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vonbaghager · 11 months

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Nintendo putting out a surprise update for the 3ds--a console they no longer produce and have as of this year since ceased supporting altogether--which has the sole purpose of fucking over people who've hacked the console is yet another example on the huge pile of examples that Nintendo has a frankly bizarre amount of absolute, nonsensical, self-destructive loathing for anyone who doesn't immediately drop Old Thing in favor of buying New Thing

#The Apple company of video games

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cartierrings · 2 years

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Klarna's valuation plummets 85% as the "buy now, pay later" hype fades

Klarna’s valuation plummets 85% as the “buy now, pay later” hype fades

Currently, most of the services buy now, pay later do not affect a person’s credit score. It is now about to change in the UK Jakub Porzycki | NurPhoto | Getty Images Klarna saw its valuation trimmed by 85% in a new funding round announced Monday, reflecting gloomy investor sentiment regarding high-growth tech stocks and “buy now, pay later” lenders. The Swedish fintech firm said it had raised $…

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#business news #buy #Economy #fades #Goldman Sachs Group Inc #hype #Internet #Klarnas #Markets #pay #plummets #Retail industry #Risk capital #Says Holdings Inc #SoftBank Group Corp #Technology #the Apple company #valuation

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ms-demeanor · 8 months

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Since some people might want a Mac, I'll offer a Mac equivalent of your laptop guide from the perspective of a Mac/Linux person.

Even the cheapest Macs cost more than Windows laptops, but part of that is Apple not making anything for the low end of the tech spectrum. There is no equivalent Mac to an Intel i3 with 4 gigabytes of RAM. This makes it a lot easier to find the laptop you need.

That said, it is possible to buy the wrong Mac for you, and the wrong Mac for you is the 13-inch MacBook Pro with the Touch Bar. Get literally anything else. If it has an M2 chip in it, it's the most recent model and will serve you well for several years. Any new MacBook Air is a good pick.

(You could wait for new Macs with M3, but I wouldn't bother. If you are reading these guides the M3 isn't going to do anything you need done that a M2 couldn't.)

Macs now have integrated storage and memory, so you should be aware that whatever internal storage and RAM you get, you'll be stuck with. But if you would be willing to get a 256 gig SSD in a Windows laptop, the Mac laptop with 256 gigs of storage will be just as good, and if you'd be willing to get 8 gigs of RAM in a Windows laptop the Mac will perform slightly better with the same amount of memory.

Buy a small external hard drive and hook it up so Time Machine can make daily backups of your laptop. Turn on iCloud Drive so your documents are available anywhere you can use a web browser. And get AppleCare because it will almost certainly be a waste of money but wooooooow will you be glad it's there if you need it.

I get that you are trying to help and I am not trying to be mean to you specifically, but people shouldn't buy apple computers. That's why I didn't provide specs for them. Apple is a company that is absolutely terrible to its customers and its customers deserve better than what apple is willing to offer.

Apple charges $800 to upgrade the onboard storage from a 256GB SSD to a 2TB SSD.

A 2TB SSD costs between $75-100.

I maintain that any company that would charge you more than half the cost of a new device to install a $100 part on day one is a company making the wrong computer for you.

The point of being willing to tolerate a 256GB SSD or 8GB RAM in a Windows laptop is that you're deferring some of the cost to save money at the time of purchase so that you can spend a little bit in three years instead of having to replace the entire computer. Because, you see, many people cannot afford to pay $1000 for a computer and need to buy a computer that costs $650 and will add $200 worth of hardware at a later date.

My minimum specs recommendations for a mac would be to configure one with the max possible RAM and SSD, look at the cost, and choose to go buy three i7 windows laptops with the same storage and RAM for less than the sticker price of the macs.

So let's say you want to get a 14" Macbook pro with the lowest-level processor. That's $2000. Now let's bump that from 16GB RAM and a 512GB SSD to 32GB and 2TB. That gets you to $3000. (The SSD is $200 less than on the lower model, and they'll let you put in an 8TB SSD for $1800 on this model; that's not available on the 13" because apple's product development team is entirely staffed by assholes who think you deserve a shitty computer if you can't afford to pay the cost of two 1991 Jeep Cherokee Laredos for a single laptop).

For $3000 you can get 3 Lenovo Workstation laptops with i7 processors, 32GB RAM, and a 2TB SSD.

And look, for just $200 more I could go up to 48GB RAM and get a 4TB SSD - it costs $600 to upgrade the 14" mac from a 2TB SSD to a 4TB SSD so you could still get three laptops with more ram and the same amount of storage for the cost of one macbook.

I get that some people need to use Final Cut and Logic Pro, but hoo boy they sure are charging you through the nose to use products that have become industry standard. The words "capture" and "monopoly" come to mind even though they don't quite apply here.

