Oddbean new post about login | logout Companies are very very slowly killing technology. Ask anyone in the industry for 20+ years. This shit really ain’t that much better than what we had in the late 90’s. Just prettier - maybe. Better monetized - definitely. nostr:note1p7r27up6epetrus3u7mfwpqjledj5u6mew07yh89rrf6claq4j4sxam25d
And people are over here on Nostr whining about gif buttons for clients. 😅
Gif buttons for clients will save the mobile OS scene 🔥
It’s no shade at anyone developing here. But they’re living like 7-10 layers of abstraction away from the hardware now, with fewer and fewer people who understand the bottom layers. Jonathan Blow did a great talk on this. Of course there’s a lot of low hanging things to bitch about too. Like, what does word do now that it didn’t do in 1998…..
Ill have to find that talk.
Here ya go bro. https://youtu.be/ZSRHeXYDLko?si=8h9sC_s0zzC_Sv3X
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This is very true. We are not programming PDP-11s anymore. I think compilers are far far better now though so we can still kinda pretend that we are, as long as we are aware of 2 or 3 footguns that compilers aren't really going to be able to save us from, things like cache coherency, stack versus heap, core pinning, context switching, the costs of data copies across threads, malloc speed, ... ok well actually maybe there are more footguns than I was thinking 'cause I'm just getting started.
And none of that code truly has control over the hardware. The OS can’t give it to you anymore, unless you’re doing embedded. And even the hardware isn’t really running the way it says it is, with out of order execution, speculative fetching, oh nvm.
It’s true the core Excel, Word, Email, Adobe are all basically unchanged. The big difference is the mobile wave, which means no one is ever really off work! 😂
Remote work is capitalism’s greatest con on humanity in my generation. Imagine being essentially on call 24/7 without pay…
I don’t have to imagine it 😀
I transitioned from remote contractor to on-site employee around the beginning of the year. The boss still called me at home off the clock. iPhone’s focus modes came in real handy. Muted him and all my coworkers and it comes on automatically when I clock out. No more.
FOSS will replace all these fiat retard corporations for those who aren’t walled garden zombies. Already has really.
FOSS is great, but I still don’t trust Linux on my desktop, nor will I use Firefox. And I’m a fairly competent user. So I’d say the victory is limited, and has been for a very long time. We will see if things like the Steam Deck and Proton make a dent in the long haul. Maybe.
How do you feel about grapheneOS?
Fundamentally? I think it’s a fantastic project that serves a major need, and positively influences people who are completely unaware GrapheneOS exists. On a personal level? I’d rather carry a flip phone. I felt like I’d traded a $1000 Pixel in for a phone I could’ve gotten for $300 unlocked for prepaid. I use my phone for 6-10 hours a day though, and need everything integrated with my PCs, cloud synced, etc. I actually use all the “invasive” features of my phone, so it was a jarring experience that left a bad taste in my mouth. I don’t blame Graphene for that though - that’d be stupid. Those features come at a cost. But I don’t have time to monkey around at work - when I take a picture it needs to be on my MacBook by the time I walk back to the office, among other things.
Great, honest review. Thank you. I’d love to see a surge in FOSS builds funded by wealthy Bitcoiner’s (like open sats) as NGU works its magic.
We have a better price than that 😉 > https://phi.company/daisy
What do you trust on your desktop? Openbsd?
I use Windows 11 Release Channel and macOS. I haven’t had to reinstall either in years due to software issues, and never had hardware support issues. FreeBSD is something I would really love to use more. It has the same issues as Linux imo, but worse though. If I was building a purpose built machine to run just that, I’d jump on it. Both are too flaky on any hardware I’ve gotten my hands on to trust for making money (on desktop). On the server, they’re both kings.
Chips are faster & smaller. Memory is cheaper & larger. Internet pipe is faster, bigger & available everywhere. The best we got was the smart phone which was around the late naughties. From then on technology advances were focused on capturing your eyeballs & wallet.