Oh, I’m not disagreeing with it being weird, my main point was to switch the weirdness towards battery use as nothing else matters.

And CPU doesn’t bottleneck RAM usage.

As for use case (which again, I’m not disagreeing as my main point is “it wouldn’t affect you in any way other than battery” + “they prob went with the cheapest option that still works, just like they did with CPU”), prob apps being fully in RAM and not swap, not closing old apps, etc. So like FF & 3 chat/social media apps (they all have inefficiently big libraries), a few store and service apps (for car/taxi/food delivery/etc), none need to leave RAM. Idk how to get to 32, but perhaps over 16.

And again I point out that it’s just what they did for the project to survive, it’s clearly frankensteined from the cheapest sensible parts. In your analogy the i3 with 32 or 128GB of RAM, if sold at the same price, will preform the same for most users.

Bus already pointed out about actually having the chance to use the RAM.

In regards to cost - I would be confident they chose what was optimal, you can’t compare this to retail PC market, these are specific b2b deals, they could have literally gotten the 32GB chips significantly cheaper than 16GB.

What I’m not confident is battery usage, 32 giggies will use twice the power (which isn’t a lot but it is all the time, you don’t really turn off RAM) of the exact chip in 16 giggler flavour.

CPU bottlenecking isn’t really RAM related. And I wouldn’t say nowdays 5 year old CPUs are outdated (like a 5yo chip 10 or 15 years ago). I would use my phone much as my PC, so an old CPU but plenty of RAM sounds about what I want.
Also it’s Linux, not some bloated megacorp OS, so it’s a bit better, tho apps remain much the same (eg browsers & web pages).

The new eMMCs are 400MB/s (so SATA-ish level) with random writes about there as well, it depends what specifically they’ll be using. It’s also more power efficient than SSDs, however it can’t address more than 256GB (so consider SD speeds too).

There also isn’t anything wrong with having a lot of RAM if it doesn’t impact the battery considerably. Which it prob does.

Maybe ‘the same way windows is’ IBM-DOS

Soon to be closed-software Linux??? /s

Or wireguard, depending where & how they want to implement it might be simpler or better/worse on hardware.

By 0.1 inch?

People need to realise the next step in civilisation is not stealing labour so eventually we can transition to a society that gets it’s production from “play” (people produce what they like & how they like it) not from “work” (forced production to maximise financial profit of an entity).

You are right.

They are also about data security, so nobody can just erase, modify, or destroy/lose data. And all that applies to data handling and access as well.

Anything that logs all the communication.

Govs have their own apps, email servers, various other web-based tools to exchange data, etc. Usually also gov hardware (ie can’t use/access such gov apps on non-gov phones).

It’s not “what’s better” it’s what is mandated/required/the law.
Much like when you get a regular average job you have to use whatever is permitted - company email is the usual, can’t just deal with company data over your private email account where the company has no oversight.

Yes, ofc, using Signal was intentional to not keep any records/evidence.

Signal is the place for top secret communications, but not for any government business, top secret or not (at least not when using a public instance - they could fork the project to keep decryptable records on gov servers where the official gov instance would run).

Call ICE hotline, explain that her friends and family are all illegal aliens, then you can all meet at the ICE detention centre - no planning stress!

Oh, good thinking, yeah! Lol
(Also that is how force users would be used irl.)

There is also the whatever amount of power (fields?) was used for constant healing & prolonging life by Palpatine for himself & his lil puppy (Vader in my previous msg was a brainfart, I prob meant Sidious, but same diff … can’t brain today no more).

I bet this could be modified to make electricity via some chemical processes.

Finally!! Now I only need this 20yo game to become a 30yo game so I can play it with an average outdated GPU.

Oh, yeah, I understood that - it was the fact that this is for the everyday “consumer” (for consumers) tech that inspired the comment, that regular folk will get up & personal with such tech soon & make it a regular mundane chore.

I could think about how much electricity an electric plant produces (& couldn’t comprehend it in daily terms that would make sense), but sitting in a charging car you get a much clearer picture of what that means, of how much energy (and “how much driving”) is running through that cable every second, etc.

900 million population is more than enough.
(And that much better if they are all gamers :))

Wow, 1 MW surpasses a lot (most?) of lighting based superhero/supervillains (def the shitty ones like Vader, but also orders of magnitude from TWs in Thors sparklers?).

This is a totally normal thought to have whilst charging up your car, shut up.

Grow up (enough) and adjusting your pp becomes a chore.

Imagine bombing the shit out of a country with the GDP of that aircraft carrier upkeep.