I dunno who told you the Wii U was 720p-only. Mine ran at 1080p all day, every day - albeit some games used upscaling to reduce the graphical workload.

Nixon died in 1994, so there’s that.

I’m not talking about the merits or otherwise of “unified memory”, I’m pointing out that because Apple’s RAM is physically integrated into the CPU, it can provide more memory bandwidth than regular DDR5 DIMMs.

The LPDDR4X RAM in the Raspberry Pi isn’t QUITE the same as the on-die stuff in the M3 processor.

With Apple’s chips the RAM is all on the CPU die so both CPU and GPU get the performance benefit. With Intel’s, none of it is.

Apple’s RAM isn’t as cheap as you might think, because it’s all built directly onto the CPU die. That’s part of what makes its computers so fast.

It’s a shame we can’t downvote posts lower than zero.

That was my immediate guess, but Covid blew up in March, and the Reddit graph doesn’t go crazy until a few months later. It is hard to see what else could possibly explain it though; I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s just an error in the axis labelling or something.

What the hell happened in the second half of 2020?

Do you think Amazon gets its goods for free?

While it’s true that the imbeciles in our (UK) government have tried to implicitly outlaw E2EE, there are no restrictions on VPNs here.

Then buy something physical – there are literally millions upon millions of products he can spend the credit on.

They gave him regular Amazon credit, so he can spend it on physical goods if he likes.

It’s Amazon, dude. You may not like their business practices but it’s a fair bet they’re going to have something you want at a decent price.

You’re saying you can’t buy to own anything… at Amazon?

They gave the guy £10.99 in credit for a £5.99 film, so they’re probably taking some sort of loss.

forced cloud spyware which at this point is the entire OS now

I mean, apart from…

Google doesn’t track everything. The browser determines your interests locally; the only information shared with Google (and advertisers) is which broad topics you’ve recently shown an interest in.

i have parties

I read this article from top to bottom and didn’t find a clear explanation of why you should disable this feature.