I've got 32 gigs of RAM on my corporate laptop and it's dog slow and chokes constantly. And I keep thinking about those reviews of these 8 GB Windows 11 laptops where they talk about how the figures like I said unusable.

When you are short on RAM you can have moments when the computer is usable especially if you're logging in as a super user with all the extra stuff turned off. But a regular user is going to suffer. Especially if there are corporate user where they can't turn off a lot of the crap.

God help me if I right click on something without holding the shift key down so that I don't get the old right click menu. I don't even know how you fuck up or right click menu but Microsoft did it. There is a AI bullshit all over my right click menu though so there's that and of course I can't turn any of it off because it's all corporate and corporate loves AI because they're hoping the fire all of us and replace us with machines

I already covered this in my post. We have known the shortages are coming for years and years and we knew that prophets would explode when the shortages hit and continue for at least another 6 to 10 years.

Every single person in the industry knew this was coming. You're not in the industry so you can be forgiven for not knowing that but I pointed that out in my post had you bothered to read and understand it.

This means, since I have to spell it out to you, that every single one of the dozens of semiconductor companies that could be making a ton of money selling ram right now didn't enter the market when they knew they could have made a ton of money. They could already be online making gobs and gobs and gobs of free cash.

An 8-year-old would ask why the fuck they aren't doing that.

A 10-year-old would know that somebody was preventing them from doing that.

A 12 year old would know but it's the existing players in the market colluding together threatening to lower prices suddenly if anyone interest the market.

Where's that leave you?

Uhh, console makers already do hardware lockdown and game companies work with that and even include their own sorts of shenanigans. Have for at least 20 years, now.

What rock are you living under?

If you want to get back into the hobby of computing and or video gaming then you need to enforce antitrust law.

Everyone in the industry knew these shortages were coming and everyone knew they were going to last for a decade or more.

In a free market several of these smaller semiconductor companies would have just entered the ram market and we wouldn't have had the shortages.

Those companies and the banks that would have supplied them know that if they try they will just be run out of business and no one is going to protect them because we don't enforce antitrust law.

On top of that it's just hard to borrow money because someone keeps causing runaway inflation...

In America if you want to have computers you need to vote democrat. We are two party system because of our winner-take-all for his past the post voting system and that's not likely to change anytime soon. And we both know which of the two parties actually enforces laws of the white collar kind.

Pick your local equivalent if you're not American but if you're going to keep voting for people who promise you the world and deliver high inflation and zero law enforcement on white collar crime then you're going to get what you get and that means you're not going to be able to enjoy your hobbies anymore.

Right now there's a lot of old computer hardware people can pick up and play with but that stuff is starting to end up in the hands of people who want or need it and the price is going up. It'll be another hobby you're just cut off from in 5 or 10 years Max unless something changes.

Oh, and I'm sure taking video games away from jobless angry young men with nothing to lose will turn out great for everyone. I'm sure you won't run out of bullets before the world runs out of desperate people.

You sound like a criminal. It's a Communist. Either way stay put. A nice man from Immigrations and Customs Enforcement will be by for a chat.

It's not about being a "pussy", it's about deciding what they want in life. If you want them to make a different decision then you need to make your preferred alternative more attractive.

The editors don't edit or care enough to listen. The owners don't care either, despite the old Slashdot having vastly more users.

Being "Slashdotted" by users flocking to mentioned sites went away along with Slashdot influence.

They'll likely sell tons of them to users who don't need more than what those specs deliver. In ancient times netbooks sold well despite weak specs.

Same as the base Macbook Neo. I thought Linux was super efficient though? Surely you can run a decent desktop on that.

Reviews of these 8 gigabyte laptops running Windows 11 have them unable to complete basic tasks like web browsing and conference calls.

Unless the ram is upgradable this is going to be a disaster. People just return them because they feel broken. Microsoft is trying to solve the problem but internal culture means they can't. Every division of Microsoft is fighting to be profitable and so they want to gobble up your RAM and use it to serve up advertisements and synergize with other companies for profit. This is why the windows 11 weather app uses 3 GB of RAM.

You can suggest that, but you are saying "give up your close ties to family/friends/social life", and "move further from your job, or find a new one". Obviously if they really want kids they will make it work, but it's the ones who would like them but are not willing to give up so much of their lives, and limit themselves to one or zero.

The "fuck you, kids are your problem and I'm not paying for them" attitude has a lot to do with the declining birth rate in some countries.

No electronic records are "safe", unless air-gapped.

It's not practical to have widely used systems and completely effective security. Humans and computers are inherently fallible.

They're too busy eating all the kumquats off my fruit trees to make any noise. If you said Kookaburras then it might be a different story.

What you describe is the inevitable result of women being empowered through having their own careers and being able to own property independently. Used to be that they needed a man and the clock was ticking, so they had to settle. Now a relationship is something they can take or leave, so they have higher standards and expectations.

Men who don't understand that tend to think of women as bitches and uppity.