If full time Walmart employees need government assistance programs to afford food and pay their rent, is it not Walmart who is leaning on government assistance?

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  • To the biggest degree it’s comfort elsewhere and numbers attracting numbers. To a smaller but still substantial degree it’s the same reason the top 3 phone brands have less customization and a more plug and play experience than rooted phones. It solves a huge amount of the problems with Reddit, but reddit is simpler to join, simpler to understand, feels more secure, and has so many communities and active users that even inactive communities can look active by how many people mistakenly post there.



  • Micron and Samsung have been accused of colluding in addition to utilizing the South Korean government as a bit of a puppet in their price wars. Now micron has formally announced they’re exiting the consumer market. They say that this will affect crucial, but obvious many 3rd parties use Micron as well. I think the odds of this announcement coming as a shock to either SK Hynix or Samsung is zero and most likely they are dividing their interests to help each other avoid competition to lower the price hikes they’ve fought for through years of stubborn supply “shortages”

    It’s also possible that Micron and Samsung are colluding against SK Hynix, since that has been the defacto leader for DDR5





  • Depends on the OS. They can be chopped down by removing windows aero / transparency features among some other memory hogs, plus if it has an nvme or sata SSD then virtual memory can do some fast enough heavy lifting. That being said, I think the last OS Microsoft made that could run functionally on 4gb without significant virtual memory useage is Windows 8 and I wouldn’t wish that experience on you, nor recommend it for security reasons. If you use Linux you probably won’t need to upgrade for a long while with that easy workload.

    My pi 5 acts like a normal decent computer on Linux builds but windows would crunch it.

    Edit just to say that the main task you need to worry about is likely decoding. If whatever APU or GPU you have doesn’t have a built in ASIC for modern hvec then I could see it lagging significantly regardless of OS and memory size. You also mentioned browsing, which means I wouldn’t recommend staying with the last MacOS you can get for security concerns. Linux seems like the obvious choice.






  • What you’re describing is a permanent underclass. While this does help the economy, it’s contrary to the point of social services, which is that they help society thrive. If members of that society are filtered out, then their children are held back, they can’t start their life and contribute to the housing market, they can’t afford to go to the hospital, and when it comes to life or death, they will go to the ER. Trying to box others out hurts you more often than not in sociological scales. The only exception is the clear cut divides between the rich and the poor. If you’re a billionaire then a permanent underclass is a demonic but objectively good thing for your bottom line.