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I guess if you hold the religious belief that imagination is evil then this line of reasoning seems rational. Alan Kay has talked about this many times, when a
by casey2 2y ago
I guess if you hold the religious belief that imagination is evil then this line of reasoning seems rational.
Alan Kay has talked about this many times, when a new technology comes around most people just see it as doing the same thing you could already do just faster, rather than enabling entirely new ways of doing something.
By all metrics the web is a slow buggy mess, but it's inherently different from a set of manpages and email addresses. While it's true that you don't "need" to do anything are you sure throughout the next 30 years that you will have no usecase for a local L*M as one example?
- freetanga 2y agoI think a better approach is to have a separate machine as a local server for specialized loads - be it rendering, LLMs, or whatever. For daily drivers I agree with the author, fresh machines can last almost a decade. Browser, productivity, etc now works well on a phone, should work well on a 6-8 year old pc (if you can avoid windows). My 2013 Mac Air runs Mint Linux very well and does all this. Separate server allows to decouple needs, get specific hardware and have simpler and independent update cycle. Also here buying refurbished enterprise hardware should last 5-8 years for a local user, again preventing from buying new… Demanding Gaming is the exception to this idea, but I only play games from 5 years ago, as my backlog is huge and I buy on Steam Deals mostly. No more day 1 patches for me