Beau DaignaultFeb 17
rstevens 🐳💨✅
i’m so old, i remember when computers got cheaper over time
Feb 17 at 12:12amIvory for iOS
Show threadrstevens 🐳💨✅Feb 17
sometimes they even got more memory AND cheaper!!
Show threadLuke Dorny Feb 17

@rstevens boy… yeah.

Say, I never did get a dieselsweeties skull tee. I'm sad about it.

Show threadLyle Solla-YatesFeb 17
@rstevens And got better every year? Very strange.
Show threadwaferbabyFeb 17
@rstevens You and me both, RS.
Show threadScott MichaudFeb 17
@rstevens I can appreciate this joke... :3
Show threadThe War on Memorial DayFeb 17
@rstevens lol
Show threadJohn RockefellerFeb 17
@rstevens perhaps we will learn to do more with the hardware we have
Show threadBen PyeFeb 17
@rocky1138 @rstevens but how will we make even more things require Electron with that attitude? /hj
Show threadGlenn FitzpatrickFeb 17
@rstevens We used to have Moore’s Law. Now we just have Everything Costs More Law.
Show threadTyler SuitsFeb 17
@rstevens oof. And it wasn’t even that long ago.
Show threadPaul_IPv6Feb 17

@rstevens

something something moore's law something. ;)

Show threadAprettyture! [0172]Feb 17
@rstevens back in my day slop meant a meal of uniquely bad quality

- carrie
Show threadᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIESFeb 17

@rstevens

psst

want a heavily used low capacity SSD?

$500

Show threadBrantskyFeb 17
@rstevens | ... and OEM's took that personally.
Show threadLisPiFeb 17
@rstevens It's mostly a question of granularity, they still do at a coarser granularity, especially with used hardware included.
Show threadxs4me2Feb 17

@rstevens

Hey, me too!

Show threadDusk to Don Feb 17

@rstevens

More prescient by the day:

❝If you're a non-binary in your early 20s, buy an entire pallet of old X230
ThinkPads

Go into debt if you have to

This is not satire. You can get 1,900lbs of ThinkPad for $500

And if you buy it right it will hold its value if not appreciate❞

#meme #memes

Show threadmusicmatze  Feb 17
@dusk where?
Show threadDusk to Don Feb 17

@musicmatze

It’s a 2024 meme, a parody of some post about fancy watches.

Thinkpads do come by the pallet, but I couldn’t find any current listings

https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2978276-if-youre-a-guy-in-your-early-20s-buy-a-rolex

If you’re a non-binary in your early 20s, buy an entire pallet of old X230 Think...

See more 'If You're a Guy in Your Early 20s, Buy a Rolex' images on Know Your Meme!

Know Your Meme
Show threadMichael DexterFeb 17
@rstevens And network interfaces got faster.
Show threadjwzFeb 17
@rstevens Most people include the Epsilon Georg which should not have been counted
Show threadbigiainFeb 17

@jwz @rstevens I’m starting to harbor a borderline conspiracy theory that all the ex cryptocurrency grifters who are now AI (cocaine) grifters have worked out they don’t need AI to _work_, because what the whole industry/bubble is actually designed and being used for, is to create artificial scarcity in real world resources instead of magic internet beans.

If you have a conspiracy/consortium that can create artificial scarcity for things people and companies need by controlling global ram and hard disk supply, you can price gouge everybody and make usurious profits.

If you own contracts for all the electricity and water in places you claim to be building data centers you can profit from that.

If you can price ownership of the means of computation out of reach of anyone not part of your consortium everyone else will be forced into renting compute from data centers, many of which your consortium controls.

If you prop this up with circular paper value only contracts and agreements between you global consortium members there is no legal jurisdiction that can easily hold you to account for racketeering or conspiracy.

Perhaps the reason AI doesn’t work is because it only needs to work in the context of investor demos and to get techbros hooked thinking they’re gonna be part of the “getting rich” phase when AI shows its real potential <Elon voice> “within 6 to 12 months”.

Show threadrstevens 🐳💨✅Feb 17
@bigiain @jwz this makes sense right up there with facebook creating AI zombie accounts for dead people to keep the user count up
Show threadJehan Le DoeFeb 17
@rstevens I'm so old, I remember when fascism was an absolute abomination to be denounced, not the mainstream thing that gets all the media excited.
Show threadDavide BucciFeb 17
@rstevens we also used to be happy when a new version of a software came out. It had new features you can use for doing something useful!
Show threadMax FentonFeb 17
@rstevens OpenCore Legacy Patcher has reduced my computer upgrade cost to pretty much zero
Show threadCarlos SolísFeb 17
@rstevens Gordon Moore, of the eponymous law, died in 2023. I don't think it's a coincidence.
Show thread‍🌬️Feb 18
@rstevens ouch 
Show threadCrissa KentavrFeb 18

@rstevens @aatheus

I'm older and I remember when a fire in a factory quadrupled RAM prices when I had saved up for my first computer (which I was getting for college) and I had to only get 4MB instead of 16.

It happens.