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Comment on Microsoft Windows 365 goes down the day after Microsoft celebrates 'reimagining the PC as a cloud service that streams a Cloud PC'

jkercher@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

That’s fucking nuts because any device that can connect to a cloud is powerful enough to run an operating system (they will probably not give user access to the non-volatile memory). Just not a bloated AI spyware box that they want.

I work in embedded, and you would be surprised how much you can do with a CPU under 100mhz when there isn’t an operating system in the way. We need to get back to basics in the software industry. We’ve been going down the wrong road for a looooong time, and the AI bubble is only accelerating is in that wrong direction.

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utopiah@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

you would be surprised how much work a CPU under 100mhz can do when there isn’t an operating system/browser in the way

Latest cool thing I saw : Doom on my earbuds doombuds.com which IMHO demonstrate greatly how much more powerful so many tiny things around us really are.

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- jkercher@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Yup. The problem was never the hardware. It’s the stack. We’re all carrying supercomputers in our pockets now.
  
  Feels like so many (dare I say most) programmers don’t even understand the work that the OS does to make the C programming environment as nice as it currently is, let alone a 200 line TODO app that uses 6GB of RAM.
  
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