They used to say this about gay people too, but in fact in both cases there is a biological cause.

In fact it would be odd if transgender people didn't exist, given that conditions where part of the body develops as the opposite sex to the rest of it are far from unheard of in humans. The idea that the brain would somehow be excluded has no scientific basis.

Has the "it was worse 1000 years ago" line every worked on anyone?

True. It's never just one bigotry.

The one he was grooming to be his protege turned out to be transgender, and thus started Musk's descent into transphobia. It's not clear if he was always quietly transphobic, or if he just can't stand the thought of his designated successor being a woman.

To be fair I do tend to strip it down a bit on my systems. For a year I ran 10 on 4GB of RAM and a SATA SSD.

Interesting. That is the opposite of my experience. Chrome is noticeably faster than Firefox on every machine (desktops, laptops, Android phone). Even with the limited uBlock Lite on Chrome.

From a technical point of view that makes sense. Chrome has some performance features that Firefox lacks. Execution of Javascript while it is also being compiled is one example.

I stick with Firefox for other reasons, but speed is not one of them. Then again, although I rarely use Chrome these days, it never crashes, and certainly never did back when I was using it as my main browser.

It's only fine to the extent that it is also fine on Windows 11. Despite what some people claim here, while not super fast Windows 11 will allow you to browses the internet just fine on 8GB of RAM.

And people wonder why the birth rate is so low. The planet is buggered and everyone with two brain cells to rub together knows it.

We can't rely on the US because corporations wrote the laws. We can't rely on the EU to fix this either, because it will take them a decade to investigate.

Chinese manufacturers bringing DRAM to market is the only hope we have of getting some semi-affordable RAM.

This could have some interesting effects. By 2030 we may be seeing Chinese phones and computers shipping with 64GB of RAM, while Western brands have had to scale back to 8GB due to not being legally allowed to buy the cheap stuff.

Sure, although I'd point out that Mac OS on the Macbook Neo, the machine it is a rival to, also runs very poorly on an 8GB RAM machine.

It's not about being a "pussy", it's about deciding what they want in life. If you want them to make a different decision then you need to make your preferred alternative more attractive.

Don't have to be a profit^w prophet to see that coming.

Same as the base Macbook Neo. I thought Linux was super efficient though? Surely you can run a decent desktop on that.

You can suggest that, but you are saying "give up your close ties to family/friends/social life", and "move further from your job, or find a new one". Obviously if they really want kids they will make it work, but it's the ones who would like them but are not willing to give up so much of their lives, and limit themselves to one or zero.

The "fuck you, kids are your problem and I'm not paying for them" attitude has a lot to do with the declining birth rate in some countries.