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Comment Re: Is Windows 11 the cause of this? (Score 2) 37

Linux works fine with 4GB but apps don't. I know because my laptop came with 4GB and it was borderline unusable of I actually did anything with it. 8GB made it acceptable.

Meanwhile my desktop has 64GB of DDR4 and I'm real glad I bought it when I did. Most people don't need that much, but I do VMs sometimes and it's important. OTOH gaming showed significant improvements going from 16 to 32.

Comment Re:Measurable levels vs. toxic levels (Score 1) 57

Toxicity is always a function of concentration. Always. Even water is toxic if ingested at high enough levels.

This (the water part) is one of those things that sounds clever at first and then obviously isn't when you think about it some more.

Sealed plastic containers are highly effective at controlling bacterial growth, for example.

We could and do use other kinds of containers with a plastic seal which is not in contact with the contents during storage.

Flossing your teeth with plastic (nylon) is universally recommended by dentists for dental health. [...] Many of these health-*positive* uses would be very difficult to reproduce with other materials.

Nylon is notable in large part because of its stability. This means it leaches less than do some other plastics. Not all plastics are created equal, and we shouldn't pretend they aren't. Nylon is one kind of thing, and Vinyls are another kind, for example.

Comment Re:At this point I’m fine with all this (Score 2) 90

If society wants to return to the âoestrong executiveâ model, fine, whatever. Thatâ(TM)s what we had before Nixon. Returning to it wonâ(TM)t demolish our democracy.

You can't demolish what doesn't exist, but you can play games to fool rubes into thinking it does so that you can make good use of their idiocy.

If the supreme court allows Trump a bunch of extra powers and immediately yanks them back when the next liberal president shows up, I have a big problem with that.

You should have big problems with it in the first place. Allowing Dear Leader to do whatever he wants is bad no matter what party he belongs to.

Comment Re:Seems reasonable (Score 1) 63

I've had consoles since I used a Coleco Telstar to burn bars into the phosphor on a TV in the late 70s.

That was my first console as well, except I got it in the 80s. I had the really big white contoured one.

Gaming consoles just don't offer what they used to. It used to be they did things your PC couldn't. Now they're just a slightly discounted PC you're not allowed to run whatever you want on.

Comment Re:This is wrong (Score 1) 198

If you want the government to mandate everything, you need to move to the USSR, or maybe North Korea.

That's desperately ignorant. The US government already does regulate essentially everything, and whatever it doesn't, the states or municipalities or your local fucking HOA does. The USA is massively authoritarian and has been for over a century.

The employees' pay is more or less in equilibrium with the market for their services.

It's less. Pay attention. Also, that is not a win. It means the poor are kept poor.

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