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Microsoft Windows 365 goes down the day after Microsoft celebrates 'reimagining the PC as a cloud service that streams a Cloud PC' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] 31 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

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 the bloated AI spyware box that they want.

I work in embedded, and you would be surprised how much work a CPU under 100mhz can do when there isn't an operating system/browser 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 us in that wrong direction.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    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 https://doombuds.com/ which IMHO demonstrate greatly how much more powerful so many tiny things around us really are.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months 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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