I daily drove a laptop with 8gb of RAM less than a year ago. Works just fine for most tasks. Granted, at Apples typical price point, I’d want more than that, but it is far from unusable. Running VMs wasn’t fun though.

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Then there’s my code, which didn’t even survive the time change.

Yes. Once a Win10 troubleshooter solved a backwards-compatibility problem with an old XP game.

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Angry German heretics are pretty scary

Google Franciscans

As soon as someone makes a Lemmy client with really solid client side filtering, this platform will become almost usable.

That is probably an imposter

Matrix would be cool, if I knew literally anyone else who used it

This is why Fahrenheit is great. It’s a 0-100 scale for the temperatures humans typically experience with bonus off-the-charts temperatures for when it’s particularly miserable

Fair 'nuff

Your 90 year old grandmother hasn’t been paying a company to provide her with internet

Seriously, I mainly use Eternity (the Infinity fork) and even with aggressive filtering for anything even remotely political, stuff slips through.

Edit: And the built-in lemmy blocking features aren’t nearly enough to cut through it all.

This is not a conversation I expected to see on Lemmy

If the phone is lost/stolen/damaged, your SD card could be inaccessible too. Your backups are your business, but you are opening yourself up to all kinds data loss if your only backups are stored within the device in question.