The interview is from 2007. Interesting points of identity and nation.

Nevertheless a recommendation. The Zapatistas and Rojava are the most successful real world projects of non authoritarian socialism around.

It’s been like that that since I can remember. Upgrading can extend the lifespan by a few years, but often it’s a good idea to replace the whole system.

It depends on a lot of factors of course. If you buy a midrange machine now, you can upgrade it in five years to a high end machine from today, then five years ago.

Rarely do you get to take advantage of technology shifts like hard drives to SSD. A couple of years ago, adding more RAM and an SSD made machines usable, that had these bottlenecks. Still the best thing you can do to an old laptop or desktop.

Over the last decade performance hasn’t improved that much for most typical use cases. An i7 from ten years ago with 16 GB RAM and a 1 TB SSD, and a NVIDIA GTX 1080 is still a decent computer today.

What makes PCs great is that you’re more flexible regarding how you configure your machine. Adding more storage, more ports, extension cards, optical drives inside your machine etc. is just nice.

With a laptop you end up with crappy hubs and lots of cables.

Estonia is a place that has the mindset and people to actually do this successfully.

Skeumorphism is great, when used sensibly. It can give so much charm and warmth. It also gives clues on what an application is for and helps differentiate between them. Buttons looking like actual buttons is something I miss dearly.

Great that you found the solution. :)

Deleting local timemachine backup helps. In the terminal tmutil -thinlocalsnaphots or something similar is the command.

Also use the Finder

• turn on calculate all sizes for folders
• turn on show invisible files (might need tinkerttool for that)
• open Macintosh HD in list view, sort by size

Then investigate and delete.