You are not deciding for the entire gaming community. They can vote with their wallets, and the industry should better listen to them or going to end up on the wrong side of the bubble. It is not in its best shape anyways.
That's what makes this so obviously a push for brain rot and rent seeking, getting a foot into every single last door. I mean, we still have scroll lock keys on our keyboards, but oh noes, some big companies that have been doing nothing but being stains on tech are doing everything via LLM, nobody opens an IDE, "manual coding" is over, NOW, there are no alternatives? Yeah right. Just chill.
My 2015 Chromebook Pixel didn't even live that long.
First, it looked amazing - solid aluminum body, powerful i7 inside, 16G RAM, high-resolution touch-sensitive screen. And that amazing Google-styled LED strip that showed the charge when double-tapped.
Then the hardware started to fail. First, the shiny chrome letters saying "Chromebook" slid aside, revealing a glue-filled depression. I struggled to properly glue it back ever since. Then, the hinge mechanism seal failed, and a sticky substance started to leak from the back. Then the battery started to fail even though it was maybe 2 or 3 years old. And finally, the screen backlight started to fail, and bright spots started to appear from the edges to the point that it can no longer be used. Dead in 3 or 4 years.
For comparison, my also 2015 MacBook Pro 13 still works perfectly, except for the software - Apple also stopped updating macOS, and I'm considering just installing Linux on that otherwise fully functional hardware.
It should be illegal to force software obsolescence on otherwise functioning hardware, increasing the global e-waste footprint.
I installed EndeavourOS on my 2015 MBP 13 and it's pretty great. Machine feels awesome. Had to have Codex patch a few small things (e.g. the fan thresholds, some power management stuff) and the speakers sound atrocious but it's super fast and extremely usable.
Replaced the battery with a $50 replacement one from Amazon myself, and I get like 5-6 hours of usage.
I also have a MBP from 2015 and have a recent OS install via OCLP. With only an i5 and 8GB it's slow to start, but once everything is going it's a reasonable UX if I stick to Safari.
My Core i3 Pixelbook Go is still a peppy little web browser like it's always been. I'm going to replace the battery and see how the Linux install goes when the ChromeOS updates stop coming.
Yes, they are used as air raid shelters, but they were designed like that in the first place. Some of them lie really deep - especially the ones in the city center.
Kyiv metro is one of the deepest in the world. We have one station that is 105 meters deep. So even with fast escalators, it feels like an eternity to go up and down there.
Sadly, the hype is real and that's what's happening in many places. Businesses are eager to bet on AI cause they'd been promised x100 productivity = fire 99 or 100 devs = huge profit.
I expect one day some slopware will succumb to one of these weird production bugs, no LLM will be able to fix it, and when the biz guys ask me for a fix estimate, I'm going to say "3 years".
I went all in on it about a year ago, and I've gotten the hype out of my system now. It's now officially a love/hate relationship. Like everything else that is a mainstay in my life.
The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was a cakewalk compared to what is going on today. 15k dead in 10 years, and the USSR was twice as big as modern ruzzia, so it is more like 7k dead for ruzzia alone. Now compare that to 4.5 years of the invasion of Ukraine - these wars are on a totally different scale. The Afghan affair was a remote low-profile endeavour; ports and oil refineries weren't burning all over the Soviet Union.
Have we delegated writing code to "AGIs" so we can write code to proof that the slop code works?
I have a vague memory of pre-AGI era, when we wrote things called "tests" to verify that our code did what it claimed to do.
