alpaca128

I am talking from experience with an M1 & 8GB RAM. I had to restart either the browser or the YouTube browser processes at least once every couple days to stop the whole system from lagging.

Imho 8GB RAM for productivity can quickly be restrictive. I used an M1 with 8GB and my current Macbook is M2 with 16GB, and to me the difference feels bigger than 2x. It seems not everyone here feels that way, but I'd say there's a reason Apple bumped the base models to 16 and makes that exclusive to non-Neo models.

A couple YouTube tabs are enough if you leave them running for long enough. Just one YT browser process will easily take up 1-4GB sooner or later.

I've seen enough reviews of recent Lego sets to doubt this. Sets with a brick or two where the color is off, sets where the final model falls apart if you look at it wrong, and when there's fan designed alternatives which are more solid and better looking it's clear it wasn't a physical limitation.

Not to mention sets that indeed just feel like a ripoff, like the pyramid of giza which costs $130 and is actually just half of a pyramid, but the backside of the model has slots that let you connect it with another half if you buy two of them. And they even admit in the marketing it's an incomplete product with "Complete the pyramid - This model comes with clear instructions and can be connected to a second model (sold separately) to create a full pyramid", of course only visible after scrolling or looking at more product pictures.

That's never happened to me once, what app does this?

> but are twitter handles even precious?

Precious enough to be sold for $100k as can be read above.

You can't have it both ways, if a handle is worthless then why take it away from someone?

> If a supplier wants to retain such control and restrict functionality, deeming them a supply-chain risk seems appropriate

Anthropic provides their product under specific terms, if the government doesn't accept those terms then there's no deal, simple as that. That's how basic contracts work, not sure why you think that has anything to do with a supply chain risk.

What if Copilot was already trained with Minecraft code in the dataset? Should be possible to test by telling the model to continue a snippet from the leaked code, the same way a news website proved their articles were used for training.

There's a difference between Apple's mobile devices which are an actual walled garden, and Mac OS which (begrudgingly) still lets you install and run pretty much anything. It has a nice terminal, no driver issues, and is not nearly as distracting and annoying as modern Windows (still has more than enough bugs and quirks though). And once update support runs out I can install Linux on it.

iPads are a completely different world and really feel not just restrictive but the whole ecosystem constantly tries to push you towards subscriptions for everything, including the OS which conveniently offers the only sane backup solution that can cover all apps. It incentivises content consumption and giving up control over one's data. Not my cup of tea.

How would that tell you if, say, the lasem-0.6.0nb1 package contains malware?

> Malware already waits dormant for years in many different attack vectors

And some malware doesn't wait. Sure, some supply chain attacks like the one in Notepad++ are much more sophisticated, but some untargeted ones (like the recent Cline CLI one) rely on package managers doing thousands of downloads before it's noticed and stopped.

How can you know that a dependency you trust won't be hacked? At best it slightly reduces the risk, but it's not even close to the effectiveness of version cooldowns that just block 100% of fresh updates.

If Gnome made their screenshot feature an app then it would be possible to just use it on any other desktop too, as is usually a strength of Linux. And it would then also be possible to add it to Gnome's dock, which wasn't doable last time I checked.

It's rare to see a perfectly stable desktop UI in general. Even on my Mac and iPhone minor bugs are almost a daily occurrence. But KDE especially is a combination of huge scope and limited resources, whenever I used it there was always something obviously unpolished.

Update: it's starting to look like CPU C-states were the problem.

Did you actually try Arch? I ran it for three years on a laptop and it was more reliable with fewer issues than most stable distros I used.

I hope they added (or will add) that feature to other Macs too, on mine I had to try out different ports and check the settings to find the one which can go beyond 60Hz.

I am "only" ranging around 800-2000 tabs and 95% of them are practically bookmarks that aren't hidden in some menu but visible in the same visual context as everything else, which feels more natural to me. They're not loaded in RAM anyway.

The brain is amazing at remembering the rough location where I have tabs of a specific site/topic, so I just switch to the right window and scroll for a few seconds. Only works with a vertical tab bar though. It's not the most optimal solution but the best that actually exists and works smoothly.

As someone who used an M1 with 8GB and has hundreds of browser tabs I can assure you it is not enough and you'll have to restart the browser at least a few times per week to not make the whole system lag.

16GB is fine though, and makes a much larger difference in responsiveness than it looks on paper.

I have an M1 with 8GB and M2 with 16GB, and they are not comparable. I once ran the M2 smoothly for over 250 days without reboot with a bunch of applications open the whole time (at some point it just force-rebooted, fair enough). On the other hand I regretted the 8GB on my M1 Mini every time I used it.

8GB is perfectly fine for light use, but I'd argue if that's enough then you don't need the power of an M1+ processor either. So 8GB in the Neo and 16GB by default in everything else sounds more sensible than what M1 started with.

In my case it doesn't seem to be related to system load. I have an issue where (mainly) using FF can trigger random system freezes on Linux, often with the browser going down first. But running CPU/memory stress tests, compiling things etc don't cause any errors and the cooler is downright bored.

I avoid that tradeoff by using Linux. It updates when I tell it to and inbetween it's nice and quiet. At time when I have to use Windows for a bit it is genuinely a shocking contrast with how little respect both the OS and applications have for the user's attention. Everything adds itself to autostart without asking, everything spams update popups.

If you can afford to defend yourself in court

Good to know it has some logic to it, thanks for the clarification

When did rock music, video games or porn tell their audience to kill themselves in a personalized way to a point people actually did it, and in a way that directly links to those media?

Knives don't talk to you and don't reinforce ideas you throw at them. Not everyone can legally buy a gun. Manufacturers don't get sued because their product's users had full control over what they were doing.

AI chatbots entertain more or less any idea. Want them to be your therapist, romantic partner or some kind of authority figure? They'll certainly pretend to be one without question, and that is dangerous. Especially as people who'd ask for such things are already in a vulnerable state.

As an iPad owner I would probably use it for taking handwritten notes if the handwriting recognition was reliable enough for text search. But it's not, and the search feature in Apple Notes is the absolute minimum to be called "search". It can only search from the beginning of words, so typing "oo" will never find "foo". Better apps exist but they all come with a subscription of some kind.

I am clearly not the target audience for the iPad. Being restricted to apps and what they allow you to do while asking for money at every corner is not my cup of tea.

Or make them more discoverable. I spent so much time looking for a UI scaling setting, and in the end it turned out its name does not contain any obvious word like scale or size, instead it is called devPixelsPerPx. It isn't even consistent about Pixels vs Px.

I also reduced the use of those phrases, but more because they don't do much other than making the text longer. Except for things like "in my experience" or "as I understand" to signal that they're not meant as factual statements.

That reminds me of the recent term "Epstein class". It seems more and more fitting.