What are you doing where you have to drive around aimlessly?

Ah so it’s all disc format. I was worried tape was making a combat outside of storage.

There’s no source in your comment so it’s taken with a pinch of salt. But I’m more amazed that DVDs are only half of physical sales. Unless Blu-ray is the other half of physical sales.

I mean I develop software on an 8GB laptop. Most of the time it’s fine, when I need more I have a desktop with 128GB ram available.

Really depends what type of software you’re making. If you’re using python a few TB might be required.

I get around this by simply not buying a Mac. Free’s up so much money for ram.

Oh for sure, I remember buying my first SSD and booting windows in under 10 seconds and being like whaaaat.

I am starting to think maybe I am a ram hog.

It’s not worth trying to understand windows ram usage, it will drive any same person insane. The laptop uses intel optane as it’s main drive, which is slower than an SSD but much much lower latency so should actually be perfect for the job of being swap. But it shit the bed.

I’m not forgetting that, but it won’t just clear that ram it will want to put it into swap, and depending on your storage speed that can slow tasks down. Making it quite stuttery.

Her laptop just wasn’t having it, windows 11, windows was using 3.7gb ram took about 30 seconds for task manager to open. As soon as I upgraded the ram is was usable.

I checked for any surprising background services or anti virus software and there was nothing really

My girlfriends mum wanted to know why her laptop was slow… It was because HP thought that 4gb of ram is acceptable in 2022 (when the laptop was sold). Granted ram wasn’t as cheap then as it is now… Still I paid £30 for a brand new 8gb DDR4 sodimm, there’s not reason hp couldn’t do that. It’s annoying the corners these company cut.

I wouldn’t say 4gb is usable for the average consumer. Using the assumption they’re using windows 11 that’ll eat 3.7 ish GB of ram just idling.

And here I am, putting 16gb in every machine I work on because it’s so damn cheap there’s no reason not to future proof

Lemmy is also a propaganda machine, let’s ban this platform too then.

Obviously IANAL but I suppose this arguement can be used in UK courts citing the European court

I think what needs to be considered here is what we consider a waste of electricity. Efficiency calculations are dependent on waste, So I personally think electric cars are a waste of resources, they consume electricity to run and consume non renewable resources to produce just to move a maximum of 1-5* people per journey. Whereas an electric which still uses this resources can move over 10x that amount per journey, and trains over 30x that amount per journey.

So to me that’s energy inefficiency at the consumer point.

Now let’s look at energy generation and transfer. At the moment, alot of energy production is a for profit business, Company A builds a solar farm, Company B builds a Coal power plant and Company C (This would be overseen by the government, not a private company) builds a nuclear reactor. All 3 of these companies produce various amounts of electricity with different efficiencies, but all must be sold at the same price. It might only cost £0.01/KwH on the solar farm to produce, but must be sold for £0.33/KwH, the coal would be £0.27/KwH and nuclear would be £0.45/KwH.

You have 3 generation methods, each with strengths and weaknesses all being forced to sell for the same price. Normally in a capitalist system you see “Competition” (not really) on the market. Company A would say “We’re cheap, but can only guarantee 97% uptime due XYZ issues”, most homes would be fine with me this. Company B + C “We’re not as cheap but we can offer 99.9% uptime” This looks great for companies needing that security in uptime.

I’ve gone on a tangent and can’t be bothered finishing this post maybe someone else will.

I mean I owned a car from the ages of 18 to 25, never had a claim.

I’m 27 now and looked at getting a car for the odd time I need one and and insurance premiums are an average of £1100 to £1700. Why bother? I’ll just continue to get the train

Okay and what’s the difference between US companies stealing my data? I’m not American yet American companies are forever stealing my data.

I’ll just stop buying anything then

I know it’s fun to think “Chinese = bad” but I’ve had a Huawei matebook D14 for a few years now and it’s hands down the best value laptop I’ve ever owned. It’s reasonably spec’d (although is starting to show it’s age with only 8gb of ram). The build quality is fantastic, way better then any HP or Toshiba laptop I’ve owned. And has never had any thermal issues. I took it apart for the first time the other day for a clean and the disassembly was easy, no stupid mismatch of screws just simple. I will definitely buy another when the time is right.

The problem being average people don’t tend to understand what a zip file is, I regularly have to explain that you can’t run an executable from a zip

So you’re saying channel 4 makes allegations of rape against celebrities all the time?

If you watched the piece, there is video evidence of him being a disgusting piece of shit regardless. There was footage of him forcefully kissing a presenter and undoing her bra. The police failed to investigate. These women were failed by lazy, misogynistic police, just like they always are.

To top it off, slander laws in the UK are very strict, no one is going to post accusations like this without serious evidence to back themselves up.

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