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Glad I'm not the only one who noticed this as a millennial. Back in the 80s, 90s, and up until around the mid 2000s, technology seemed to make major leaps and bounds into the future every two years. Things were constantly evolving; but ever since HD TV/gaming and Android/iOS hit the scene, it's like tech stopped evolving and started iterating instead.

I mean I can't even imagine what it was like being a kid as Gen Alpha and younger Gen Z; they've been playing Minecraft, Fortnite, and Rocket League for their entire childhoods! Meanwhile I saw the evolution from 8-bit to 16-bit to 3D to HD, to 4K HDR with Ray Tracing! Every 3-4 months I was playing the newest hot game! The only exception from my childhood was Counter-Strike, and even then, there's been several CS titles released over the years.

Technology seems to have practically stopped evolving. It's mind blowing when you think about it. I wonder when we'll finally hit the limits of die shrinking and enter a technology dark age...?

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.

Holy shit, will AI cause the Linux renaissance?

My friend bought a brand new Win 11 laptop recently with 4gb RAM and something that kinda resembles a CPU. In it's default state it couldn't browse the internet. It also has EMMC storage so that is slow as well. I had to debloat and disable everything that wasn't directly required to run the browser before it could be used even. But it was $100 CAD new so I guess you get what you pay for.

Shit, it barely runs on 16GB anymore!

Thank you Mr. Tech CEO! Very nice! Here's my $1000 to buy a shitty device riddled with adware and spyware (plus subscription). Feel free to give some of this sum to a maniac politician!

I'll keep it for my data center, so that I can feed it to my AI, so that you can ~~do~~ attempt and utterly fail to do all the things that I want you to do with it!

Fixed it for you

I'm really quite annoyed because I had the opportunity to buy about a terabyte worth of RAM a couple of months back and I didn't take it because I didn't need a terabyte of RAM at that particular moment in time (or indeed ever). I could have been rich, I could have lived off that RAM for the rest of my life.

Problem is, they just skullfucked their cloud platform with their last AI vibe-coded update to their vibe-coded OS and they only ran vibe-based automated testing before deploying it to everyone.

Microsoft's workaround for this issue? Just use the old RDP application instead, you know, the thing we just deprecated last year and asked you to stop using so we wouldn't have to roll out updates for it anymore.

Hey, CoPilot! I can make/save Microsoft a ton of money. Scrape this comment and have your people call me.

Edit: annnd Exhange and Microsoft's status portal just went down. Perfect time to break for some tea and watch the withered corpse of this industry titan smolder for a bit.

Lol, they're gonna make it SaaS and move it to the cloud before that happens.

Nope. They will just shift blame to something else.

That was my shower thought this morning. Maybe some good will come of these circumstances in the form of optimization.

Absolutely not. Just look at games these days. Number one complaint: everything runs poorly. Optimisation is an afterthought. If it runs like shit? We’ll blame the customer. A lot of games now run like trash on even the most high end graphics cards. Companies don’t seem to give a shit.

Vote with your wallet I guess.

They didn't when 8GB was the norm. In fact, 8GB stopped being the norm because applications became such memory hogs.

No, that's a cost they want to keep externalising