Mihai Popa

[Kaiser Bauch @KaiserBauch]

Romania’s 🇷🇴 economic statistics are, in general, incredibly weird. I have repeatedly taken Romania out of charts I was making because it just seemed so far out there.

1.) The Bucharest metro area comes out as one of the richest in Europe, richer per capita than Geneva or Copenhagen (in PPS). Its GDP grew by 33% in five years, roughly Shenzhen-level growth, while the regions surrounding Bucharest shrank by more than 5%.

2.) Labour productivity per employed person in ICT and in professional, scientific and technical services is, in nominal terms (!!!), on par with or even higher than in Germany, and it swings wildly from year to year.

3.) Romania has higher actual individual consumption per capita than Czechia or Slovenia, which are well ahead of it in GDP per capita. This is fuelled by a near-zero or even negative household saving rate, the largest budget deficit in the EU and a current account deficit of around 8% of GDP.

Depending on which statistic you pick, Romania looks either like an absolute rocket or like an economy on the verge of collapse. My guess is that a lot of this is measurement rather than reality: a huge shadow economy that has to be estimated, millions of emigrants making “per capita” figures shaky, tax regimes that reshuffle how work and income get reported, companies booking their output at Bucharest headquarters, and national PPPs flattering an expensive capital.

I should visit Bucharest.

[Cosmic Earth @_cosmicearth]

Night Sky on Mars as seen from NASA Curiosity Rover.

[Petrenko AndryiⒸ (Ukraine) @PetrenkoAndryi]

Уся нафта застрягла в Ормузькій протоці, а Трамп стверджує, що в усьому винна Україна і він давно переміг Іран.

[Mihai Popa @synco22]

@GoodUser2023 @Digi24_HD 🤣🤣🤣 Tot cu asta sunteți? Va sare acu de la pickup sau nu ați primit instrucțiuni noi?

[Mihai Popa @synco22]

Wow, much improvement, this should have been solved in Vista days(I use the browser for web search, I use windows search for my files/apps), also @microsoft, please fix the lag of the search result, so the list in search result don't switch in the last second, use keyboard keys.

[Tom Warren @tomwarren]

Microsoft is making some BIG changes to Windows Search. It's dropping the annoying ads, decluttering the UI, and prioritizing local results over web ones. Looks like some genuinely great changes 🙏 https://t.co/fBnMfcWz0A

[Mihai Popa @synco22]

I'm excited to share that I've joined eYou as an Early Believer.

In a landscape of noise, I'm betting on The Social Media You Can Trust. I have a few invite spots to help my network join the waitlist.

Check it out here: https://t.co/7MowBGS7nm
#eYou

[Mihai Popa @synco22]

@WindowsCentral If you switch from insider to normal and format the ssd, the bios won't boot the repair usb for a while, until the certificate is up to date

[Windows Latest @WindowsLatest]

Fact check: Microsoft is not releasing Windows 12 in 2026.

Microsoft is also not building a subscription-based version of Windows.

One publisher posted an AI-generated speculative piece, then other AI-driven sites scraped it, rewrote it, and published the same claim as “news.”

After that, users on X and Reddit started assuming it was real, even though in reality it’s just an AI hallucination.

Criticizing Microsoft as “Microslop” while spreading fake AI slop cannot go hand in hand!

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

🇲🇩Pro-Russian blogger gets brutally shut down on the streets of Chișinău

During a street interview on one of the central streets, a guy approached a passing woman and asked in Russian: “What’s the best folk song?”

“Long live and prosper Moldova, Transylvania, and Great Romania!” — the girl answered in the official language of her country.

The “Russian world” fails the language check once again 😅

[Windows Latest @WindowsLatest]

The state of popular Windows 11 apps and their RAM management is concerning, especially as RAM prices continue to rise.

1. Discord is always 1GB and even hits up to 4GB
2. WhatsApp is now a web app, not a native app, and RAM usage is frequently 1GB
3. Microsoft Teams, also a web app, uses 1GB+ RAM

Is it really that difficult to build native and resources-optimized apps for these companies?

[Mihai Popa @synco22]

@NorthFaceHiker Congratulations!! As an Windows insider I thank you for everything you have done so far. Quick question: do you have any ideea if Microsoft in planning to release a phone suitable OS? I have really love Windows Phone and I miss it L.

[Mihai Popa @synco22]

@stepfanie @jnnfir he lost he's focus for couple of years, maybe we'll see an different Elon for the next years

[Mihai Popa @synco22]

@iamann2489 La mine la nuntă a fost muzica retro în mare, puțin rock, și techno, a fost și populară pentru ca eu și soția suntem din zone diferite a țării așa ca a fost muzica populara din ambele zone. Dar fără manele.

[Mihai Popa @synco22]

@TuckerCarlson So many lies Calin says here, so much BS from him, it fits you @TuckerCarlson right up your ass. :D

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Russian missile strike on Kryvyi Rih.

14 dead, five of them children. Over 50 people injured. The numbers continue to increase.

📹: parents by the body of their son. Russia killed him.

[Mihai Popa @synco22]

@CostinMarge @Digi24_HD Eh, nu e statul român 100%brneficiarul, "doar" 51%. Tot e mai bine decât 0% cum ar fi fost dacă nu ar fi fost exploatat...

[Mihai Popa @synco22]

@_iamtolulope How? :))) was really easy to use

[Mihai Popa @synco22]

@Spotify any chance to extend Ai DJ to Romania? It's great in English, no need for Romanian voice :D

[Mihai Popa @synco22]

@elonmusk When is the next test flight ?

[Mihai Popa @synco22]

@Microsoft What happened to Microsoft Singularity?