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Dear journalists/others: for the love of all that is good, please for f's sake stop calling these people "artists". It reinforces the lie they tell themselves.

They are nothing of the sort.

They are, at most, and even this is overly generous, someone commissioning a "fake artist" (AI) to make something for them

I'm a Kagi user myself but I'm not going to extrapolate that to thinking that because I use something that it points to the downfall of another product's dominance.

Just because a few techy or aware people use Kagi (or another alternative), is still a drop in the bucket of overall search engine choice

Google search is still widely dominant, as much as we might not want it to be.

Same for me. Applies to any caffeine intake, really. I usually taper down to lower amounts slowly to avoid withdrawal symptoms then ramp back up. I can really feel the effects after I'm on no/low caffeine for a short period- however, for daily intake- I think if you fluctuate intake amounts enough between days that could help from a maintenance perspective and is realistically what I do most of the time.

This is what I use most often these days for loading any system with a Linux install (or to test drive distros it's an awesome tool).

I have found some hardware seems to have weird issues with drives of a certain size (I tried using a 256GB external SSD and have encountered a laptop that will not boot from it, and will only boot from USB storage if it's like 32GB or lower or something weird like that). But that appears to be a particular quirk of that laptop and nothing to do with Ventoy in particular.

Both cider and wine give me very fast headaches even with small amounts of consumption. Beer and other spirits do not.

Curious if quercetin(+alcohol, specifically in the forms found in those beverages) in-fact is a culprit, since cider also has quercetin in it.

While I'm a full-on ad-blocker user and will almost never disable an ad-blocker to use or support any website, I also think it's fine if a service wants to block my access for using one.

I pay for YT Premium because right now it's worth it- it and Twitch (I use Turbo) are both essentially my only video entertainment (instead of paying far more for cable or something- I don't watch regular TV shows or movies anyway).

I would rather a service cease to exist, require a subscription, than view ads. My attention is not for sale to the lowest bidder.

Yes, I understand that some of what survives on the web today is because it has been ad supported- and that it's one way we have democratized / made content available to the masses, including those that can't afford to pay- I just think we'd find another way if ads went away and it's sad that advertising ever was allowed to have the foothold it has today and become the industry it is. Its very existence is repugnant.

I subscribed to Nebula and honestly there hasn't been any content there that has ever kept me coming back. Been subscribed for a year and all the content I want is still only on YouTube.

They're going to have to screw over creators bad enough for creators to move elsewhere before there's any remotely significant change in critical mass

Why would you want RAM to swap to fast SSDs when you can avoid it with more RAM in the first place, though? Sure it's not a molasses-slow spinning HDD..... but SSDs are still far slower than RAM, and having swap hit the SSDs means unnecessary writes/wear... especially on systems where the SSDs can't even be replaced

I think whether or not people always encounter it "feeling slow" is a different concern as to whether or not 8GB of RAM should ever even be offered by Apple on a system that will for sure eventually swap to disk for users. Adding Apple's huge margins on RAM upgrades on top of this just makes it even more disgusting... they should start their models at a higher baseline- it costs them next to nothing (8GB RAM vs 16GB RAM is not a cost-to-Apple issue, it's an extremely cheap component), but then of course they can't squeeze customers for ludicrous amounts of upsell margins (their cost-to-consumer RAM upgrade margins are absolutely appalling)

Selling suboptimal hardware configurations might be a good business decision but I wish our standards weren't so low for companies, especially ones selling $1600 machines with 2013-amounts of RAM in them

Fully agree. For a long time I was heavily biased against it because of the versions of it I saw, growing up in a conservative religious family and seeing other far more conservative religious families in our church/etc do a very extreme/strict/sheltering form of it- and then becoming non-religious, kept that bias.

But over time I've come to realize that is only one very specific form of 'homeschooling' that is nothing like other forms

I've had good experience with Porkbun. I like it more than Hover, which I had previously. But both of these have been far better than most of the "big" alternatives.

NextDNS (and Quad9 and Cloudflare often as backups). I run NextDNS on my phone as well.

I would also think that random read/write performance (throughput/IOPS and maybe latency too? just a hunch...) on SSDs will be miles ahead of microSD and likely represents impacts on real-world/OS scenarios much more than sequential numbers

Firefox's refusal here makes me respect the browser even more and makes me more happy that it's my browser of choice.

User agency should be prioritized over all other concerns.

Excited to see this. Thinking about using this on mobile and all PCs I use now that there is no worry about hitting a quota.