Which is funny as the top five comments all fell into the exact trap that the original comment was about – confusing people with software.
Which, to be fair, isn't surprising. If so many people weren't confusing people with software the original comment would have not been posted in the first place. We are here because that confusion has become so commonplace.
I think it speaks to a lack of practical empathy. Society has costs, and people need different things from that society, which often changes over time. "I don't want my taxes doing to [schools|mental hospitals|Roads|Elderly care]" statements ignore the things people DO get benefits from, or might if their circumstances change.
A lot of it might be coming from deteriorating social bonds. A propensity to see your neighbor as a number, a statistic, rather than a fully fleshed human being with the same human needs and weaknesses as you.
Sure, with a little bit of High School Civics. If it's not made explicitly clear what membership in a functioning society gets you, and you're not shown what other people experience, and you don't receive obvious assistance by being a member of that society, you get %waves hand around at everything in general%
That's not accurate. For an average user 8Gb RAM shared with the GPU and a really fast nVME bus...the RAM is just L4 Cache at this point and there's little to no penalty to using swap like there was with north bridges, south bridges and spinny disks.
The only penalty is using up your flash's write cycles; but of course, this works to Apple's favor because it means you'll need to replace this thing sooner when the flash dies. Best part? You can't easily replace the flash because it's soldered to the board.... and the amount of people that could do this repair properly is close to non-existent.
Eventually...maybe...considering the sectors get flagged and there's spare sectors to be rolled into service...and odds are the battery is the real bottleneck before the Flash becomes an issue.
Democratization is the act of empowering so many people that none of them can make a living at it anymore.
Pick a hobby of interest in Youtube and there'll be a top of a pyramid where people have the right mix of attractivenes/message/marketing...and then hundreds to thousands of other people scrounging for scraps. (see Full Time RV)
Honestly, it kind of warped my brain. Every fall my anxiety would peak until I found whatever project I had to keep entertained during the winter months.
You know, for KPI.
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