What do you expect? France isn’t able to remove a democratically elected leader, nobody but the people of the USA can do that. From Europe we can call those fuckers clowns, we can punish the US as a whole for choosing these clowns (or at least for letting them rise to power), but even for that we have to be careful because we have plenty of incentive to not go in too hard. Europe won’t help, Europe shouldn’t have to help. US Americans created this problem and they’re the only ones we can ultimately solve it.

Seriously? I have recently been working on my personal programming projects on my ThinkPad from 2014. That thing also has 8 GB RAM. It’s slow, but that’s only because the dedicated video card is no longer supported by NVIDIA. I was totally able to run PyCharm, my program (which was hungry for ram), and Firefox with quite some tabs open without any issues. And most people will be doing more basic stuff on this than what I was doing. Browsing around, editing some documents, viewing some photos. I’m not sure how heavy MacOS is, but I’ll assume it’s more like Linux than Windows. You can do a lot with 8GB if your OS isn’t gobbling up resources to spy on you, show you ads, or run some useless AI shit you didn’t ask for.

I agree that it’s not a lot, but this laptop is not meant for people who need to do more than what I mentioned, putting much more RAM in there would just creep up the price without really offering anything.

Note that I’m not an Apple fan or anything, I’ve never even used anything from Apple.

I became a “morning person”. Or let me rephrase that, I honestly stopped believing in the idea of morning or evening people. Whatever schedule you hold you body to, it tends to be okay with it as long as you’re consistent. And bonus points if it generally aligns with normal daytime. I still tend to drift a bit later during long holidays, but I can live with earlier mornings and tend to have my alarm in the same time no matter the day if the week. Unless I had a party or something.

Also, I also became very nostalgic. The music I listened to when I was a teen remains my favourite, and I’ve become very sceptical of newer trends. Back in “my day” everything was better lol.

And lastly, I finally get why my parents have barely any hobbies and instead just sit around or meet up with people. When I was young I always wondered why adults didn’t seem to care about learning new things. How their knowledge of subjects like math, biology, geography ,and physics had degraded after highschool. You come home after work and are tired. You need the weekend to recharge. I’ve already started working less (36 hours per week) and also have 36 days off in a year, which is extremely luxurious, yet I still managed to work myself into a burn-out. Unlike my parents’ generation, I feel like we grew up with an expectation to be more than your work. People my age (me definitely included) seem to care so much about the hobbies. Your side projects, programming, photography, art, music, sports, etc. It defines who I am, yet I have way to little time and energy for it next to being a cog in the machine.

I became a “morning person”. Or let me rephrase that, I honestly stopped believing in the idea of morning or evening people. Whatever schedule you hold you body to, it tends to be okay with it as long as you’re consistent. And bonus points if it generally aligns with normal daytime. I still tend to drift a bit later during long holidays, but I can live with earlier mornings and tend to have my alarm in the same time no matter the day if the week. Unless I had a party or something.

Also, I also became very nostalgic. The music I listened to when I was a teen remains my favourite, and I’ve become very sceptical of newer trends. Back in “my day” everything was better lol.

And lastly, I finally get why my parents have barely any hobbies and instead just sit around or meet up with people. When I was young I always wondered why adults didn’t seem to care about learning new things. How their knowledge of subjects like math, biology, geography ,and physics had degraded after highschool. You come home after work and are tired. You need the weekend to recharge. I’ve already started working less (36 hours per week) and also have 36 days off in a year, which is extremely luxurious, yet I still managed to work myself into a burn-out. Unlike my parents’ generation, I feel like we grew up with an expectation to be more than your work. People my age (me definitely included) seem to care so much about the hobbies. Your side projects, programming, photography, art, music, sports, etc. It defines who I am, yet I have way to little time and energy for it next to being a cog in the machine.

Too little too late. I’m already over to Linux now. Shit’s been going downhill even before this whole AI craze went off the rails. I hope Microsoft Windows crashes and burns

For some issues, especially related to programming and Linux, I feel like I kinda have to at this point. Google seems to have become useless, and DDG was never great to begin with but is arguably better than Google now. I’ve had some very obscure issues that I spent quite some time searching for, only to drop it into ChatGPT and get a link to some random forum post that discusses it. The biggest one was a Linux kernel regression that was posted on the same day in the Arch Linux forums somewhere. Despite having a hunch about what it could be and searching/struggling for over an hour, I couldn’t find anything. ChatGPT then managed to link me the post (and a suggested fix: switching to LTS kernel) in less than minute.

For general purpose search tho, hell no. If I want to know factual data that’s easy to find I’ll rely on the good old search engine. And even if I have to use an LLM, I don’t really trust it unless it gives me links to the information or I can verify that what it says is true.

Yeah I’m on a 5700 or something with 64 GB of DDR4 and I don’t see any issues with it yet. I went that route because I could keep my mobo and it was also way cheaper than DDR5 back then. I figured I’d rather have more older RAM than a full system upgrade.

Is RAM already at a price that it’s worth considering selling one of those sticks? :3

Yeah I’m on a 5700 or something with 64 GB of DDR4 and I don’t see any issues with it yet. I went that route because I could keep my mobo and it was also way cheaper than DDR5 back then. I figured I’d rather have more older RAM than a full system upgrade.

Is RAM already at a price that it’s worth considering selling one of those sticks? :3

The first thing I remember from that time is sitting in the living room and playing Halo, then hearing that the economy was crashing and everything was going to shit. And it kinda did, I remember a lot of stress about my parents keeping their jobs. I’m from the mid 90s and this is the first moment that I can remember where I became aware of how fucked up the world really was. A shattering of the protective bubble that you experience as a kid.

You’re probably aware, but Bitwig studio runs natively on Linux. And tools like yabridge can allow you to run many VST plugins as well. Though it remains a bit of a hassle compared to Windows. I’ve for instance lost access to a NI plugin because their new all-in-one installer/verification program won’t work on Linux

Not sure what hobby this is, but honestly it goes for almost every one of my hobbies. Especially photography. I could probably just get good with my Canon EOS 40D for digital and my Canon EOS 300 for analog photography. But collecting new gear is so satisfying. There’s always something new to improve. “If only I had X, then I could really do Y well”. Though I at least feel like I’ve somewhat contained myself. I haven’t bought any new camera or lens that was more than like 500 bucks, and honestly with what I have now I don’t really feel the need to upgrade.

Come back to be me when you’ve experienced the fine Dutch Cuisine of boiled potatoes, plain vegetables, and watery meat as the primary dish of your childhood. Occasionally the boiled potatoes are mixed with slightly undercooked potato slices, and potentially the spices kerrie or nutmeg may be added when the culinary level is exceptionally high that day.

I know potatoes can be better, but unless they’re fried I honestly don’t want them in my house anymore