People being forced to run windows 11 with 8gb ram is going to be hilarious.
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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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Shit, it barely runs on 16GB anymore!
shit it barely runs ~~on 16GB anymore!~~
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.
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It will run okay... Unless you have an HDD. Good thing the AI bubble isnt blowing up SSD prices too.
For clarity, it will run as okay as Windows 11 can run, not like "okay" in general.
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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.
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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...?
Exactly. I haven't bought that many new games or even tried new games in a long ass time. I am still going through a lot of the Hitman (2016 series) since that game has soooooo much content. But the thing is, the game doesnt feel old. I have played newer games and they haven't changed much in my view.
Meanwhile look at our generation... I remember starting with a C64 (i was too young to do much with it though) and then getting a 386 and seeing technology advance at breakneck speeds. A game released in 1991 vs. 1994 had radical differences, and one in 1998 vs. 1994 even more. The 2000s were also rapid-fire advancement. Have you seen how the Medal of Honor games advanced? In 1999 vs. 2004 from the original one to Pacific Assault, and Oblivion in 2004 vs Skyrim in 2011 vs Morrowwind in 2002? Absolutely blowing everyone's minds away in how much change happened?
I get that we are hitting a tech wall, I really do. But the enshittification is ridicules. Holy fuck... again... why internet and cloud for everything? They are literally destroying home computing in such a brazen manner and everyone on top is 'that's just how it is and how it should be'. It isn't an unseen hand. It is as obvious as a hammer smashing your head in.
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
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.
Same man. Got an old R730 with like 16 slots that I could fill to the brim, but I was like "nah it's not like I need that much".
Then I realized how much Linux caching was doing when I did fill it up with only a handful of contsiners and VMs.
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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.
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Capitalism breeds innovation Look inside
New ways for the wealthy to abuse common people
No its cool, its more than enough to use as a thin client for your new AI driven subscription based cloud PC!
/s
Will there be a chance that companies will optimize their applications perhaps?
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.
I realized recently that I expect pretty much everything purchased lately to break within months, no matter what it is. Buy a brand new shirt? It’ll have a thread unraveling on the first day you wear it. Buy a tray table? It’ll collapse after a few uses. I was gifted a tumbler for Christmas and the lid is already cracked. Everything is made so cheaply that nothing lasts anymore.
I think about how, generations ago, things were built solid. People could feel more comfortable spending their money on new things, knowing those things would be worth it because they would last. Today, it’s a shitshow. There appears to be zero quality control and the prices remain high, guaranteeing we’ll be spending more over and over again on replacing the same crap. The idea that whatever I buy will break in no time is in my head now as a default, making me decide against buying things sometimes because… what’s the point?
Thats because last quarter profits were up 10% and now this quarter they MUST be up 11% or the company is a complete failure and all the shareholders will go elsewhere. But don't cut too much, the following quarter it better be up 12%!
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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
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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.
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HAHAHAHAHAHA when can I finally replace my thinkpad. It's seriously getting old, even with linux
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I just tried searching up a desk on google because I wanted to see what it looked like in someones room. Instead all I got was 100% links to wayfair for pages. I kept scrolling and it was all wayfair links. I remember when I would search for something and it was links to shit people posted, not businesses.
fun fact, Duckduckgo allows you to block urls from appearing again
I have a 2011 MacBook pro with 16GB RAM, but the screen is dead. Time to see if I can remember the magic key combination to get past the BIOS screen so the external monitor can work to install some flavor of headless linux
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