I meant it from the POV of 2021, so “wins again in 24”

Elon Musk was a trendsetter!

In 2024, everything was already laid out for everybody to see clear as day - Trump1.0, MAGA’s behavior since 2021, Project 2025…

BTW, in 2016, both Mary Trump and Tony Schwartz predicted Jan 6 21: “If he loses the next election, he won’t go willingly.”

Ever since Jan 6 21 it’s been crystal clear where this goes if he wins again.

You nailed it, except “huge generalization” is actually being generous. The article is simply wrong. The author is speaking esoteric technobabble:

The upgrade death spiral (…) happens because upgrading one component of your computer can unbalance the system.

It’s the sort of argument a husband might give his not tech savvy wife when she asks why he repeatedly needs to spend so much $$$ on something only he uses.

I think FOMO says it pretty well, or simply consumerism.

Now that hardware is getting more expensive again, this is really sending the wrong message.

And OP keeps doubling & tripling down despite basically every comment disagreeing. I think they wrote that article.

Aye.

And OP is doubling down.

Not sure what “future proof” means, but my PC still has its original case from Windows Vista times, has seen 2 mobo replacements, 1 PSU replacement, and I don’t even know how many hard drive / SSD additions / swaps. RAM extensions too. Used to have a GPU but after the 2nd mobo/CPU replacement I dropped it.

Different screens, keyboards, and mice.

None of this would have easily been possible on a laptop.

In a world where hardware is getting more expensive again you are really sending the wrong message here.

Not to speak of environmental impact & consumerism.

CPUs are the same with real performance needed a new chipset and motherboard. At that point you are replacing the whole system.

I find the quoted statement untrue. You still have all peripherals, including the screen, the PSU, and the case.

You can replace components as and when it becomes necessary.

You can add up hard drives, instead of replacing a smaller one with a larger one.

Desktop mobos are usually more upgradeable with RAM than laptops.

There’s probably more arguments that speak against the gist of this article.

As soon as you leave English language wikipedia this happens fairly often. Not necessarily Russian, maybe adjacent. And not since yesterday! I noticed around Corona, and it’s been a problem for way longer. It’s relatively easy for 1 editor to slip through unnoticed if there isn’t enough eyeballs on the article, and hey they can write what their overlords tell them unchallenged.

Yes, it is.

Is the article anything beyond iOS advertisment?

Isn’t questioning an answer just asking another question?

If it swims like a duck…

forwarding can fail

how so?

i just connect to POP and get everything in bulk

That can also fail.

forwarding changes the original headers

if i forward spam my provider gets pissed

Both these things are fixable with standard mailing software.

PS: I also don’t see why this forwarding-or-fetching is necessary at all. It’s easy to maintain several email addresses on any device.

What the other commenter suggests is not better.

I also don’t see why this forwarding-or-fetching is necessary at all. It’s easy to maintain several email addresses on any device.

It’s not an all-or-nothing type situation.

like switching from Walmart to 15 other stores just to buy the same stuff

As the other commenter pointed out: you do that once. And if you do it properly, nobody will be sending anything to a gmail address you don’t use anymore.
Then you have 15 stores all around the same parking lot, to stick with your analogy.

And yes, it’s always a trade-off with convenience, but much less so than you make it sound.

BTW, above list sucks, there are much better lists of alternatives around. And articles that describe how to switch etc. etc.

Openstreetmap (OSM) is a much larger project than you seem to realize. At least OSMAnd is “theirs”, and there is many apps/sites/software that use OSM behind the scenes. E.g., all the official route planners of cities in my country.

And if you REALLY want to help, openstreetmap has very good tools for adding information, though you need to use the website for it since it can get quite complex which makes it a bit more cumbersome.

Every bit helps. Desktop apps exist. OSMAnd has editing built in.

On second thought you’re absolutely right. Report created.

edit: oh, this is YSK, I was thinking more about IT communities.

The normal process would be to tell these other accounts to send emails to your primary account. Why would you even authorize another software (or mail provider) to fetch them instead.

Filters are available (almost) everywhere.

edit: I also don’t see why this forwarding-or-fetching is necessary at all. It’s easy to maintain several email addresses on any device.

Thanks for pointing that out!
I had assumed one of the reasons the list feels so weak to me is because they didn’t want to add selfhosted alternatives.
But since that is not the case, the list is even weaker than I thought.

This is a strong list: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted