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Cake day: September 17th, 2023

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  • there is no chance you would get back to the Intel system and plug it in every 2 hours.

    don’t be irrealistic. most laptops in the Macbook price range will have 8 hours of usage in low consumption mode or around 6 or 5 if you need more power.

    and at that price point they come with at least 32 GB of RAM which can be upgraded, swappable SSDs with more capacity than the macbook’s, far better keyboard and more ports.

    the Macbooks do have some extra performance per battery usage? yeah I guess. But after 2 years that the battery life is gone, you’ll probably be buying the newer model or wishing that you bought a laptop with a replaceable battery.



  • People bring up XMPP but nobody wanted to use XMPP the majority of people were using Google Talk or Facebook Messenger.

    Do you realise how hypocritical this is? Using the fediverse is effectively using XMPP in this analogy.

    Just compare the 100 million users of Threads vs the 1.5 million MAU of the fediverse.

    Threads is the corporate-backed proprietary service (Google talk) and the fediverse is the small network of federated servers hosted mainly by volunteers (XMPP).

    By using the Fediverse you are already explicitly choosing not to use Facebook or X or Reddit.

    By using XMPP you were explicitly not choosing Google Talk or Facebook Messenger. How is this any different?

    The large social media companies already have larger user bases and more content and if people here wanted that they’d leave already.

    XMPP users said the same about XMPP. And it was true, to a certain extent. The federated XMPP network is alive to this day, I’m in a few chat rooms and have a few contacts there.










  • As a Mexican, you are. And there’s nothing wrong with that. It’s not a racist term. It’s just like calling someone from France an European. Or someone from South Korea an asian.

    The French guy will probably have nothing in common with a swedish, yet they happen to be both European, just like a Japanese will have a totally different culture than a Mongol, yet they are asians.

    You can of course tell people to stop calling you a latino if you want to. However society automatically puts labels on people and they will call you whatever they want. If I were you, I’d just stop giving it any importance.