Title is complete clickbait. Conflating GDP and market cap is nonsensical

Edit: another article comparing apple revenue to country GDP puts it 41st if it were a country which is still massive and makes a little more sense as a metric https://www.androidauthority.com/apple-revenue-vs-country-gdp-3412922/

And it’s only been somewhat successful. Most things become out of date after a while and eventually stop working for one reason or another

To add to the other comment, package managers keep a local copy of the list of available packages and the version. When you do a pacman -S xxx the package manager looks up xxx in the cache and downloads the package from whatever mirror youre using as well as any dependencies, looking them up in the same way from your cache. This works for a while even if theres a new update available because mirrors usually keep a few previous versions.

Once you do a pacman -Sy you update your cache to the latest one. If you then update xxx, it will update xxx and pull in any dependency updates required, but any other packages that depended on the same packages dont get updated, leaving you in a partially upgraded state.

Why is mint even recommended to new users at this point. Cinnamon is nowhere near Gnome or Plasma and both of these provide much simpler and more unified experience in things like settings

Is it still gonna be super slow because you can’t reclock or is that fixed now?

Its actually pretty important that some normal traffic does flow through tor. If you dont mind the speed then its perfectly okay* to do all your web browsing through tor

*there are some caveats here but its not about the network really