Nothing quite like offloading all the heavy lifting to massive data centers in the cloud, only to bottleneck your $2,000 laptop because a todo-list app needed its own dedicated copy of Chrome just to render three lines of text.

That sounds disgusting. I'm willing to fall back to like DDR2 and my Core 2 Duo again, if it means maintaining my digital sovereignty.

Jokes on them, I have converted my entire workflow to be as simple as possible and I like playing retro games. I am good with using old "outdated" hardware.

Hell my laptop is 10+ years old now.

Fuck their subscriptions. I'll game locally on the thin clients if I have to. 2034, 512MB of RAM? It will fucking run Doom! Fuck it I remember running a Minecraft server with 768MB of system memory back in 2011. It worked for over 10 people.

Its going to be odd having really powerful CPUs and being limited by memory, what that leaves us able to run or not and how well it will run. Discord should be sweating, return to IRC!

Tbh, thanks to Wirth's Law there's a lot of unoptimized code out there. With the squeeze on hardware there's incentive for developers to actually give a shit about making their software run well so they can maintain/build their userbase.

Don't get me wrong, the current hardware situation is bullshit, but there's ways to minimize its impact on consumers

That's always been the end goal. They have the capacity and the money for that now

Except stuff do get more powerful over time, even a mobile phone is quite capable today, no need for a thin client there.

Fuck those hoarders though.