Starting to think about a Neu-Amish movement where we just stop with tech advancements post 2020 and live like it’s 2019 again. Shit, I’ll give up LTE and 5g to live in a world without social media.
With the prices of hardware recently, I think we’re headed towards re-using old tech for a long time. I’m a professional programmer, and I’m still on my machine from 2018 with no fucking chance of upgrade for the forseeable future. Not even fucking ram. I was going to upgrade to 32gb , but ram prices skyrocketed right when I was about to buy some.
Join us! Your skills can help us wrest back control of modern smart appliances so that they operate with buttons rather than IoT. I’m sure someone in the community will swap you some RAM for your work. I just grabbed a new PC before I saw everything going to crap, and my 2016 machine is still kicking…
With the prices of hardware recently, I think we’re headed towards re-using old tech for a long time. I’m a professional programmer, and I’m still on my machine from 2018 with no fucking chance of upgrade for the forseeable future. Not even fucking ram. I was going to upgrade to 32gb , but ram prices skyrocketed right when I was about to buy some.
Join us! Your skills can help us wrest back control of modern smart appliances so that they operate with buttons rather than IoT. I’m sure someone in the community will swap you some RAM for your work. I just grabbed a new PC before I saw everything going to crap, and my 2016 machine is still kicking…