I bet this will make people to hang on to what thay have for longer and thus force software companies finally create better optimisations and stop making everythung more resource hungry. Alternatively people would just have to drop off the crazy train.
this post was submitted on 26 Feb 2026
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Hah. They will just make more things cloud based, unfortunately
Which the whole point of this, anyway.
If no one can buy personal computers, they’ll have to rent compute from corporations who have hoarded all the computing hardware.
You’ll own nothing and you’ll pretend to like it, or else they will cut you the fuck off. Please drink a verification can.
You have to have a thin client device to access the servers out on the Internet, which is...kind of what a sub-$500 low-end PC or budget smartphone would be.
I suspect that it's more that a lot of people are going to defer upgrades at the low end of the scale, use an older device for longer than they otherwise would have.
Might not be great for security; smartphone OSes won't get security updates after N years, and Windows 10 is EOL.
Maybe a positive side effect will be OS and applications beginning to be more conscious of their RAM consumption. I am absolutely certain that due to the era of cheap memory storage, applications (browsers especially) have gotten insanely bloated.
Keep AI models out of your web browser and core operating system, and maybe 4GB can still cut it.
Unfortunately not likely going to happen since AI is used more and more to write software, and AI doesn't tend to write very efficient software.
Don’t worry, there’s lots of ram in the cloud. Use a cloud OS. We promise we won’t watch you.
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