It's been long enough that most of the people who wanted an M processor as their next laptop now got one, so I don't think it's surprising that sales are down, after the initial blips.

Overall computers are on the down. More people do their computing on tablets or just phones most of the time. In richer countries, windows marketshare is decreasing, and Apple's is increasing. Not really sure what else apple could do that they actually want to do.

It'd be nice if they had a MacBook SE type thing, but I don't think they'd do that. Chromebooks captured the education market so it's probably too late to do anything there. Mac minis are never in a position to break into the business small-PC realm because they aren't cheap enough. Also it'd be nice if mac minis were cheaper/better-value and more expandable, but people have asked that for years and never got it.

Storage replaceabity is a serious problem for their desktop offerings, but that's been an issue forever and they don't care because they sell iCloud, and their monthly services businesses are doing well.

Cathode Ray Dude and Techmoan if you want to see retro tech.

It's crazy how much artistry went into mechanical engineering of tape decks and stuff like that before circuit boards and components were small enough that everything is uncreative.

seconded, it's great for resuming learning sessions and stuff like that.

Being able to jump back into all the troubleshooting and stack overflow tabs whenever a problem reappears is great.

kulaks

Wrong country lol.

Considering this mod grew up Estonian, gotta credit them with backing down on the hammer and sickle thing.

Blockchain is a cool technology searching for a sensible application. The math is cool at least.

Pretty much none of the proposed ways to use it make sense, it's pretty inefficient as a currency and instead became an unregulated security that people were getting scammed on like it's the 1910s stock market. NFTs are dumb.

The only cool application was buying drugs online but it was too possible to trace transactions and feds cracked down on it.

I wonder what Desiigner is up to these days

"I can't believe you mutilated your hand after I specifically told you not to, wtf"

Crash? More like splash.

It's weird how many people I've made this exact point to but still go "nah, it's different, those dastardly CCP have some scheme"

People IRL, people on , tech YouTubers telling people to avoid chinese stuff even if you can flash open firmware on it, etc etc.

I can't even see all comments on lemmygrad threads from hexbear, even though I'm pretty sure we're as federated with them as possible because they're the only other people who aren't libs.

If I could at least log in on lemmygrad with my hexbear account then that would be more usable.

Or if the instance hosting the thread had final say on what's shown or not, regardless of the inter-site politics of who's federated with whom.

In an economy as tightly controlled as China, how much does deflation even matter?

Also I wonder how everywhere else having inflation will interact with this. Is China just getting affected because the rest of the world can't afford basic necessities anymore? The article kinda touches on reduced demand from countries with inflation abroad causing this, but also doesn't really explain anything other than going "lower number is uh bad"

It's been long enough that if they admitted to killing JFK then no one would care or change anything about their worldview.

No one even gave a shit about Snowden leaks, even though it proves we live in as much of a surveillance state that people claim China is.

I'd rather the Chinese know about my hemorrhoids than the NSA because what the hell is China gonna do about it.