but maybe it's for good, as more and more developer will now be forced to optimise their app.

Maybe the start of the death of all those web stack and electron app that eat RAM like i eat tic tac

More reason to re-use older hardware and not buy anything new.

Big tech can keep their shiny new hardware.

Tech oligarchs see their role as rebuilding feudalism & aristocracy.

The role of the peasantry is serving these creeps.

They don't want people having fun.
They don't want people to have affordable access to information.
They don't want a literate & educated work force.
They see a comfortable life as a threat to the hateful "motivational" practices they're enacting.

Slaves shouldn't have a private life or time away from work, in their view.

newrepublic.com/article/203337…

Welcome to the Age of Aristopopulism

As you might suspect, it’s just a fancy word for oligarchy and kleptocracy.

^{The New Republic}

Just one business case more for hyperscalers and AI.

Instead of having the joy of paying 500€ for some RAM modules once, the customer can now pay 100€ for RAM in a data center every month. Gaming is reduced to streaming, so instead of paying 80€ to Valve once, you can now pay 8€ everytime you play.

While I'm totally pissed off at this and all the damage Altmann and his friends are doing to feed and sell their stochastic parrots I don't see having "just" 4GB RAM in phones and 8GB in laptops as a terrible scenario.

If software and websites are decently implemented you can go far with 8GB of RAM in your computer and do we really need a big quantity of RAM on phones who by design have very limited multitasking?

On the other hand I'm afraid that if this situation continues and worsens computing will become less and less accessible to people who aren't well off. One of the good things that happened in the last 40 years is that computing become accessible to basically everyone (at least in the West) and I'm scared that this push to AI will willingly or unwillingly ruin that.

Empirically, the next wave of production tends to be 10 times as much, if not 10 times as large, and cheaper. So it may be only a pause.

I wonder if it is long enough to be worth someone building boards that take assorted slightly dated DIMMs

#DecRecs Day 2 - Some fav manga of 2025

Zeikin de Katta Hon - a delinquent finds a love for books and gets a job at the library
Sakamoto Days - a former assassin seeks to build a new mundane life but his past won't set him free easily
To Your Eternity - an immortal being is created to experience the world, able to take the form and reproduce things that stimulate him, often through immense pain, he learn what it means to seek joy for himself and others
Otoyomegatari - a bride finds her home amongst a new community that she's been brought into through an arranged marriage
After God - a surreal alternate universe where gods have taken over with powers beyond our imagination, we learn that no one is who they seem to be
Onna no Sono no Hoshi - a slice of life of a handsome but dorky teacher at an all girl's school and the shenanigans the students get up to

#manga #reading

#DecRecs Day 3 - Fav indie games of 2025

Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood - An oracle witch is exiled for a thousand years. 200 years in, she breaks down and uses forbidden magic. With a new deck of her own design, she learns she is more powerful than she ever imagined.
Diceomancer - Slay the Spire but you can roll dice that let you change numbers on the screen using magic dice!
Baladins - A group of heroes are caught in a time loop as the universe keeps being eaten by a hungry dragon. Each run, you bring back knowledge from your previous adventures. Great intro to dice-rolling rpgs.

#videoGames #gaming #indieGames

#DecRecs Day 4 - Tea I've Been Enjoying

- Pandan / Chrysanthemum - Pandan is one of my favorite flavors in the world. It's got a vanilla-like taste. Chrysanthemum tea was one of my childhood favorites, and I saw someone add pandan to a preparation that felt like a prefect combo.
- Honey jujube - I get these in the big glass jars. Jujube is like a plum. I tend to strain the fruit, but it's fine to eat them. Sometimes I also get lemon and orange to mix things up and get something more zesty. I usually strain out the zest. I prefer this to orange juice.
- Barley tea (sometimes with honey) - encouraged by a traditional chinese medicine consult. Barley is more mild than the pu er type teas that I usually drink. It has a very grounding feeling to it and is easy to combine with others.

#tea

#DecRecs Day 5 - Fav Movies I Watched in 2025

- Searching (2018) - Told through the frame of a laptop screen, a single Korean American father digs into the digital footprint of his missing daughter, only to realizes that he might not be the only one that knows nothing about her
- Sinners (2025) - The opening of Black-owned juke joint is disrupted by fanged visitors looking to have their own taste of joy.
- Past Lives (2023) - A Korean American woman is reunited with her childhood friend and former lover from her home country. They reflect on the bitter-sweetness of knowing what could have been and what cannot be undone.

#DecRecs Day 6 - Fav Board Games I Played in 2025

- Link City (2024) - It's every gay person's right to critique urban planning, and finally you can show off the skill of your intuition. One person chooses locations then looks away. The other person has to choose the order of what should be built in those places. Finally, the location decider has to figure out the order that the urban attractions were placed!
- Cuttle Cards - Based on the card game Cuttle, the website Cuttle.cards is a digital and cuttlefish themed adaptation with the standard 52-card deck game where cards have both point values and special moves you can use to best your opponents.
- Eldritch Horror (2013) - Travel the world with your fellow investigators to unlock clues behind the strange eldritch beings that are bending space and time. Available for free as a mod in Table Top Simulator.
- Seasons (2012) - Build a deck that drives you through the four seasons, each with their own unique elemental abilities. Find yourself skipping back and forth through time, calling upon summons to lend you a hand, or taking a potion that gives you what you need at the perfect moment. Available for free online at Board Game Arena.

#boardGames #tableTopGames #cardGames

#DecRecs Day 7 - My VPN of choice is Mullvad. The pricing is very fair for what they offer. It's slightly cheaper if you buy a physical license from a store (such as Amazon). It's easy to set up for non-techie people, multi-platform, and has various content blockers to reduce ads, etc. They make it easy to set up your license with very little personal information attached and release blogs explaining their features comprehensively.

#VPN #mullvad