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Usually (ime) it’s just another cumfy chair like the one she’s sitting on. Never had a chaise longue, nor have I ever seen one. Maybe 100 years ago, but nowadays it’s a cartoon thing.

Elon Musk was a trendsetter!

You nailed it, except “huge generalization” is actually being generous. The article is simply wrong. The author is speaking esoteric technobabble:

The upgrade death spiral (…) happens because upgrading one component of your computer can unbalance the system.

It’s the sort of argument a husband might give his not tech savvy wife when she asks why he repeatedly needs to spend so much $$$ on something only he uses.

I think FOMO says it pretty well, or simply consumerism.

Now that hardware is getting more expensive again, this is really sending the wrong message.

And OP keeps doubling & tripling down despite basically every comment disagreeing. I think they wrote that article.

Aye.

And OP is doubling down.

Not sure what “future proof” means, but my PC still has its original case from Windows Vista times, has seen 2 mobo replacements, 1 PSU replacement, and I don’t even know how many hard drive / SSD additions / swaps. RAM extensions too. Used to have a GPU but after the 2nd mobo/CPU replacement I dropped it.

Different screens, keyboards, and mice.

None of this would have easily been possible on a laptop.

In a world where hardware is getting more expensive again you are really sending the wrong message here.

Not to speak of environmental impact & consumerism.

CPUs are the same with real performance needed a new chipset and motherboard. At that point you are replacing the whole system.

I find the quoted statement untrue. You still have all peripherals, including the screen, the PSU, and the case.

You can replace components as and when it becomes necessary.

You can add up hard drives, instead of replacing a smaller one with a larger one.

Desktop mobos are usually more upgradeable with RAM than laptops.

There’s probably more arguments that speak against the gist of this article.

As soon as you leave English language wikipedia this happens fairly often. Not necessarily Russian, maybe adjacent. And not since yesterday! I noticed around Corona, and it’s been a problem for way longer. It’s relatively easy for 1 editor to slip through unnoticed if there isn’t enough eyeballs on the article, and hey they can write what their overlords tell them unchallenged.

Is the article anything beyond iOS advertisment?

Take my upvote 😡

So true. There are sociological studies about at which distance to each other people in different countries start feeling uncomfortable. In Finland it’s very high, several meters depending on the situation. Pictures like these (people waiting for the bus in a snow flurry) are common:

Or this cartoon from “Finnish Nightmares”:

IMO guys like OOP, and lots of conservative memes, are more about getting a reaction out of ideological/political opponents and then laughing about that. That is the thought process, but it doesn’t have to actually happen this way, which makes it even sadder.

In other words, they imagine libs getting mad at their jokes, and that’s the joke.

Other people have described this much better than me.

I’m not sure exactly where BB falls here, but at least partly the above applies.

Apparently this guy is a joker/troll, but still on the MAGA train. Satire, but uncritical of the thing it’s satirizing? Maybe like Babylon Bee?

First of all, these often cited surveys ask about being content, or satisfied, not “happiness”, a term most Finns would feel overwhelmed by.

And this article, like so many others, is about summer and Helsinki. Not winter and somewhere less cultural.

And, believe it or not, national surveys have revealed that we are less happy now than a few years ago, thanks to our conservative-neoliberalistic-fascistoid government.

That said, it still is a great place to live, winter has its charms too, now that the days are getting longer again and there is proper snow, and if I ever had to live in a big city again, Helsinki would be a good choice.

That’s how I read that as well.

Could it really be as simpe as that? yes, according to the article. AI sucks so hard, who let it out of a laboratory?

Identifying Corporate Devices

The what now?

The author develops a tiling window manager for Windows. It comes with a dual license - free for personal use etc., paid for corporate devices.

I have no opinion on this because I’ve been using only Linux for over a decade, just wanted to clarify the term.

Thanks. Something like this (e.g. farside.link) should be automatic on all Lemmy servers.

I guess he thinks The Don, who kicked him out of the club, is the bad 1%?
Well, Muskrat being the world’s richest 12yo is nothing new.

BTW:

You say you’re self sufficient (but you don’t dig your own coal)

I think that what you’re frightened of more than anything
Is knowing you need workers more than they need you

There’s a Black Mirror episode like that.