no RAM, no SSD and no GPU PCs. AI is taking us to the dark ages
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Wait until smartphone prices skyrocket. Shit's gonna be fun.
I've read a couple of days ago that they're already reducing the RAM of future smartphones, like 4GB for entry level phones.
there's a slim chance that could be a good thing. it would require Android to actually optimize their operating system. if Microsoft and Apple have to do the same, maybe just maybe we will see quality operating systems again.
a man can dream.
Bloat OS, bloat apps, bloat background spyware. Something has to give.
I already had a taste of this on my 32 GB home computer.
Me: "Hey this IDE is using 10 GB of ram and it's mostly a text editor and parser. This is ridiculous."
Engineer: "Memory is there to be used. You still have over 20 GB to dispose of."
Me: "My browser is using over 1 GB."
Engineer: "Memory is there to be used. You still have over 19 GB to dispose of."
Me running another memory expensive program: "This tool tells me I'm almost out of free memory."
Engineer: "Your computer is a few years old; just buy more ram."
I think the meme of Spidermans all pointing at each other is going to be real in the form of software vendors all telling us that we'd better pony up for more memory or stop using other software. Unfortunately corporations would sooner use a popular piece of garbage than an efficient program that does the job far better.
I love how I've never installed a game on my phone but it has like 20 games installed and new ones appear with every update.
I wish we had a government who gave a shit about us and made it a fucking crime to install anything on my device without my explicit permission. That includes any updates. If I say 'no updates' then that's it. Besides Windows, that would apply to Steam.
Sorry, that only works one way. When you get extra space, you fill that extra space up, but when your amount of space decreases, you become a hoarder.
You don't like your browser using 4gb of ram?!?!??
Pfft, it's perfectly reasonable for an app that amounts to a few buttons and text boxes and a couple background images to be a 40MB download and use 400MB of working RAM.
Buy used or buy new older versions. I'm betting the used laptop market will go through the roof, and older phones will go up in value.
Buying used has always been the way to go for phones IMHO. They churn out so many new versions every year that 3-4 year old higher end phones are still better than new mid range phones and MUCH cheaper.
You can usually get 2+ year old flagship phones (brand new) for 1/3rd to 1/4th the price.
Or do what I did and buy new and just use the same flip phone for 17 years straight. They only got me off that thing because they literally disabled the 3G network, it was still perfectly functional other than that.
Skyrocket AND run worse because they'll halve the RAM they normally came with.
That's a market that has needed to die for everyone's best interest.
We don't have an affordability problem, we have a spending problem. People buying the latest greatest phone non-stop is why nobody has money.
My current phone is a Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra. Before that was an S7. And the only reason I upgraded from the S7 is because the S7 screen developed a tiny crack and the OLEDs began to decay and fail, and the battery had gone long enough that it couldn't keep up without two charges a day. Plus it wasn't compatible with 5G. Also, the camera on the S20 Ultra was (and still is) extremely good, the S7 was trash.
In that case I had objective reasons for upgrading.
Ask someone who just bought the latest iPhone what objectively makes it better than last year's model and they'll just stare at you dimly and say 'it's better cuz number go up'.
Phone cameras were the only technology I really followed the progress of and even that has stagnated. Phone cameras consistently got better with every model for a decade to where they are now comparable with real cameras.
I got the S23 Ultra for its 10x zoom camera which was genuinely really cool and I have taken over a hundred professional-looking photos with it. Naturally with following releases they dropped it to a 5x camera with "Ai-pOWeReD 10x zoom" (it looks like shit) while raising the phone price. Meanwhile the main cameras on all phones have remained basically unchanged since 2020. Since realizing these companies have actually given up I just downgraded to a smaller phone and got a real camera.
Smartphones will be fine because a lot of the globalist plans hinge on everyone owning a personal tracking/surveillance device.