Well, two things. Three actually. First of all, no need to yell.

Secondly, the article didn’t make that point very well - it mentioned the mac mini (which IS a computer) and smartphones, both of which my macbook neo processor is a good analogy for. It also talked about m.2 SSD’s, and the RTX 5070 GPU in laptops. You can’t come in here and pretend you didn’t talk about computers.

But thirdly, even if that is your point, my response was mostly an example. We are not floundering for chips and you didn’t mention embedded processors or other things that “non-computer” devices use at all in the article, not even once, yet my more general point still stands. I don’t see any evidence that this will have the effect you claim it will.

Kinda the same response to be honest, the chips are fast, in my contrived example the macbook neo runs on a binned iphone 16 chip with a broken core, yet it’s fine for most people.

When I was using computers in the late 90’s, the idea of a 10 year old computer was mental. My friend would be running windows 98 on his pentium 2, and if I had a 10 year old machine it would mean a machine from the goddam 80’s, it couldn’t run anything. The difference was night and day. Now, I use a desktop PC that I built 9 years ago, intel i5, nvidia 1080ti, and it runs honestly just fine for just about everything. Wasn’t even anywhere near the top of the range back then, apart from the graphics card it was practically budget.

We’re alright. Computers are so fast now. This is my hot take of the century maybe, but the latest and greatest is always expensive and computers have honestly almost never been so affordable performance to dollar, apart from the recent ram spikes.

I wouldn’t sweat it so much.

A nothing article is pretty bad. It’s the article equivalent of a reaction tiktok. It adds nothing to the conversation but raises heckles.

We’ll just pay out the nose or settle for less ram. Most consumers don’t need more than 8gb of ram anyway, see the macbook neo. And the world will keep turning.

This is prime clickbait by hooking onto an outrage sentiment but it doesn’t really deliver. I thought this place was gonna be smarter than reddit, and it is, but not by much. Ugh. I guess I should have stopped assuming I could ever go back to August again.

to be honest passwords on their own are on their way out as a form of security entirely for this reason - they’re inherently weak no matter how they’re stored as they’re a single point of failure. we’re even moving on from 2 factor to passkeys.

fair

Controversial take from someone who dual boots windows and linux on my home PC and uses macs as work machines but, honestly windows is fine. IMO if you’re the kind of person who cares about a good running machine you’ll have configured settings and gotten rid of the bloatware and done a bunch of stuff to make windows a relatively decent experience anyway, and linux requires a similar amount of effort to get running the way you want it also, but can be a differently polished experience.

Modern OS’s are much of a muchness in practice with regards to their pros and cons. Please don’t downvote me to hell linux lovers, it’s my honest opinion after decades of use of all three.

it’s more that even if this did happen, it’s unlikely to be specific to mint.

I’ve actually never met a vegan who acts like this… linux users however

And yet you and most people use a door with a lock instead of something more secure because… in general they do work well for the purpose they’re trying to serve. Most criminals aren’t master criminals, and master criminals aren’t coming after your house.