SlowTao

This is why I swing like a pendulum between "a better world is possible" and "let the system burn itself out.".

Unfortunately, that defense allows hoarding wealth. If the wealth was more evenly distributed globally, there would be little reason to defend against raids.

This is how places like the US despite having 4% of the population have about a quarter of the material and energy consumption. Not to single them out, I am in Australia, it is a similar ratio.

I am not defending this situation, just highlighting its role.

That doesn't sound unreasonable. That is Ivy Bridge/Intel Core 3rd gen capabilities. You aren't running a generative AI but can do all manner of work loads. Combined with some software efficiency gains and you could be fairly comfortable.

This part of why I have been advocating for years that the open source/free software folks should be focusing on optimization and stability/security as long term it will probably be much more useful that adding features that can be dumped on top.

Yep, Apple buying PA Semi was an indicator of their intention all those years back. I suspect intel was just hoping they would fail at their ambitions.

Hey... that Arc GPU is the one silver lining to what intel is doing recently. Is it perfect, far from it but it ain't bad.

And welcome to the "fun" world of Stack Ranking.

Alas this is something many have been debating for decades at this point. Unfortunately, there isn't a really clear answer. Both sides have good and bad points.

Just talking about his views on software and technology. When it comes to stuff outside that, I get his logic but damn he misses on a lot of things. Some very notable over the years. ;)

Yep, bye Newpipe, you have been wonderful.

Having spoken to Stallman over the years many times. One of the most difficult people to talk to, but completely spot on with his ideas.

Same way Vegan was forked to Plant based diet, to strip out the ethics question.

Stallman has mentioned this before that it is a limit of the English language. Thus the use of Libre.

Problem is that many people today do still mistake Free software as no cost and for good reason. Funnily enough, "open sourcesource" turns out to have great SEO. Free software doesn't.

This is something the folks in the Permacomputing space have been discussing on and off for years.

Maybe we can make chips at the level of a 386 but they would be freedom respecting.

Starting to sound like Stallman again.

Yep, there are times when I feel like it is best just to let them win to the point it completely break the bottom of the bucket. Rather than a slow creep, a sudden lurch so that everyone can see it.

Vista is the technical foundation Windows has been built on ever since. It can be praised for that at least.

The other day we found my wifes laptop from 2009, complete with the original Vista install. Still in hibernation from about 12 years back! Firing up vista is a visual feast. For all its technical and usability offlaws, Microsoft absolutely nailed the aesthetics it.

Dont need a Power10 for that. Just get a Powermac G5 tower in a kernel panic and those fans will be flying!

A few years back Chris Hedges did a showshow/podcast or something and he was forced to finally read in depth a lot more Rand.

I love his defeated responded of "It is amazing just how pedestrian those books are. There is nothing interesting in them.".

Hedges is always worth listening to even if you won't always agree but he does make doomers look like utopian optimists.

Not surprising. The larger the company the more complex it typically gets at all levels. Probably take 7 months of paperwork to swap a light globe.

Apple hearing they have an excuse not to add more storage, cue happy shareholder noises

Absolutely, but until I can get that easily in a battle harden Thinkpad design, I will probably still be using this. I aam not against upgrading at all, just haven't needed it yet. That said this last year, a lot of applications have finally grown to the point that I can see the horizon creeping closer.

Absolutely. RMS ultimately is completely right, its just the conditions for it to work are nowhere near right. If anything we seem to be slipping further all the time despite the uptake in users.

Pretty much. I could see Linux share peaking at 10% tops until that changes.

I suspect that in some places they might start requiring ID when purchasing large volumes of storage.

"Only a criminal would need 10 terabytes of storage!"

Something stupid like that.

Really depends on your use case. I personally still run my 17 year old 2.4GHz Core 2 duo with 4GB of RAM as my daily runner. I simply do not hit the walls even on that thing. Most folks here simply would not accept that and not because they are spoilt but their works loads demand more.

See if they are looking for marketing people. If so, you're hired!

That is a great middle ground. Keeps with the overall theme without compromise.

While this is not something I would probably use directly just due to technical limitations (incorrect hardware), I do really like the idea. I am constantly clearing out old stuff that I simple do not use, it is a good way to be. No need to carry everything around, everything gets voided in a long enough time.

Outside of the digital space, all the paintings I have done and everything I touch will be rendered null. Many will go to the rubbish tip either in my life time or very shortly afterwards. Don't try to cling on and drag this stuff everywhere.

Back to the OS however, hopefully you could allocate somethings to be manually exempt from the deletion but it would have to be done so that people must do it intentionally rather than just trying to avoid the issue of deletion. There are many one or two notes I keep with little bits and pieces I would like to keep, the rest of it is just noise.

So you know how there are different religious factions that broadly have very similar views but they practically go to war due to the variance of small details... screw mavericks, OSX 10.4 Tiger FOREVER!!!!

Just out of interest, in what way do you see them as unhealthy? Mostly that the concept of health can vary wildly.

I would also say that i have seen the complete opposite to you, alas this is all anecdotal.