My old laptop doesn’t have an M.2 slot

It ran fast enough in windows 8 and linux. It only became unbearable on windows 10

My hard drive couldn’t take all the background shit in 10, it would literally stutter scanning my files. When I tried to disable the anti-virus and it told me “I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that”

Windows 10 legit doesn’t work with hard drives. It keeps scanning and scanning endlessly, slowing everything down. If you go down the “disable useless services” rabbit hole you might go too hard and end up with a useless Windows install without being able to remember how you disabled the firewall, for example. It wouldn’t let me run the update without the firewall service running.

I just threw NixOS on it and only booted windows once since

Price gouging is a pejorative term used to refer to the practice of increasing the prices of goods, services, or commodities to a level much higher than is considered reasonable or fair by some.

Nothing to do with deceptive packaging.

It was greed

They can just raise the prices more

The rest went to shareholders

The rest always goes to shareholders. You imagine inflation going like this:

Price is $4, so it’s sold for $5. When the price goes to $6, it’s sold for $7

Inflation actually goes like this:

When the price is $6, it’s sold for $7.50 because shareholders don’t like lower margins

You won’t get it cheaper, that’s not how it works.

In other words, NixOS is based

They will just have to raise prices. It won’t actually benefit consumers

I thought the complaint is that they couldn’t recoup development expenses

Nice try, Satya

Is Amazon a tech company?

Google maps is already good enough as a replacement. In fact in some countries it’s the best review aggregator

Programming is already too hard for a regular person

They recoup it through shipping a default search engine that’s Google in 90% of the world

Yes, same here. After turning off a bunch of services I noticed update stopped working, but I forgot how I turned off the firewall in the first place to make it work again… Never booted windows again except for that one time to change the polling rate of my mouse (windows only app)

I guess when edge stops supporting v2 you’ll just look at ads then

I won’t

Or Firefox?

I don’t know if those work, and whether they continue to work against a state adversary. When you find a new workaround, there are ways to detect it

Reality is actually fairly hard to block because the VPN sends a hello to the camouflage website. It uses the connection to the camouflage website to pretend it’s sending data from it, when it’s actually sending data from the real destination.

They just block the VPN protocol, you need to pretend to be a website

It’s blocked, you need to set up hysteria or vless/reality to avoid VPN blocks which means you need to run the client

It’s blocked, you need to set up hysteria or vless/reality to avoid VPN blocks which means you need to run the client