Lemmy.world and piefed.social are two different instances (servers) run by different people. They also run different software (Lemmy and Piefed respectively) which speaks the same protocol and can talk to each other (and other instances as well).

If you look at the same community e.g. [email protected] under each instance the content should be the same: the protocol should ensure that. The interface, the way it is presented to you, might be different, mostly decided by the software (Lemmy or Piefed, or any reader client you use).

It is also possible some posts or replies made it to one instance but not the other, perhaps due to technical problems, or policy (one instance’s admin might decide to not federate with another), but you should not encounter it very often (but it certainly happens).

People choose one instance over another for different reasons. Perhaps they like one software’s interface better than another. Perhaps they feel one server is faster and more responsive than another. Perhaps they would like to subscribe to a community which is blocked by certain instances. Fortunately there is nothing to stop somebody from signing up at multiple instances, so one can just try each out and find out which one is suitable for them.

So, mission accomplished?

I think they just learned that capitulating to the bully only brings more bullying, not to mention pissing off your customers in the process.

I wonder if they do it on phones as well. Not everyone has a 256GB+ device, and 4GB would be a significant chunk on even that.

Refresh should be handled by the hardware and should not need OS support once the video mode is set. This sounds like they added support for decoding higher refresh rates reported by monitors in their EDID so that those video modes can show up and be selected by users.

Unbuffered ECC DIMMs can be used as-is even on PCs not supporting ECC

Registered DIMMs can be unsoldered and the RAM chips reused in a pinch converting them to unbuffered DIMMs I suppose?

But reports of manufacturing capacity being moved to HBM will not benefit consumers if the bubble bursts.