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.
For everyone else needing to block stuff:
Torrents:
- 1337x for torrents
- YTS for HD movies
- EZTV for shows
Streaming:
- fmovies
- popcornflix
- stremio
- movie.sqeezebox.dev
Weird that it listed crackle, I thought that was owned by Sony and had licensed stuff on it. I remember using it twice on my PSP because that was the only streaming video app for it.
Also weird to list snagfilms which was also licensed stuff
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.
There is a professional benefit to networking by engaging in marital infidelity with Brad from Scranton. You both did unspeakable things with those prostitutes together, which means your maintenance crew will probably buy toilet paper dispensers from him and he'll give you a good rate.
Furry conventions remove that part unless you're an artist making bank from commissions because instead of the Catholic church paying you to paint a mural on a chapel that takes 100s of years to finish building like in the olden days, some senior IT guy is paying you to draw on a Wacom tablet the mental image he has of himself as a muscular blue wolf fucking a big tittied pink cat.
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 can't believe you mutilated your hand after I specifically told you not to, wtf"
They executed people who killed babies with leaded milk a while ago, but those guys were also responsible for death.
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.
This is probably in a house worth 200k in the middle of nowhere in the midwest