What a bizzare reaction. Sorry I burst your imaginary bubble?

I don’t do the work to back up somebody else’s opinion.

Yet you expect others to do that here for you.

You are sealioning right now. You’re asking someone else to do a shit ton of work under the guise of “just asking questions” pretending to have healthy discourse.

A lot of this sites people suck and its filled with people justifying absurd things, but right here, you are asking a question so open ended its tantamount to asking for a thesis paper, and those would still be scrutinized.

That is never happening.

Firstly, because the ram is primarily being used in systems that use ram that is completely incompatible with your systems.

Even if you are a homelaber, the ram used on GPUs is literally just the dies, and of a different type, GDDR, or HBM, which is even more impossible to use.

The servers themselves are requiring crazier and crazier power setups such that you could not power it at home.

The days of just getting a crap ton of hyperscaler stuff for home fun are nearing their end.

Like, even without AI, you’re not getting a serviceable Graviton rack in your home.

The other reason this is not happening, is because even if shit hits the fan, companies will not give you the same prices they had before, no matter what.

That’s just how companies now operate. The shareholders never want them to lower prices, and so they don’t.

The only time consumers see new prices are with blitz business strategies to monopolize whole markets, and those have very obvious monkeys paws clauses.

That is such an utterly awful user experience I am shocked it still exists currently.

It’s kinda to be expected for the thing only enthusiasts claim is super easy to use, but still.

I must disagree with you there. I get more support from the open source community and their things than I do from commercial stuff.

I would say this is true, but only in a way that largely misses the finer details and thus the bigger picture.

The biggest example I can think of that that I feel generally represents what I was saying, is the difference between Fusion 360 and FreeCAD, where its free, because thats the value of your time if you use it.

FreeCAD will have a higher likelyhood to have you find a community helper to help with a specific technical problem, and while Autodesk does respond to tickets, they are less hands on and if your ticket gets resolved youll just get a notification a month or 2 later if lucky.

The thing is, Fusion is actually usable, and FreeCAD is painful to use. It is so painful, I won’t even hear the tired “people just aren’t used to it” arguments people love to trot out about it.

It purposefully uses UX that doesn’t match the patterns of any other CAD package, that people (enough that I am comfortable generalizing) find utterly unintuitive, and has had major issues that go unsolved simply because they’re not seen to be issues.

They literally only recently, after literal decades of existing partially solved the most famous problem, the topological naming problem, and they still don’t allow multiple profiles in one sketch.

Its Free, and maybe in some ways it could be said to have “support” but … if you make any money at all, you’d be literally better paying 800 bucks a year to Autodesk to not have to deal with it.

Just to be super clear if you aren’t familiar, Onshape, Solidworks, Inventor, whatever. All of them anyone who has used any of them can switch over and be proficient enough in minutes.

FreeCAD is the far outlier.

It’s so bad, because of the underlying spaghetti code, that some venture capitalists came in, thinking they could just fix the UX and then sell cloud services ontop, tried to fix it, realized the fire, realized there was no way they could make it profitable within a reasonable amount of time, and shut down.

That being said, I fully realize that FreeCAD is at the Gimp end of the spectrum and not the Blender end of the spectrum (with Blender being so good and useful that it is (in places) actually used in industry.

The most interesting part of this comment is that you could not answer the question, and instead needed to deflect, and answer a question that wasn’t asked.

This just goes to show that my question was indeed an on point criticism of the previous take.

Programmers can also create non-enshittified solutions in their off time and release it publicly for free and many do.

It’s a nice idea, but what that ultimately boils down to, is horrible to use programs with barely any support because people (reasonably) don’t have the time or support to give them the full beans.

They also result in programs that are basically only made for their users, and that, to everyone else are some weird esoteric programs with outlandish UX.

Like I like open source as much as the next guy, but open source software is not fixing the enshitification of society, especially as devices take away more and more user autonomy. These are bandaid solutions that allow the power users most equipped to make arguments against the hostile enshitification takeover to bury their heads in the sand as they scurry to stay alive, squeezing between the cracks, increasingly having to give up in more and more areas as solutions take more and more focus to keep alive.

Also, more than that, how many programmers actually are doing this? I’d say it’s a rare occurrence.

What good can a marketer do for the world?

Activism. They communicate and convince people, so activism is an area where they could help the world if they so chose.

This is such elitist nonsense. What specialty tricks do you think an every day user would possibly need to know that they couldn’t learn in a single semester.

This is elitist bullshit that isn’t reflected in the real world.

It truly is. They are literally just doing the infinite abstraction argument where they pretend only the level of abstraction they’re at is valid, when I could easily say that they don’t really know how to use a computer if they can’t compile their own C Code or program directly in assembly.

You don’t think scammers don’t also use other tools?

This is a ridiculous reason to replace more useful general skills with less useful specific skills (for the majority).

They are good at social manipulation and compartmentalization.

The programmers are similarly morally bankrupt, as they’re implementing the enshitification of the worst people, the business people who make the shitty decisions both implement.

Why would they? Ram hasn’t been a problem for more than a decade relating to UI.

Electron apps being 500MB simply isnt a problem. People aren’t loading 15 seperate instances, at most power users are loading like 3.

I think its because ultimately, most linux users either are using linux professionally, and therefore only care about the professional goals they’ve been assigned to completing, or they tend to be rather insufferable (the type to tell new users to enter sudo -rf --no-preserve-root or pretend that the average user both does not need any powerful features, but is also too lazy and stupid to use powerful features, but should still switch to linux to be berated for some reason).

That combines with the biggest thing: That there isn’t the money to go into developing things for linux that there is for mac or windows because the people aren’t there, and the people arent there because linux is basically for snobbish elitists, the fringe of society or professionals, AND has all the problems of that catch 22 in the first place, which further concentrates the worst people being the ambassadors for linux, like the real, felt ambassadors, like what someone actually runs into when trying to switch.

I do think Valve is doing a pretty heavy lift right now, and I am very glad they picked KDE, a DE that focuses on open ended pragmatism.

I mean their post history seems to match, as does their presence here and comment.

I just think some people only believe in ideas insofar as they are in the groups that benefit from said policies.

Why is this type of privileged exclusionary 1 dimension opinion even upvoted?

There are multiple problems that matter at any given time.

Saying that racism is a distraction ignores the very real people who are being harmed right now because they aren’t you, and thus you don’t care about them. “I got mine” but about other issues.

Some take for a socialist to have really…

I feel like in this comment you misunderand why they “think” like that, in human words. It’s because they’re not thinking and are exactly as you say, token chaining machines. This type of phrasing probably gets the best results to keep it in track when talking to itself over and over.

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Is the fact that SteamOS is based on Arch going to change this such that prior Arch users must now suffer through Gentoo or will they stay the same, considering the proprietary inclusions of SteamOS to be enough to exclude it from the fold?

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