But have you considered the absolute existential horror of a user clicking a link and a whole new page loads (modulo cached elements) rather than an entirely client side routing? Such a horrific concept of JavaScript as an enhancement would let all varieties of user agents from text message previews to web crawlers to AI agents handle the page without running an entire JavaScript engine and JavaScript resources from all your friendly data collection services.

The thought frankly horrifies me. I hate an accessible and efficient web!

Any sort of online service you're logged into is going to have your IP and account correlated with a timestamp. Dropbox, GDrive, and even your e-mail provider. While a device identifier might be more useful it's not like the lack a device ID will keep you from being tracked.

Drink your verification can.

My 2011 Mac mini nods sagely. It runs even better today than when it was new because I put an SSD in it a few years ago.

I own a Sony Magic Link and you are 100% correct. The UI is the worst sort of point-n-click adventure game memes. Not only do you have to guess what visual elements actually do something you need to figure out what functionality they represent. The spacial metaphor is insipid because it takes a lot of taps to get from one "room" to another.

None of this is helped by how slow the Magic Link is. