Who is going to do the vibe-cleanup coding if it takes a decade or three for the tech to catch up to the hype?

There are consultants for that.

Yes, it's the same old song, but the AI bubble does it on an unprecedented scale in terms of energy use, environmental and societal impact, and the enormous amounts of money involved and the industry concentration in the hands of a few giant players.

That was an excellent, well thought-out article. Everyone should read it and not just rely on the summary on Slashdot.

Yes - that's the point. I needed to run Windows 11 because I use Windows specific apps. I also have 2 personal macbooks, have an employer provided macbook for my professional job and will probably install some version of Linux on the old system and maybe turn it into a NAS of some sort.

But then that wasn't the point of your reply was it? Because in your rush to play whataboustism and score some internet karma you seemed to have missed the last line of my post - "just so Microsoft, which had declared Windows 10 would be the last Windows ever, could sell a buncha new licenses for forced obsolescence."

That was THE point. I'm well aware of Apple's built-in obsolescence and hate it which is why I still gave the nod to Windows because I USED TO BE ABLE TO RUN NEW WINDOWS VERSIONS ON OLDER HARDWARE. But not anymore because MS has now added forced obsolescence.

Shouldn't that make Windows unacceptable? /s

uh-huh, behind my desk is an intel computer I built myself 10 years ago - Rampage V edition 10, Intel i7-6950X EXTREME (it runs fast because it has EXTREME in the name...also ran fantastically hot but that was another issue...) quad channel DDR4 that was overclocked and an MSI NVIDIA GTX 790. It STILL runs like a champ and I could do about 80% of what I needed it to including coding, photo and video editing and mid level gaming and all around home server.

And what I thought would be my last build... wasn't... because I was forced to update because... get this... while I could get a TPM module for the motherboard - the CPU ISN'T SUPPORTED.

So this year I forked over a ton of cash and built a whole new rig just so Microsoft, which had declared Windows 10 would be the last Windows ever, could sell a buncha new licenses for forced obsolescence.

I've never seen a software distribution mechanism as careless and sloppy as NPM. Bazillions of dependencies and no signing of packages. At the very least, NPM should start demanding signed packages (and have said packages signed by a real human being, not by some CI process with access to the signing key.)

The only 32-bit Windows version currently supported by Steam is Windows 10, and I doubt you're going to have any better compatibility with old games running the 32-bit version of Windows 10 than on the 64-bit version.

Many laptops already don't have upgradable RAM, and since SODIMMs are limited to lower speeds, eventually no laptops will have upgradable RAM. LPCAMM and LPCAMM2 were supposed to solve this, but by the time they started hitting the market, they too suffered the same fate: they allowed faster RAM than SODIMMs, but were still a clockspeed bottleneck.

It's fine to sell a laptop with slower RAM today, but in a few years, when that faster RAM is the mainstream, it won't be.

It was cold!

No, he didn't deserve it. Political violence is always wrong.

But come on. You have to admit there's a huge amount of irony in the fact that a guy who says a certain number of gun deaths per year are acceptable was the victim of gun violence. Doesn't mean he deserved it, but does cast his words in a new light.

What's so completely hypocritical is that just a few months ago, Baby Vance and Elmo Musk were foaming at the mouth about how Europe lacks freedom of expression.

But unless you publicly state that Charlie Kirk crapped nuggets of sunshine and was the most brilliant person on Earth... you now get canceled in the USA.

Outside of a very small community (of which I am a member) this won't even register as a problem, let alone motivate a sizeable number of people to do anything about it. Our species lacks the will to even stop literally poisoning ourselves.

Liberals are fairly consistent in defending people's right to their faith while speaking out against people who want to impose their faith on others.