Haven’t seen it put any more concisely. It’s true though. I really really hope some AI bubble pops soon…

When you hear people say they hate AI, it’s for more reasons than AI slop, energy consumption, and beating the damn term into every product line you can imagine for little to no benefit.

My 6 year old build had ram in it (2x16) that was going end of life a few years ago so I bought the same pair again before it did. I’ll be good for a while, glad I made the move when I did.

I knew there was something wrong when we started getting positive metrics based on how much we leveraged AI.

100% 😂

Sure there is. Remember that guy that presented it for Microsoft and he didn’t understand why nobody else was hyped?

There’s that guy.

It’s not a windows is shit at managing memory problem though. If you have 1MB of RAM left and you open something, something has to happen. A process killed, an alert generated, something moved to disk instead of RAM (paging), or a system lockup or something. This is the management piece. What to do when you’re out.

They only care about siphoning our data and advertising to us. And vibe coding apparently. Such a buggy pos these days.

Well it is a problem when it’s consistently getting close then I get tickets that computers are performing poorly shortly after. You’re on the cusp of page thrashing if you’re high on usage.

Your use case is not a typical one either, compared to what I’m dealing with. It sounds like maybe you have a few heavy hitters, but when you’re constantly switching between MS office, web pages, and CAD and things like that it becomes very noticeable. If a machine has 15.6GB used out of 16GB, a single web page could trigger some thrashing.

For example, I regularly saw Palo Alto panorama use around 1GB for just the single web page 😅

Ya that would not be a sustainable option in my case unfortunately.

It’s crazy to me that I’m recommending 32GB RAM systems to everyone now because I regularly get alerts for a good chunk of machines that hit close to 16GB usage.

My Linux desktop boots so fast and I can’t tell ya how much ram on boot but I’m pretty sure it’s still less than 2GB 😂

Windows is like 6 or 7 easy.

But how else will you type an installed app name into the start menu and have it open Microsoft edge with shitty search results?

Misses the principle of the matter though.

Yes but this doesn’t generate ad revenue!

/S

China. India. Etc.

It costs them more to add config to disable on different plans. So dumb.

Shits coming more and more full circle. Netflix peaked around covid, then enshitification has just intensified since.

Oh wow really? Casting kinda sucked anyways. Why I moved away from Chromecast after so many issues trying to pause or reconnect to it

Cyber “safety” app. Nice…

Yup I agree.