As a result, these families received thousands death threats.

https://www.npr.org/2024/09/19/nx-s1-5114047/springfield-ohio-haitian-migrants-trump-safety-concerns

There should be absolutely no playing nice with these people.

Hey relax, take it easy now, don’t make crazy demands on Microsoft.
They’ve just recently released Windows 11, and I’m sure they will have it completed soon,
and have all core features broken.

WTF? blocked.

Authoritarian means it is NOT a democracy, which was the point.

That’s completely irrelevant, the argument was democracy.
You seem to have some sort of attention problem.

If you are referring to South Africa you are a moron.
Because South Africa was very much an authoritarian leadership, and ruled by a white minority by force.
WTF is that reference supposed to show that does anything but support democracy?

No that all the problem you mention are worse in totalitarian countries.

Why do you first support my point, and then call me a moron?

Again with USA as the example, no other democracy had slaves like USA did.
On the other hand comparable stories to Stalin can be found in multiple autocratic systems.
Where USA is the exception as in exceptionally bad among democracies, what Stain did is commonplace among autocracies.

Please read my edited post.
And no I’m not anything remotely like a tankie, I am one who favor ACTAUL democracy, where among the best models we have running currently is the Scandinavian model.
A 2 party system can never be accepted as a functional democracy, also the level of corruption in elections is undemocratic. preventing people from voting and gerrymandering.
All those things detract from USA as a democracy.

You are delusional and create strawmen and then you think you have a superior view based on your delusions and false equivalences that have no basis in reality.

Compared to genocide by Stalin, ICE is peanuts.
But no it’s not justified, that still doesn’t make it an equal atrocity to what Stalin did.
Also USA is not a democracy, it is a deeply dysfunctional democracy. And In USA it can go 2 ways now, they either go full dictator, or if they go the other, these things will be softened.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excess_mortality_in_the_Soviet_Union_under_Joseph_Stalin

official records of 799,455 executions (1921–1953),[8][9][10][11][12] around 1.5 to 1.7 million deaths in the Gulag,[13][14][15] some 390,000[16] deaths during the dekulakization forced resettlement, and up to 400,000 deaths of persons deported during the 1940s,[17] with a total of about 3.3 million officially recorded victims in these categories.

So kindly piss off with your false equivalences.

My issue is the claim that such atrocities don’t happen in democratic institutions.

But that’s the point, they don’t. Atrocities can happen, but not as bad as such.
Just give one example of a democracy where an atrocity remotely close to that happened.

Welcome to the 1%. 😋
Yes there are some that switch, and also kudos to those who try, even when they find it’s not for them.
I’m just sad that the problems with Windows isn’t enough for more to abandon it? I simply don’t get “normal” people.

Backlash is actually losing business, what they are really getting is a lot of whining from people who never do anything anyway.
It was the same with Windows 95, XP, then Vista, then 8 and 10 and now 11.
Very few who are used to Windows will abandon it just because it’s becoming a surveillance hellscape of forced updates, advertising and other annoyances.
Microsoft is posting record profits on their way down, just like Intel did 10 years ago.
That said Microsoft is still in a better position, and while Windows may lose relevancy, Microsoft has way more revenue coming from other sources than Intel had without X86.

Rear camera: Wide (main): 50 MP, f/1.8, 24mm, 1/1.56"

That’s not a very big sensor for a premium phone main camera.
Seems like we now get cheaper camera to compensate for more expensive SOC?

Display: 6.78" LTPO AMOLED, 1B colors, 165Hz, PWM

PWM at what frequency? PWM is awful if it is not very high frequency as it creates flicker in the display. The only advantage to PWM is that it is dirt cheap to make and very easy to work with from a hardware perspective.

Not exactly a phone I’m getting excited about. I would have preferred better display and a higher end Camera system, and then a slightly slower SOC.
High end SOC’s are so fast now, that they are not a real limitation in my use of a modern phone, even if they are not the top model.

Just look at the Pixel phones, their SOC is about half as fast as top Snapdragon and Dimensity , and AFAIK nobody I have heard of is complaining about them being slow. It only shows on benchmarks, but is irrelevant for 99% of users.

Edit PS:
The 99% number is a very accurate statistic number I pulled from my…
Oh never mind. I hope you get my drift.

AFAIK nobody has died in a Waymo, and they have a very low accident rate, lower than human drivers. Calling it a suicide carriage is just not reflecting reality in any way.

I don’t understand the purpose of that, or how that would be irony.
Looks just like a dumb comment to me.

What a moronic question to ask on a Steam Deck sub?
Of course I have, and Steam deck was priced very aggressively, but info on who makes this Steam Machine and how it will be priced is 100% absent here.
There was a pretty massive attempt at launching steam machines years before Steam Deck, and that it didn’t go well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_Machine_(computer)

Following a two-year testing period, Steam Machines and its related hardware were released on November 10, 2015. By 2018, many Steam Machine models were no longer offered on the Steam store.

How does that raise the question whether I’m aware of Steam Deck???

There’s an LED strip, y’all!

Cool, I hope they keep that idea. 😀

Anyways it all depends on price/performance is good.
Previous attempts at 3rd party Steam Machines were not good in that regard.

Yes, it will definitely not be the 1% that eliminate poverty, but when a majority decides to do so.