 years minimum. Many will last much longer.

Microsoft famously used stank ranking when Steve Ballmer was CEO.

A fun typo, but also oddly fitting. Man had pit stains for days.

"You need to actually start trying to inform yourself"
Proceeds to link other people's YouTube channels in lieu of actual research

What a striking similarity to the QAnon/antivax/flat-earth idiots 🤔

Calc.exe is a click or hotkey away.

The Start Menu is already there, no hotkey setup required. Plus, I can close it with a single key too. It's simply more convenient.

You can code in Notepad in the same way you can eat off the floor with your hands. Using better tools is a nicer experience.

As for performance, when one of the world's most popular editor runs on Electron, it's not that hard to see why performance could be an issue when working on large projects on older hardware.
I've never personally had an issue with VSCode's performance, but I'm also fortunate enough to be in a position where I can afford a relatively modern machine. Many others have to make do with what they have, which is why Zed might appeal to them.

I think they were more likely referring to how when the public eye is on something many companies will start churning out low-effort products to capitalise on the interest. The market would be flooded with cheap and inferior products in that niche, potentially threatening the smaller business that actually cared about making quality products for those hobbyists. I know this won't apply to every hobby, but there are definitely a number of them that will.

I'm a zoomer and I also have no fucking idea what this is

There isn't really a loop to be out of. As long as you've watched this masterpiece then you should get all there is to get about this.

I like how Tanya's thoughts here can be easily overlooked as typical meme hyperbole by people who don't know that that is exactly what she thinks about at all times.

I used to be in camp AVIF, but I've changed my tune to supporting JXL after running some of my own tests. The main things that caused me to change my mind were the better compression ratio, progressive loading, and lossless conversion from JPEG. Those last two in particular are very useful features which AVIF simply doesn't have an answer to.

AVIF is a video format masquerading as an image format, and while that's not a bad thing, it's definitely not as good as a purpose-built image format.