He cannot retain information for longer so whatever the last person he talked with said that’s what he’ll repeat.

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?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board_of_Peace#Invitation_accepted

Arms deals already underway.

people whose every fifth sentence is “death to america”

I wonder why they say that.

All 3 members of the so-called board of Peace

What a farce

What’s US America’s obsession with Iran? Oil?

Is she even slightly more than just a US puppet?
What do these amnesties signify?

Opposition figures in Venezuela have expressed reserved optimism about the changes, wary that Maduro’s closest allies remain in power.

The overall response seems positive, but I have difficulty parsing the intricacies. Not fluent in Latin American politics/history. But I know that yet another puppet regime can’t ever be a solution.

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?

Holodomor

edit: whoeverthefuck downvoted this, it’s a valid comparison

Thanks! Many more countries than I thought. Ultimately no surprises, but still: This is really, really sad. Considering the whole thing is a grift and a strictly top-to-bottom structure, in other words autocratic.

My guess is most countries who got one will just leave it to rot somewhere. Unless it’s an election year, apparently.

Right now I’d be highly interested if anybody accepted at all…

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.

I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt for now.