Microsoft vows to make Windows 11 fly on 8GB RAM amid memory shortage

I feel like they might want to start with something a little simpler, like landing the first humans on Jupiter or making Windows 11 fly on 1024GB RAM.

Compressed CCRAM

Pretty sure they know too. They’ve simply arranged things so that they will still come out well ahead even so.

The fact that we as a species have not already collectively decide to enforce the rule that once you get to $100M you get a “YOUR DID IT” trophy and a spot on a private tropical island where you can do hookers and blow for the rest of your life while any further increases in your wealth are nationalised is proof we are, in fact, a bunch of fools.

Been on Mastodon for several years. Just now trying Lemmy.

The one thing “AI” truly excels at.

True, but that reeks of victim blaming. The spammers are to blame here, not the mathematical inevitability of antispammers being behind on the arms race. Also, fucking AI.

Someone asked me a couple of weeks ago why the New Zealand Green Party’s answer to all of our problems seemed to be taxes on rich people and big corporations. I said that it was because 40 years of neoliberalism had given us an economy that balanced a rise for the 1% with a fall for the 99%, and we should start trying to address that gently and legally before the 99% remember that a guillotine is 18th Century technology and can be easily constructed in a garage.

The end of capitalism isn’t too far off, the way things are going. And it’s going to be messy as hell.