An interesting article about software development
bikegremlin
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The title: War of the workstations: How the lowest bidders shaped today's tech landscape
It is very well written and I enjoyed reading it. It showed me a different perspective, and talked about some stuff I didn't know existed.
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man.. this forum is so quiet.
let's get into it, let me babble about this.
this..hits too close to home. let me take this from a perspective of an average joe that uses computer from day-to-day basis, not having enough brain to design a EUV to create cpu or anything.
last time I bought(build?) a desktop pc is from 2012 (intel i5-3470), aside from the gpu that's it (RX580 - 2017, mostly for CAD & Blender). and honestly, It's pretty impressive knowing this thing still perfectly usable in 2024. starting in 2020 I put this thing in my seperate room since my employer are paying for it as my remote workstation for WFH.
I never had a plan to upgrade this since whatever I'm doing, this unit can handle it. until this year, one of my workflow I had to test an app that explicitly requires AVX2, so my employer had to set up a remote server for it (vscode-server, cicd stuff).
If it doesn't break, I will not replace it. as shrimple as that.
during this 2012 to 2024, I'm sure as heck getting told whatever I uses already obsolete. and intel/amd have now has way better IPC or just better performance in general. yeah sure the performance is better, but as an enduser i feel like they're getting more restrictive. people like me will see intelME as an inconvenience, like, wtf? if you want to have remote hardware access don't put them in consumer level hardware. keep it in servers or OEM. those Rockstar Ninja 10x Sales were shoving it in just because they'll have the justification to raise the product price. we don't care if you don't use them, or if it will become a liability in the future lol! money money money!. In the other hands, looking at OS department, everyone and their boyfriend's sons are trying their best to put as much as DRM compatibility into it, they were seeing that god forsaken mobile OS has awful walled garden and think now even Desktop OS must have the same principle like that.
as from someone who've been using internet since 1995, it's sad to see that the current state of workstation are:
Every breath you take
Every bond you break
Every step you take
Every game you play
Every night you stay
Every payment you make
All are tracked in the name of telemetry to turn you into more profit numbers.
I hate the antichrist.
Fuck this 24/7 internet spew of trivia and celebrity bullshit.
Hey Relja!
Thanks for this link! I read the article. I need to read it a couple more times. Like you, I didn't know about several of the people or about several of the topics discussed.
How did you find it?
Did you read any of the linked pages?
I kept the article open on my Chromebook. Probably I will look at it again. I might even check out some of the links, do some Google searches, and read more.
Thanks again!
Tom
Edit to add: Looks like this article was on HN 13 days ago.
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
I found it shared on a social network. It looked quite different from the average articles that are published nowadays ("SEO crap" mostly). I thought other LESbians might like it, and I was curious to hear what others think about it.
Still haven't read all the linked pages.
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