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You do realize you can buy DDR5 SODIMM from anywhere, right? Even if they didn't have it in stock for individual purchases, how did that force you to abandon the whole system? That…

Not just "could be used in one", but age verification is the raison d'être for the introduction and existence of these fields. Not sure why some people pretend otherwise when it is…

The problem isn't just getting something that works across all European countries. It's getting something that works globally. While we may make most of our payments within EU, bas…

Almost all PCs do however have USB ports, which means they can have anything you can plug into an USB port.

Sounds similar to ignoring clearly fraudulent DMCAs. Technically you are not allowed to ignore one no matter how clearly fraudulent it is, but in practice no one would follow up on…

As I understand, there is also a rule that you must be able to buy an exact amount of premium currency for a specific thing you want. So if that's also enforced, clearly the price …

The hard part about ditching Visa and Mastercard is keeping the ability to make international payments even outside of EU. If you still need Visa or Mastercard to buy anything from…

Why not both?

I thought it would be something like recompiling to utilize AVX512 capabilities or something.

Saying that something that has ~40% market share "doesn't matter" and the other thing that has ~60% is suddenly orders of magnitude more relevant sounds ridiculous.

Piracy isn't even the main use case of yt-dlp. It's archival of videos that you want to keep a copy of in case something happens to the video. There is literally no way to get that…

Even entertaining the idea is extremely disturbing and dystopian. Having control over what we watch and what we listen to should be basic human rights. And those are inalienable, m…

That's just personal preference. It works the other way around too.

The goal of Asahi Linux is to create a Linux distribution that is compatible with Apple devices. Using Rust is not a goal of the project, it's just something they decided to use du…

This. It's gotten to the point where I don't check email at all because of the constant spam of mails that are not actionable and/or urgent. There are so many different types of au…

There are Apple phones and there are Android phones, that's pretty much it. It's a duopoly. It is practically impossible for a third player to enter the market. This circular logic…

What are you even talking about? The vast majority of hardware that can run Windows has no technical measures in place to prevent some other operating system from being installed. …

Ah, can trust HN to always derail the topic whenever EU is mentioned. This has literally nothing to do with the subject matter of the article.

Odd that you would say "only Suspend to RAM", because that is far more difficult to reliably implement in terms of hardware compatibility than Suspend to Disk.

Because the phone market is a duopoly that was impenetrable for even Microsoft. This "why don't you just make your own Apple?" argument is ridiculous, it will not happen no matter …

You can't play 4K Netflix on Linux, period. Because of DRM. Before you say "this is just a Netflix issue" - you can't play 4K Prime Video on Linux either. Nor 4K Disney+. And many …

Why is this such a huge issue if it merely shows it's busy, but the performance of it indicates that it actually isn't? Switching to Linux can be a good choice for a lot of people,…

The lack of awareness of this post is incredible. Apple is leveraging intentional incompatibility to make people use social pressure on each other to switch to Apple. That is not a…

If the consumer intentionally uses the affiliate links to support the creator, then they are deceived if someone else steals that cut. This would be similar to charity money being …

I would argue that the consumer was deceived as well. People may click the links intentionally to also support the creators. They expect the affiliate money to go to that creator. …