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  • Check out Apple refurbished if you haven’t already. I almost exclusively buy Apple computers this way. You get basically a brand new device with a warranty and a nice discount because some of the innards were used. The exterior and battery is brand new so you would never know the difference. Looks like there’s a few MacBook Airs on there within your price range and even a couple Mac mini’s for less if desktop would suffice.

    https://www.apple.com/shop/refurbished/mac

    Edit to add: Anything with the “M-” chips should be supported for a while. M3 and M2 would likely be the safest though it seems like the first gen M1 is still well supported. If 16GB ram is available and affordable enough, I’d snag that. 8GB is just bare minimum nowadays but I have heard and apple claim that 8GB on their M-series laptops is akin to 12-16GB on other devices. Could be hogwash (I haven’t used any of the M laptops), but just wanted to throw that out there.





  • It’s not bad. The biggest downside is just that it isn’t that big so I’ve only found a couple channels on there that I’m interested in so far. I decided to give it a shot because I really hate ads, so even just having a couple channels I liked (like neo and Mustard) ad-free was worth giving it a shot. I used a creator link to sign up at a discount which also made the price a more palatable $30 for a year: https://nebula.tv/neo

    I assume you can replace the last part of that URL with a different channel’s slug to support that channel





  • mkwarmantoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldHe doesn't know
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    if an IQ of 100 is average, and you had an IQ of 100, you could say that you’re smarter than 50% of people, right? Let’s call those people (the ones you’re smarter than) group A. It also means that you’re in a group “top 50% of smart people”, which is just all the people smarter than those in group A. We’ll call it group B. Now, let’s say your IQ is 79. That means that now you’re only smarter than 8.1% (based on the picture) of people. Group A is much smaller because there are far fewer people stupid enough to be stupider than you. On the other hand, you’re in group B, which consists of the 91.9% of people who are smarter than group A; I.e. almost everyone.

    Of course, it’s important to remember that IQ tests are not considered by everyone to be fair assessments of real intelligence, but hopefully the example above helps explain what the statistics in the post actually mean.