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Microsoft wants devs to build Electron AI apps on Windows 11, says no need of native code, despite RAM concerns (www.windowslatest.com)
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Electron apps are ruining the Windows 11 experience, and even the JavaScript creator has warned against ‘rushed web UX over native,’ but it doesn’t look like that will change Microsoft’s plans. In a post on X and other places, Microsoft reaffirmed its commitment to AI in Windows 11 and encouraged Electron developers to consider using AI in their apps.

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[–] 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

-> …profit?

They're already hitting the storage side of things pretty hard.

https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1rumwph/hp_laptop_falsely_advertises_having_1_tb_of/

Buy up all of the hardware on the planet to have a monopoly on compute/storage -> rent the compute/storage to everyone who can't buy it.

See also: Housing

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Posting scammy Amazon links feels like cheating when having these discussions, but I kinda get where they're coming from. The fact that people can try to sell a laptop with only 64gb disk is absolutely mental to me, because that's not even enough to let the BASE OS run normally and update reliably. And that's before you start doing anything on it.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    I'm so glad I bought my laptop when I did recently, with plenty of RAM and storage. Just in time before that stuff becomes impossible to find or impossibly unaffordable.

    This generation of hardware will probably be the plateau. The decline and fall is just around the bend. Maybe another generation of CPUs before those go for bust, too. They can rent out GPUs, RAM, and storage, but as far as I'm aware the CPU needs to be local on the device. At least, a CPU needs to be on the device...

    I don't think it's a coincidence that this trend is occuring just as NPUs are starting to hit the market. Those chips are too powerful to let the plebeians own and use without restriction, in the corpo's view.

    Whether a better system replaces this one after it falls, or we enter an era where consumer hardware is a thing of the past, remains to be seen. Maybe when the AI bubble bursts, tech companies will have to liquidate their data centers and secondhand servers will become cheap. That would do wonders for the fediverse and the decentralized web...

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