MacNCheezus

Using Chinese characters instead of Arabic numerals is the equivalent of spelling out numbers in English.

Technically, they already did that once, back in 1861...

I have a five year old MBP here with 16 gigs of RAM and it runs the latest version of macOS. I can run multiple web browsers with dozens of open tabs, VS Code, an LLM, and a video editing app on it, all simultaneously, without breaking a sweat.

IDK what Apple's secret sauce is but their shit just works better than everyone else's, that's a fact.

I thought it was Flour Power

I do also have a 2019 MacBook Pro running Ventura (for when I want to get some work done) and I don't really notice much of a difference TBH.

That said, I haven't really benchmarked it in any meaningful or reproducible way and I mainly use the Windows laptop for gaming, so I rarely have more than a few apps open at any given time (basically browser, chat, Steam + whatever other game launcher is forcing me to use to run their shit). Meanwhile, on my MacBook, I tend to have a lot more apps running simultaneously and it still works smoothly despite only having 16 gigs of RAM so I guess MacOS still wins?

Honestly I don't really care, as long as Windows runs my games and MacOS runs my other stuff, I'm good.

My midrange gaming laptop which I bought a year and a half ago came with it preinstalled and it's nowhere near this guy's specs but I honestly have not had any problems either, and the whole rig cost me slightly more than his CPU alone.

Why is that image even there? It's not in the original article unless my adblocker is removing it for some reason.

EDIT: before anyone states the obvious, yes, I know how OG metatags work. What I'm asking is why would they chose that particular image, with the penguins and all, to accompany an article like that, and not, say, just a regular stock image of a German city?

Even stranger, the filename in the URL implies that this was potentially even intended: https://regmedia.co.uk/2024/04/04/shutterstock_kiel.jpg Almost makes me wonder if some intern put an AI image there for shits and giggles to see if anyone notices.

Finally, where exactly do you see any Nazi flags? All I can see is a red, white, and black livery, which ARE the colors that the Nazis used, but not in that arrangement. There are no swastikas anywhere (as far as I can see), so it seems as if this rather the flag of the German Empire, which also used the same colors, but predates the Nazis by a good 60 years.

Well, but did you at least pick up a Billy or an Alex on your way through the store?

Is it because half of them have guns and the other half would die without 2-ply toilet paper?

Just the thought of it alone makes me physically uncomfortable.

Well, that's what you get for letting a private company replace and open protocol with a proprietary solution because it's easier to use and has some cute emojis.

Nope. Those zany Brits literally eat sandwiches with nothing but potato chips on them (except butter).

Not only that, but there are literally dozens of websites with recipes and instructions on how to make them (as if that required any sort of further explanation). Unless this is some sort of massive prank they’re playing on literally the entire rest of the world, I’m led to believe they actually do enjoy eating this.