I've recently seen a trend in tech communities on lemmy where people have developed this mentality that computer hardware is as disposable as a compostable cup, and that after 10-15 years you should just chuck it in the bin and get something new. If someone asks for tech support, they'll just be told to buy new hardware. If someone is saddened their hardware is no longer supported by software they are just entitled, need to pull up their bootstraps, and "only" spend $100 to get something used that will also not be supported in 5 years. It doesn't matter if there is actual information out there that'll help them either. If the hardware is old, people will unanimously decide that nothing can be done.
I've seen this even in linux communities, what happened to people giving a damn about e-waste? Why is the solution always to just throw money at the problem? It's infuriating. I've half a mind to just block every tech/software community other than the ones on hexbear at this point.
Outside of gaming the requirement for new hardware literally only seems to cover the endless abstraction slop that businesses use to push out more features faster. Meanwhile the product I’m using hasn’t changed at all in the last 10 years, continues to have the same bugs yet now requires an nvme ssd and 500 core 800 watt cpu to run to deliver the same functionality as 10 years ago.
I can’t think of a single thing literally ANY of the software that I use has changed in any meaningful way since the 90s other than getting bigger and slower.
Actually games aren’t even immune from this Unreal Engine is prime abstraction slop because shitting out crap matters more than making anything good. God forbid anyone get the time to make their own engines no just ram a barely working open world game into an engine that barely supports rendering more than 3 people on the screen without shitting the bed.
Yes mr nvidia sir i will buy you 1000 watt electric heater to run this mid ass game that hasn’t innovated on shit all since the ps2 era. Ray tracing you say? Wow this really enhances my experience of point to point repetitive collect 20 boar arse mmo ass gameplay ass shit with AI that’s still as rudimentary as guards in hitman 2 silent assassin
Browsers have gone from document renderers to virtual machine app platforms over the last 30 years. It's a significant change, even if mostly not good.
And yet my use of the internet hasn’t changed, gamefaqs, blogs, forums and YouTube. All stuff that rendered just fine before I needed to be shipped 900gb of react bollocks. My desire for web apps is in the negative they almost always feel worse than native applications but those are a dead art.
Nothing browsers have done can I point to having improved my life and nothing that has been done couldn’t already be done better elsewhere.
Full agreement from me.
Lotus notes got basically killed so that's good
New outlook is faster and more reliable at the cost of crippled or removed basic
functionality
We have good videoconferencing now which we definitely couldn't do before. Miss me with that Teams bullshit, but hit me with that group family Facetime.
Miss me with the endless proliferation of locked down messaging, audio and visual software though
With proprietary software in general, really.