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    Comment #49242124

    Iphones are still with the same price tag attached, bit you also get more compute for the same buck. You can find many examples like this.

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    Comment #49237125

    Doctrine means nothing. Russian doctrine says they should use nukes against Ukraine. But there is no point in uaing it, no advantage to gain. Russians will send you back 10x warhea…

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    Comment #49235051

    At my $day_job we are forced to use a shared virtual machine for all work activities. The Windows instance has 64gb of RAM, 8 virtual cores of old EPYC CPU and no GPU acceleration.…

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    Comment #49230988

    Given there are enough USB-C ports - it is not an issue. For old headphones buy an adapter and next time buy cheap USB-c headphones.

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    Comment #49230137

    >> nukes are not an argument for anything but main land defense from invasions But it is not an argument even for that. Imagine Russian tanks are crossing the border towards your c…

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    Comment #49229956

    RAM may be expensive for a person, but still is quite cheap for the company.

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    Comment #49229681

    It's not a concern untill the phone is bloated because of damaged battery. Also it can catch fire!

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    Comment #49226683

    It does not explain why your food is travelling 3k miles. For sure you can buy food grown within 500 miles, not delivered from other hemisphere.

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    Comment #49174028

    >> There's something seriously wrong in Redmond. Is it? People are buying this crap, why should MS spend more money to increase quality? They will receive the same quarterly revenu…

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    Comment #49133522

    Because it's a premium product, not a luxury.

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    Comment #49116286

    My Samsung phone is made in Vietnam.

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    Comment #49036811

    And trillionaires are directly shipped from Mars!

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    Comment #49036786

    We are all family! They just forgot to mention it is a pretty dysfunctional one.

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    Comment #48999513

    They said with AI nowadays less people can do more, be more productive than ever! /s

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    Comment #48984035

    But email access is protected by MFA based on your destroyed device. Recovery codes are also stored in the same destroyed building.

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    Comment #48982790

    At least you can restore it. Imagine all your devices are lost in a massive fire, is there a way to get back your apple account?

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    Comment #48978356

    Lot's of European cars have 3 cylinders instead of American V8.

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    Comment #48966794

    >> People often work to build things without any thought given to those who have to maintain it afterwards. Especially when it's not them Because for maintenance there is a differe…

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    Comment #48925818

    Why should they invest into quality if people are using it as is? No one is promoted for bug fixing, but can get promotion for buggy redesign.

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    Comment #48910693

    Both AGI and nuclear fusion are a few short years away.

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    Comment #48893649

    Many countries are sending aid to Ukraine, as well as some are sending aid and troops to russia. You should call it WW3, where NATO is fighting Axis powers (russia, NKorea, Iran). …

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    Comment #48876496

    Polish estimates are closer to 20k, btw. And Polish forces executed thousands of Ukrainians as well during the same events. Also don't forget russians executed 22k Polish prisoners…

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    Comment #48876461

    No, you can join as well. Even russians can join, however there are strict background checks.

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    Comment #48876444

    How is it a NATO-russia war of NATO is not taking a participation? You can call it NATO-Iran, or NATO-NKorea war as well. Ukraine-Nkorea war? At least there were direct contacts be…