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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.

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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?

ebay

Pretty sure there’s some good reason to boycott them, but they’re not Amazon.

So Whatsapp, despite using E2E encryption, always has the keys to decrypt your messages? Did I get that right?

Oh. That puts a damper on things. But it still could be the catalyst that makes more cops act against ICE.

The NYCLU recommends focusing on ICE agents themselves where possible to document their activity, rather than using the camera to follow the people impacted by agents’ actions.

Additionally, recording for as long as possible, even after interactions with agents appear to be over, is a way of ensuring that you capture any unexpected activity that could crop up as a crowd is dispersing.

While it may be tempting (and often newsworthy) to immediately post video footage of ICE or other immigration official activity to social media as soon as it is safe, you may want to pause before doing so. “It can expose people in the video to harm as well as the person who filmed it,” says Zammuto from Witness.

Precautions you could take, depending on the situation, include blurring the faces of bystanders in the video, scrubbing metadata from files, and removing location data.

Playing devil’s advocate, I think it was more because a) he wasn’t quite as “important” as he is today, maybe a bit too young even, and b) he wanted to come with his young wife, which had Epstein squirming to explain that maybe it isn’t the right kind of party for her 🤮
Also, the top 2 places in that department still go to Donny and Epstein himself.

I just read excerpts from a BBC article: he was so eager to go but got brushed off at least 3 times, with terms like “unfortunate” and “rescheduling”. Around 2012/2013.

That’s how I read that as well.

Can they arrest people without telling them or their lawyers what they are being charged with?

Right you are to ask! The answer should be no. According to media lore this has always been optional in the USA. Anecdotally also in reality, at least until now. More recently it seems to be the norm.

Of course due process and such still exist, but this whole admin works around the principle that higher-ups have absolute power to simply dictate how things are done. Wait, “dictate”? So, what do we call the whole thing then?

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

Cheesus.

It’s like every time somebody says “this is exactly like Germany in the 1930s” they deliberately notch it up. At this rate it’s going to be 1945 by the end of the year.

True for content that is available this way, and if you have a flatrate broadband connection.