Windows 11 can run on 4GB. That’s the minimum for the listed requirements, and the other day, I saw Best Buy selling a 4GB model, and I see some systems for sale online. I would imagine that it’s not ideal.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-11-specifications

Minimum system requirements for Copilot+ PCs

RAM: 16 GB DDR5/LPDDR5

I think that OpenAI has probably kind of bashed a hole in the bottom of Microsoft’s boat on the local AI stuff, if 8GB is going to be midrange.

mid-range laptops to 8GB

My not-terribly-new phone has 12GB of memory, and I’m pretty sure that Android is a lot lighter on memory than the Windows 11 that I suspect a lot of these are going to be running.

• Frequently, you get extreme CCP shills falsely accusing you of Sinophobia, and simultaneously some are actually some closeted Sinophobes.

Let me guess. You went to one of the .ml instances and got accused of being “Orientalist” after saying something that someone politically disagreed with?

Yeah, I still don’t completely understand that crowd. I don’t think that they’re actually shilling, because then they wouldn’t be advocating for North Korea. But there are a lot of people there who are clearly not interested in good-faith discussion. I just decided that it’s not worth dealing with them very early on.

The !MeanwhileOnGrad@sh.itjust.works crowd is determined to keep plunging in, though.

I knew what this was before even clicking on it. :-)

• !unix_surrealism@lemmy.sdf.org is VERY unique both in content and in what gets posted.
• Almost everyone running Linux (or at least it seems like it 😉)

I believe that the unix_surrealism guy is a BSD person.

My outsider impression is that this is just a long-standing hard-left tradition in general. Not really specific to anything on the Fediverse.

I remember going through the list of UK socialist and/or communist political parties. Lots of tiny, fragmented groups, many of which had split off from others over various disagreements.

For ANC, Sony’s WH-1000XM6. I’ve had people complain that I occasionally sound muffled when using it as a headset, though. The only other circumaural ANC headphones I’ve used are Sennheiser Momentum 4s, which have a lot of problems and I wasn’t happy with for other reasons. No complaints about being muffled, though. Other than that, all my ANC experiences have been on various earbuds, not headphones.

For non-ANC, just a passive closed-back circumaural, my favorite so far is a Beyerdynamic DT 770. It’s an old design, first got one back maybe in 2000, but it’s been comfortable and durable, and has decent passive isolation. I picked up another pair a year or two back, and that’s what I typically use at home, where I don’t need ANC, if I’m seated at my computer. It doesn’t have a detachable cord, but that’s really the only thing I’d complain about.

Can’t exactly use the DT 770 as an example of technology advancing, though, given context of the discussion here. :-)

I can see that. I don’t like how they make the music sound though and much prefer open room speakers or open back headphones.

I get that and I do have some open back headphones too. That’s fine for a quiet environment. But if you’re wanting to listen to something in a noisy environment, your options are basically some form of isolation or trying to drown out everything else.

Biometrics are irrevocable. If you’re worried about stolen personal data, they are not what I would be moving to.

You might as well follow Ronald McDonald himself on X.com.

Apparently, Ronald McDonald has mostly been phased out of the McDonalds brand over the past decade.

On the upside, anchovies on pizza got a lot more acceptable. I’ve had some more-mild anchovy pizzas that I’ve really liked, and can generally at least tolerate them. As a kid, I could never understand how adults could manage them.

I’m pretty impressed with where active noise cancellation on headphones has gotten.

Duck Duck Go’s AI suggestion is:

To enable the double space period feature on the Samsung keyboard, go to Settings > General Management > Language and input > On-screen keyboard > Samsung Keyboard > Smart typing, and ensure that the “Auto spacing” option is turned on. If the feature is not working, you may need to reset the keyboard settings to default or clear the keyboard’s cache.

EDIT: This (presumably) human, about older versions of the Galaxy:

https://www.techbone.net/samsung/user-manual/auto-punctuate

Tap on Settings

Tap on General management

Tap on Samsung Keyboard settings

Tap on More typing options

Enable or disable Double tap space bar to add period

I believe that YouTube pays video creators better than other websites do textual content creators.

If this is Android, you might investigate Settings->Disolay & brightness->Font and try sliding the Font size slider there.

DDR4 RAM is presently cheaper than DDR5, but it has also increased dramatically in price recently.

https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/

DDR4:

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/ed889201-f9e6-46ec-81a8-832f6bfc63ed.jpeg

DDR5:

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/35d03746-8d9c-443f-808f-8c88f2914b73.jpeg

I’ve never heard of OP’s convention. But if I had to guess, it’s this:

• It’s slow to input text on an onscreen keyboard compared to a physical one.

• Mobile vendors try to reduce the number of keystrokes via predictive text and other tweaks in their onscreen keyboard software.

• One common optimization (which I do not like and have off) is to try to reduce the effort to terminate a a sentence.

• On iOS’s keyboard, tapping space twice inserts a period, then space. This is an easy action to perform.

• I would assume that many iOS users are thus trained to only terminate sentences this way, and not to explicitly use periods. A trailing period requires extra effort and an unusual keystroke.

• As a result, iOS users tend not to put in the extra effort, and so their sentences tend not to have a trailing period if not followed by a subsequent sentence.

• For these users, the norm then becomes to omit a period on the final sentence, and so explicitly adding it looks like the user has gone out of their way to specially add punctuation. The trailing period then acquires semantic value, meaning.

I expect that the whole thing stemmed from some random engineer at Apple just banging away trying to get average typing speed up, not spending a lot of time thinking about any linguistic or social impact.

It could also be that Microsoft or Google do that by default — but I don’t use their default onscreen keyboards, and the descriptions I can find online of their default behavior sounds like they don’t.

Different punctuation mark, though it’s also a variant on the question mark.