the spirit is weak. woe be the spirit. the body is weaker still. Siërra R
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Computers should either be huge room-filling monstrosities covered in blinkenlights and tape reels or cute beige toasters built into a keyboard that plug directly into a TV. Anything else is an offense against god and nature
@-pegasus notes that this ignores the "tiny pizza box with giant CRT that could kill several children if it fell on them sitting on top" form factor and that's an important one too.
Hmm, what about the quantum computers that look like overly fancy gold chandeliers?
Very fucked up and looks like something you'd find in a medium budget 90s movie adaptation of Snow Crash, I approve
personally i prefer option 3: a pizzabox or cube workstation with exotic power and an extremely large monitor.
what makes me really mad is that modern PCs are almost this. but microsoft has weighed down win NT with a thousant tons of surveillence and advertising shit that looks like the TV showing "ow my balls" in ideocracy. i put windows 10 on something last week and discovered it has fucking disney plus installed by default for some reason.
its really stupid because all of this is targeted to some boardroom's collective hallucination of a "non technical layperson" and my friends: non technical laypeople do not use computers anymore. they have phones now, sometimes an ipad or chromebook. a wintel desktop computer has the same demographics in 2022 as it did in 1991: managed corperate domains, and power user nerds. nobody else has one.
i just want to enjoy my turbo nutter bastard 8-core 64-bit workstation with 6GBs of ram dedicated to graphics alone in peace, but i am not allowed???
i will elaborate on this by saying that my current main computer is a 2009 mac mini, next to which i keep a combat knife in case it makes an unfamiliar noise
portability is a con, can't focus without being weighed down by the machine
