@aral well the good news is that if you are privileged enough to already have a "proper" computer (my laptop is 8 years old, intel Core i7) then honestly for most "normal" tasks... you probably don't even need a new one anyway.

I'm not saying it's OK, only trying to highlight the fact that IMHO we reached peak CPU/GPU for the normal users already.

If you're not editing 8k videos or batch processing millions of images but rather "just" browsing the Web to read, pay your bills or editing a presentation then honestly "old" hardware is probably "good enough".

@utopiah @aral You're right that most people absolutely don't need to upgrade their computer hardware: Myself I use a M1 chip by Apple from 2020 and a 5-year-old-or-so AMD Ryzen 5 5600G, and I see zero need to upgrade/update.

Your answer also misses the point though, I'm afraid.

When capitalists pull off shit like this, the answer shouldn't be, "I don't need new hardware anyway, so who cares?"

This news should instead make you angry and you should use that anger productively by channeling it into action: as a first step, convincing yourself that capitalism needs to be abolished and to read the Wikipedia page of who Karl Marx was and all that stuff about the control of the means of production, and increasingly the means of computation. The second step could be to read and watch videos about socialism and the luddites. The third step could be to realize that a strong state has potential issues and that anarchism or communism maybe is more to your liking. Your anger should be the trigger and driving force that finally moves you to unshackle and break free of the capitalist anti-social indoctrination you've lived under your entire life thus far.

Some people in the toxic productivity community might feel so much smarter than me and think that being angry is a hindrance to productivity and your side hustle on your way to becoming a millionaire, and therefore you should ignore the news, including this one. But if your anger turns you into a devout anticapitalist, it was constructive/productive. It had its purpose and fulfilled it. We need the masses to eventually overcome capitalism. Strikes work better if everyone participates. One of capitalism's biggest successes was to make everyone belief the individualism that everyone in the working class needs to fight for herself/himself.

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