"Hostile" does, though, especially since Mac users end up locked into the ecosystem through software and cloud services and become uncertain how to leave it behind if they ever decide that a computer should cost less than a month's rent on a shitty studio apartment in LA.

There's a very good reason I didn't give mac advice and that's because my mac advice is "DON'T."

#sorry i swear i know you're being nice #i am incapable of being nice when talking about apple #i was a total apple fangirl until the unibody #which is the domino that started all the other companies pulling shit like soldered RAM #they said 'fuck you - users shouldn't service their own computers' and I say 'fuck apple - users shouldn't use macs'#and that has been my stance on the matter since 2012 #which was the last time i bought a macbook because i knew i'd never buy a computer that would fight me to change my own battery

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dennisboobs · 5 months

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adam's apple

#iasip #it's always sunny in philadelphia #dennis reynolds #ada speaks #ada's gifs #is he trying to make it more or less noticeable....... the world may never know #dennisisms #tumblr user charmac pointed this one out everyone say thank you <3 #i assume he's trying to make it more noticeable because he's going on tv to be The Man that everyone Respects as the Face of the Company #but for him to even think about this #lol. lmao. ha ha even.#is there anything he's not insecure and/or dysphoric about #his adam's apple of all fucking things #i diagnose you with genderfuckedness

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yourspeirs · 2 months

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This parallel between Band of Brothers and Masters of the Air.

#dick winters #rosie rosenthal #richard winters #robert rosenthal #band of brothers #masters of the air #easy company #mightyeight #damian lewis #nate mann #hbo war #apple tv

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dearlystars · 11 months

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gregor wakes up and checks his phone only to see ryōshū has sent this to him for the forty-third day in a row

#property of ruf #limbus company #pmoon #not putting this in the character tags because it's dumb and stupid #an apple a day prevents trauma decay #acronym acrobat

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zegalba · 1 year

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Apple: “Quantum Foam” iMac Wallpaper (2000)

#apple #imac #wallpaper #y2k #me company #quantum foam #blue #transparent #oldweb #2000

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reckless-revolutionary · 6 months

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#america #african #africa #democratic republic of the congo #congo #free congo #save congo #sudan #save sudan #free sudan #big tech #big tech companies #smart phone #smart technologies #smartphone #smartwatch #apple #samsung #google

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applepies-and-starlight · 19 days

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Hey Limbus fans, I keep seeing everyone talk about this woman called Cathy recently, do y'all know who she is or...?

Because like, I don't remember seeing her anywhere in the game? And I know my memory's half decent at best but c'mon if she's such a big deal then I wouldn't be forgetting this easily, so I'm assuming she's just an oc who got wildly popular or something of the likes

(Also is she a selfship with Heathcliff or something? I keep seeing people draw her with him and I'll admit it's pretty cute, but a strangely specific choice, not meant to shame her op, just think it's strange to have someone so posh-looking with someone like him (granted I like Hongcliff too so I guess I can't make much arguments about that, just interesting y'know?))

#void screaming #limbus company #canto vi spoilers #canto 6 spoilers #canto vi #(ooc apple here: yes this can and Will be my running joke for the next few weeks or so)

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gifs-of-puppets · 1 month

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Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock (2022-Present)

#fraggle rock #fraggle rock back to the rock #red fraggle #diving #high dive #splash #muppet #muppets #the jim henson company #apple tv #gif #muppet gif #muppets gif #gifs of puppets

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kaiju-krew · 4 months

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Do you know of any less than official ways to watch Legacy of Monsters for those who dont have/cant afford an Apple Tv+ subscription?

#for legal reasons this is a joke #im not comfy posting links but it's not too hard to find just remember to use an adblocker!! keep ur comp safe!!#also this is a meme pls dont whine in my asks abt the morality of piracy apple is a multi billion dollar company they can handle it #ok? ok #kai talks

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mostlysignssomeportents · 3 months

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This is how you know it's a cult

This is how you know it's a cult. "If you want to read the Bible in the vulgate, why don't you become a Satanist? My faith requires that everyone who calls themself a Christian must worship as I do. Your choice to worship otherwise is an injury to me, even if I don't know you."

#Cult of Mac #apple #sideloading #dma #eu #hardware isn't a personality #buying from a three trillion dollar company doesn't make you part of an oppressed ethnic minority

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cartierrings · 2 years

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Here's what's hot - and what's not - in fintech right now

Here’s what’s hot – and what’s not – in fintech right now

There has been some sort of rotation from some pockets of fintech that were touted by venture capitalists last year, such as cryptocurrencies and “buy now, pay later”, and into less sexy areas focused on generating stable income streams. Jantakon Kokthong / Eyeem | Eye | Getty Images Financial technology is the hottest investment area for venture capitalists – $ 1 on every $ 5 of loans flowed…