Not even an exaggeration, I just dug out my old laptop that I bought in 2012 to check, 16Gb it’s got.
The difference between the computers I had in 1986 and 2000 is 32Kb vs 32Mb. I demand my rightful 16Tb of RAM
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I am really tired. As an elder millennial I was promised endless progress. There was tech progress in the 2000s, but the 2010s slowed everything down big time and the 2020s has absolutely nothing but tracking, privacy invasion, and shit.
Well, it was marketed to you, but never promised. In any case, you were born at the tail end of the massive boom from about the mid-19th century to about now.
It's ending. Can you figure out why? Hint #1: it's not Russia, China, Iran, or even Israel.
It's the laws of physics. Dennard scaling is dead, unless someone discovers new, even smaller atoms and a way of disabling quantum tunnelling.
It's also the fact that faster speeds are unnecessary and nobody wants to pay more for them, so electronics companies have focused on efficiency/reducing power draw instead (which, incidentally, let's you run your computer faster anyway).
I get it. I really do. But that's not the point. It is the endless enshittification of everything that I am most concerned with. Stagnation in general I can deal with, but having everything be a more effective spy tool is something else.
Like take smart phones for example. My first real smart phone I got in 2015. You could say I actually got one in 2013, but for some reason that phone could not connect to the internet easily, so it was mostly just a phone with some nice apps I could install and also be an MP3/MP4 player. But while performance wise the phones I had since 2020 have been much better than those I still dont feel the slightest difference... and since I rarely receive real calls anymore I can probably get away with just leaving my phone at home most of the time which is probably for the best given it is effectively a anklemonitor most of the time. I can take my older 2013 phone that no longer works for telemetry if I want music and I can wear a wristwatch (a Casio ripoff, no joke. Those haven't changed in 30+ years) to tell the time.
I can navigate in the old school way of just looking up before hand where I want to go and memorize it or write it down and pay attention to road signs.
On the other hand, maybe it's time to optimize and unbloat the software a little. It doesn't make sense that a notepad takes 1 GB and the mouse driver takes 2...
That was my shower thought this morning. Maybe some good will come of these circumstances in the form of optimization.
Narrator: Haha, no.
Cloud based drivers, cloud based BIOS and ram leasing programs 🙃
No its cool, its more than enough to use as a thin client for your new AI driven subscription based cloud PC!
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All these problems would be over in 1 week if only it sent microsoft stock back to 2015 also
AI doing what it does best and ruining everything.
I hate this timeline.
I do think this is a bit bigger than AI.
A problem we've been running up against for a while is that the US economy, maybe the world-wide technology sector in general, has run out of things to innovate. It's an empty mine. This is part of the reason they want AI to be a thing so badly, it is the only thing propping up the GDP at this point, and it's barely doing that.
[Edit] Sorry, the point being: if it wasn't AI, it would've been VR or Bitcoin or some other half-baked idea. We are headed for a cliff at the moment.
There's always something to innovate, you just get diminishing returns. The problem is that sooner or later, the returns diminish below the profit rate of banditry and rent-seeking.
Also, there's plenty of wildly profitable innovation, but so much of it isn't politically feasible because it will hurt the profits of existing rich people whose permission you need to upend the status quo. Usually this isn't a conspiracy so much as the alternative being so completely incomprehensible in the current paradigm that it's just written off as crazy and a terrible idea.
Capitalism breeds innovation Look inside
New ways for the wealthy to abuse common people
People being forced to run windows 11 with 8gb ram is going to be hilarious.
Holy shit, will AI cause the Linux renaissance?
It's already doing it. Steam data showed a 100% increase in Linux clients after a "one too many" Windows updates fucked something up last year.
Note: it's still hovering around the margin of error, but it's strengthening. I think it went from 1.5% to 3%.
It's 5% now
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You guys are really ungrateful. Without AI, how could the White House and the far-right all over the world create propaganda for social media? /s
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