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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Why would I give you more RAM to do all the things you want with it?
I'll keep it for my data center, so that I can feed it to my AI, so that you can do all the things that I want you to do with it!
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
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.
I have an R710 collecting dust in the basement. When it was alive, I used to have one VM for each service I used. While having multiple VMs is useful, containers has greatly reduced the amount of RAM I need.
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.
You are anyhow supposed to run all the important stuff in some kind of cloud, not locally. That exactly feeds into their plan.
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 when a status portal goes down, you utterly failed as a tech company.
Well, to see the bright side: Perhaps this will force developers to at least think about optimizing their software...
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.
Hello $user,
Memoryleak™ 4.20 has minimum system requirements that includes 32Gb of memory.
Hope this helps
Go fuck yourself, Memoryleak™ support team
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Welcome to the future!
No its cool, its more than enough to use as a thin client for your new AI driven subscription based cloud PC!
/s
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.
All these problems would be over in 1 week if only it sent microsoft stock back to 2015 also
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.
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
AI doing what it does best and ruining everything.
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