There are tons and tons of websites where you can create an account with just your email. I wouldn’t expect a third party account to be mandatory. Specially from a product like this one.

Maybe this is a pet peeve but it’s a vpn tool that forces you to log in with an “identity provider”. Yeah, no thanks.

I do remember those ads but I did not know about the IBM Personal Computer distinction, to be honest. Thanks for the added context!

You’re right. I should’ve said “the guy who argues swastika isn’t just a nazi symbol”, because that’s essentially what you’re saying

Ok yeah, sure. A couple of ads a random tech company ran are the same thing as the Nazi regime. Give me a break. It’s an erroneous analogy and you know it.

You do know that Android and most modern gaming consoles support kb+m?

They support it but that’s not what they were designed for. Don’t be obtuse.

So it’s okay to misuse words when you also misuse them, but not okay when you don’t misuse them? What are you, a self-important hypocrite?

A) I’m not misuing anything B) You’re starting to sound quite like a douche.

or you end up becoming the guy who argues that drawing swastikas doesn’t make you a nazi because it’s a symbol of luck.

That’s a very poor and far-fetched analogy.

good luck defining what a computer is

A computer that runs an OS designed to be used with kb+mouse. See? It wasn’t that hard. Refusing to call a Windows computer a “PC” as if that were the only thing it could be doesn’t mean that I’m obtuse. It just means that I refuse to abide by the rules set by a set of crappy, inaccurate ads a massive corporation ran like 13 years ago.

Save yourself the headache and use PC as you understand it while accepting that others have a different meaning for PC.

Thanks, but no. If you want to misuse the term, go ahead. I’m just as free to point out the incorrect use of the term if I want to.

Even if that were true, does that mean that we should all accept it and drink the Apple Kool-Aid? A PC was, is and will always be a Personal Computer.

If you want to eat up Apple’s marketing then yeah.

In that case it would be a Windows laptop. PC stands for Personal Computer. It has nothing to do with the OS.

I would hope 16C/32T CPU from 2017 could handle software transcoding

I didn’t say it couldn’t handle it. Just that it was very inefficient.

peak power consumption while playing a movie does not really matter compared to idle power consumption

I mentioned both things. Did you actually read my comments?

I think it’s a point of a interest for any hw running 24/7 but you do you.

Regarding transcoding, are you saying you’re not even doing it? If you are, doing it with your cpu is far more inefficient than using a gpu. But again, different strokes I guess.

Isn’t ryzen not recommended for transcoding? Plus, I’ve read that power efficiency isn’t great. Mostly regarding idle power consumption.

How is this a meme?

The Os, Us and the way indians speak (meaning, their choice of words and cadence) is usually pretty distinct as well.

You should watch more horror films.

Yeah but how many people you kbow actually formatted their sd card to install apps on it? Everyone I know (and myself) use it only for media.

Well, that was a lie to justify screwing over their users.

I literally never heard or read about a user say that when using an sd card. They just took it out to charge more for more storage.

he’s been*

I’m neither smug nor a liberal. I’m simply tired of repetitive, dumb and US centric political memes. Lemmy started out sort of ok but it’s turning into a very annoying place.

Do you want people to stop coming here? Because this is how you can get people to stop coming here.