Bingo the OS is designed to utilize any available ram, and that availability drops depending on what other apps you have running in the background. It also knows to suspend apps that are not using any memory so it can’t pull from the pool.

yep.

Its more the media is making it all up to make it seem like its a thing.

All these companies cutting jobs have hundreds of thousands of employees. Its literally like 2-3% attrition rates which is well below national average and typical this time of year because this is when any companies whose fiscal years match the calendar year are giving out performance reviews.

Likewise the "large" numbers of tech jobs cut are not being reflected in monthly unemployment numbers which not only continue to be low, but actually are getting lower as of last month... and these are not the type of employees who run out and get Christmas jobs at the mall here...

The only outliers is Twitter because of Musks fuckery... and Salesforce because their CEO fucked up royally with hiring over COVID. Outside of that I would not bat an eye at even 5-6k job loss in the tech industry... since thats only slightly higher than the normal yearly 2-3k.

Eventually but not any time soon. Maybe in a year or two... but at the same time M chip based MacOS is ARM... and I would not be shocked if someone figured out a way to make other manufactures ARM based architecture run MacOS not unlike how people figured out how to get OS X to continue working on x86 chips long after apple moved to x64 and removed any of the instruction set to allow it to work.

honestly though probably not much of a market to it other than for some hardware/software hackers to say they could and put it on their resume.

This is literally the only reason they are still Intel on the pro... way too much pro level apps that require the Intel chip and are not compiled for ARM.

because they can with M chip. The ARM chips are significantly more efficient with memory over Intel chips. Its still stupid, but you would be surprised at how fictional 8 gigs is with a M1 vs 8 gigs with a intel chip.

To be fair with it though, even base model laptops from Dell and HP are still rolling with 8 gigs or even less.

Not likely... Maybe i5 or i7 but certainly not a i9, and certainly not in that form factor.

They are literally on 3% of all laptops sold... try to use facts teenager.

At one time they were 10% of all laptops sold, LAST DECADE. They have not experienced that high since 2013 because like 3D displays they are a freaking fad.

Touchscreens have not died because they keep trying to force it down as a high end thing.

But the fact that they are on a VERY slim fraction of computers sold tells you its a niche product with no traction.

Not only do I believe it, the market bears it out in the fact they still, to this day, have never taken off.

I highly doubt it. They have tested it internally as far back as the original iBook... but reality is touchscreen computers SUCK. The last thing I want to do is leave my fingerprints all over a screen or keep clicking on things in a awkward hand angle. Its why the market for them is nearly non-existant.

Not even remotely accurate. During the 2007 recession the tech market was largely untouched and actually hiring workers. It was the financial, auto, and housing markets hardest hit.

Literally the only reason I am even looking at VR is for flight sims, where I would want to block out my surroundings. Outside of that none of the actual VR games interest me.

Same, in the last year I have had 3 raises and a promotion.

I always find it ironic how people bitch and moan about how hard it is to repair Apple products... yet they probably never touched any of the models we USED to repair in the 90's or early 2000's.

70+ screws in a iBook G4 anyone?

Hell even my iPhone 6s was easier to replace the lightning port than the iPhone 3s screen.

Apples come a long way on making things repairable. Its just you are not buying these parts at your local electronics store which is the complaint... but honestly based on the quality of many of those old 3s screens from China I WOULDNT WANT TO EITHER... they were absolutely trash and to get a Apple equivalent you were maybe saving 10-20 bucks at most.

Its also because the layoffs during the recession hit the banking, auto, and housing industry the hardest and NOT the tech industry.

Hell I actually got a job during the recession and a 45% raise to boot, and we were still hiring for positions well after I joined for the next year or two before hiring slowed a bit.

Not to mention currently we STILL have not seen actual recession style layoffs in the tech industry... Meta, Google and others shed some extra weight... some of which was NOT tech related but tech adjacent being lumped in. Twitter legitimately doesn't count in this scenario because Twitters clusterfuck is not industry related but Musk related.

Of course it is, layoffs always are. But headlines like this are meant to scare EVERYONE into thinking its going to happen to them and fuck with the economy.

Its economic manipulation of the highest order with no evidence behind it.

Scary headline is scary. The Great Recession barely touched the tech sector. A wet fart would result in more layoffs which is what it’s trying to portray.

Yeah there have been some at big companies, but companies like mine STILL can’t get people into positions in development, security, and sys admin spots.

Wyze is quite a bit different, as you dont even have to use the cloud for them. Even their security system has the ability to use SD cards for storage of video and events though you lose the whole offsite backup aspect and now with the new intruder protection aspect, you lose the ability for them to flag intruders even before they access your house.

They have had 3 CVEs that I know of recently, and all have been patched as they patch their firmware SUPER quick (almost too quick, i have had firmware patches hit days after I applied one). So they seem to take the whole security aspect somewhat seriously and are willing to patch constantly and continue to update firmware even on older products.

That said I purposely am not using their inside cameras and only their outdoor ones. I dont honestly care what people see of me outside the house because its nothing my neighbors dont already see anyway, I DO care if people see what is going on with my kids and my family inside the house though.

That deals why we are dropping VMWares Carbon Black. I know people who used Symantec after they were acquired and it was a unmitigated disaster.

absolutely agree.

It wont survive this. Anyone who is capable is capable elsewhere without Musks drama.

The tech bros who want the prestige of working with Musk and dont get that its an albatross now depending on the years you worked there will.

Those who have visas will be forced to.

Those who did not overextend themselves and are happy taking a lower 6 fig tech job like I have, which may not be prestigious but still pays the bills would steer FAR clear of them.

Why ANYONE would think Facebook/META would be the company to do something like this properly vs non-profit science and research groups whose entire job it is to do this PROPERLY.

The sheer arrogance of the Tech Bros on full display thinking they read the cliff notes of Stephen Hawking's History of Time and they know enough to create something like this