Haven't heard much about it in a while. My boss at work keeps telling us to use AI to do things AI isn't capable of doing without so many errors it takes more time to review the AI output than to just do it myself.
I noticed a lot of AI datacenters that were talked about mostly all stalled.
What's the current situation on AI?
yep, everything now will just be "cloud based", you will basically have a virtual desktop which will interface with a data center, always online, always connected, all your information tracked/recorded/ and sold
That seems to be the case, especially since it seems like towers are becoming much harder to find these days. I tend to feel antsy looking at all-in-ones (as they are sometimes called).
buy a couple raspberry pis to hide under your matress. they are good enough to bully minorities on the socials!
You aren't wrong about allinones but I don't really get what you mean about it being hard to find towers, there are plenty available if you build your own pc, buy used, buy high end, or if you don't care too much about graphics expandability and cooling there should still be some micro-ATX or ITX prebuilds since those are generally the preferred configuration for business computers
I don't know, maybe it's just that when I last went to the PC store (This was at the tail end of 2024, if you are curious), I had noted that there weren't as many towers as their used to be and all-in-ones seemed more common. I did pick up an Acer Nitro since it seemed like a good purchase at the time.
I suppose that judging by your word that new towers are mostly custom built and bought over the internet, they seem to now be the domain of more hardcore PC users.
What kind of a "PC store" did you go to? The majority of places you'd traditionally buy PCs from in person have a tiny selection of low end consumer slop that's marketed towards people who are entirely technologically illterate and just wants something that works and can use email.
There is absolutely no reason to buy something like a computer from a brick and mortar store, all the information you care about are hard measurements which are easier to find online and you'd have far more options which is part of why the home computer sections in brick and mortar stores is catered to people who don't care and just want the simplest solution. There should still be plenty of low end micro/mini towers in the online sphere as well