So glad the idiotic decisions Microsoft makes doesn’t effect my computer. And I’m excited for the rest of the population to make the shift to Linux, at least on their personal computers.
It doesn’t have to be like this, you too can be immune
I have Zorin os on my main laptop and actively migrating my main desktop. Will try to get my kids desktop to Zorin too, his was my test subject and it crashed and burned. Everyday I see more and more issues and performance drops with client computers on win11. One or two I’d chalk up to user errors, but now brand new devices I deploy with 32gb of ram struggling to connect to and RDP connection. Fuck windows 11 and all the AI horseshit.
That’s great parenting. My daughter had only known Linux until she started 7th grade this year and got a school windows laptop. She hates that thing with passion. I’m so proud of her 😍
Little guy. :( I feel you, buddy.
You will own nothing and you will be happy. Bezos already laid the ground for this when he mused about everything living in the cloud a while ago. And where things are going with hardware prices, they think they can make it happen sooner rather than later, is my guess.
There is a certain kind of boomer who ended up retiring to a little hobby farm with a couple chickens and maybe a pig or a few sheep…
We are all going to end up with hobby server farms, with a localized coy of Wikipedia backed up, and a file and image server, maybe some email…
Already working on it. Evergrowing collection of media of all sorts. But I’ve been working on that for decades by now.
My phone has more power, storage and ram than my 2008 gaming PC had.
My next phone will be a Linux one and if possible it’ll also be my “main PC”, maybe it won’t work that well but today my main PC is a 6500T and it’s enough for me so my hopes are a bit up :-)
I like to reimagine Microsoft as a company that has zero value. Oh wait, they realised that by themselves!
That’s fucking nuts because any device that can connect to a cloud is powerful enough to run an operating system (they will probably not give user access to the non-volatile memory). Just not the bloated AI spyware box that they want.
I work in embedded, and you would be surprised how much work a CPU under 100mhz can do when there isn’t an operating system/browser in the way. We need to get back to basics in the software industry. We’ve been going down the wrong road for a looooong time, and the AI bubble is only accelerating us in that wrong direction.
you would be surprised how much work a CPU under 100mhz can do when there isn’t an operating system/browser in the way
Latest cool thing I saw : Doom on my earbuds https://doombuds.com/ which IMHO demonstrate greatly how much more powerful so many tiny things around us really are.
Yup. The problem was never the hardware. It’s the stack. We’re all carrying supercomputers in our pockets now.
Feels like so many (dare I say most) programmers don’t even understand the work that the OS does to make the C programming environment as nice as it currently is, let alone a 200 line TODO app that uses 6GB of RAM.
For a while there it look like Microsoft was changing from the EEE company of the 90s. They couldn’t pretend they knew what they were doing for very long though and here we are. They evolved from evil and stupid to just stupid.
They’re still evil. It’s more like evil and stupid to evil and incompetent
3 arm Tux, nice!
Um…if the chair is spinning…why isn’t the coffee surface tilted? 🙃
Because AIs don’t understand physics. Or anatomy, given that Tux has three flippers here. (Nor do the upper swooshes make visual sense.)
Neither do the lower ones. The wheels of an office chair typically don’t move when the seat spins around.
The upper swooshes make it look wobbly
Why did you need a shitty AI image for this?
Fuck off
Your friend has a growth on its abdomen. I’d have a doctor look at it.
I don’t use Windows and would like to also say AI slop was completely unnecessary here. (and everywhere else)
I prefer to use Windows 10 and Linux. What about using old versions of Microsoft Office?
I’m happy to sere M$ ruin themselves further.
Microsoft has lost the ball a long time ago
Dropped the plot a ways back, too
Dropped it then lost it.
I could not possibly care less.
They are preparing for a world where we don’t own things and get free use of the things they choose for us to use, when they want us to use them. Act now, before it’s too late. Death by a thousand cuts, so goes society.
I don’t understand, we had this in the 90’s and it didn’t work then. No company or user wanted their whole desktop to be offsite.
It’s not about what the user wants. It’s about what will make the most profit for Microsoft
Much more like a stream of shit.
I hate microslop so fucking much. This whole idea of only the elite monopolies owning all computer power and renting out to us is an affront to humanity.
