• leisesprecher@feddit.org
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    7 hours ago

    We could start by not requiring new chips every few years.

    For 90% of the users, there hasn’t been any actual gain within the last 5-10 years. Older computers work perfectly fine, but artificial slow downs and bad software cause laptops to feel sluggish for most users.

    Phones haven’t really advanced either. But apps and OSes are too bloated, hardware impossible to repair, so a new phone it is.

    Every device nowadays needs wifi and AI for some reason, so of course a new dishwasher has more computing power than an early Cray, even though nothing of that is ever used.

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          3 hours ago

          the old metal fans that seemed like they would cut your finger off like many older apliances and such would last decades if you did not take care of them and a lifetime or more if they were maintained which mostly meant cleaned and lubricated.

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      7 hours ago

      Tech companies are terrified of becoming commodities, even though a good chunk of them basically are at this point.

      Intel would probably be in a better spot if they’d just leaned into that rather than try to regain the market dominance they once had.