There’s a big difference between “heated” and “burnt” tobacco. Same as with weed vaporization vs smoking, vaporization is much healthier compared to inhaling burnt plant material.

Farmers would disagree

The moon, probably

It’s illegal if the fact that a service fee would be added wasn’t shared before ordering (on the menu / by the waiter /…)

He might’ve borrowed them from a library.

OpenAI could’ve trained on borrowed ebooks as well

Knife, scissors, stuff like that probably

Worst case, they can keep chugging along without any changes, except maybe stopping the donation “nag”.

It’s honestly kinda perplexing.

Everyone keeps talking about taxing the rich but when someone offers to give a nonprofit we all love a billion dollars it’s suddenly the worst thing on the planet.

If the deal were real of course

Honestly, they’d be stupid not to take it.

Imagine how much you could do with a billion. It’d perpetually sustain the organization, it’d allow them to hire translators and writers, resulting in better content for all of us.

Hell, I’d take it, and 99.9% of people on this planet would too.

Won’t work, can’t work.

There are companies which have insane revenues but tiny profits - let’s say manufacturing, where you need to pay a shitton for materials and workers, just to get a bit in return.

There are also companies where the main source of income is selling people’s time, say a consulting firm like McKinsey. Their income/revenue ratio is gonna be totally different from the first example.

I’m sure there are good ways to do it but this ain’t one of them.

That’s literally it though

hypocrites?

Wouldn’t fit very well into something like a smartphone though

Yeah so what I’m saying is if they got paid enough, same or more than what they’re getting with tips, we wouldn’t need to tip.

Maybe they are pushing for higher tips because they aren’t paid enough?

Windows on ARM is really incomparable to MacOS on ARM, it’s like comparing a 15yos Hello World to a senior engineer’s 10yo project.

Yes, for simple web browsing ChromeOS is just fine, but you can do so much more with a fullblown system. The performance is also in another league.

I honestly would say that the 16GB mbAir is good value, if it fits your use case (no gaming / heavy x86-only programs).

Don’t forget Apple makes a shitton of money from services (AppStore, iCloud…), which often make a lot more money than hardware (so Sammy is at a disadvantage here).

I’m not trying to convince you the Apple’s awesome, I don’t think that myself either (on the contrary), but their chips just are pretty awesome

They’ve built a translation layer in for compatibility, though it’s not perfectly fast, it’s more than good enough from what I’ve heard.

It being Unix based definitely helps, though don’t doubt Apple wouldn’t have been able to deal with it if that weren’t the case.

The chips really shine in laptops, I’d say desktops are a bit weaker, unless you’re doing something heavily optimized (Final Cut Pro f.e.).

The biggest win is energy consumption, the difference is insane, I recommend you look up a benchmark or two, can range from 2 to 10x more efficient.

I honestly don’t agree though that they’re 3x the price of comparable products, the new Macbook Airs are pretty solid pieces of hardware for an okay sum of money. It really depends on your workload though, if you’re gaming, you’re gonna have a terrible time, if you’re a dev / work in the browser / do some light editing you’re gonna love the battery life and perf’s not gonna hold you back.

They use ARM now, which is super efficient, the laptops last forever on battery.

If there’s one thing Apple’s done right, it’s Apple Silicon

$350 in hardware sure, hardware that someone had to design and especially nowadays with Apple Silicon, that shit doesn’t come cheap