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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

It would only be fair. But who cares? There was enough material before already. USA is ridiculous in its own ways, just like any nation. But they never had any sort of moral superiority, not when they enslaved all African Americans, attacked Mexico, invaded Puerto Rico, nuked Japan, bombed Germany, Korea and Vietnam, sabotaged Cuba, ruined South American democracies, supplied arms to Afghan religious fundamentalists, conquered Afghanistan, dismantled Iraq and Middle Eastern stability, aided Israel in the systematic displacement of Palestinians. This is just another low.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

A bug it is not, a feature it is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's not allowed with books

Have you ever heard of the mysterious places called "libraries"? IA does not "republish" anything, it is an archive.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hey buddy, do you want to try some of this GNU/Linux?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In what world are you living where 10 A is on the low side for general-purpose electronics?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Yep, for better or worse, Intel is pretty much the only remaining Western "bleeding-edge" CPU designer manufacturing its products in its own fabs. I find it weird that so many people seem to root for Intel to fail.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Unix is literally the most important operating system (specification) family on the planet. Even bigger than M$ Windows. You've got all the Android phones, all the Apple iPhones, macOS, FreeBSD and all the GNU/Linux distributions. Unix-like installed base is by far the largest of any on the planet.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yep. They tried desperately to build up an IT economy and for that wanted to appease all the tech companies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But that is not the comparison they drew, and you know that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Dumbed down hardware? No, the hardware of smartphones is very impressive. It is the software that is dumbed down in the sense that it takes control away from the user or operator.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

How did any generation not grow up with the technology as it evolved? Gen X did not invent computers, nor did the Boomers, but every generation made valuable contributions, just as Gen Z will. Again, it is the actions and ideas of gifted individuals that count.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Not a very enlightened take. As @[email protected] correctly put it, tech savviness is the property of an individual and not of a generation. There are non-savvy Zoomers, just as there are non-savvy people from your generation.

 

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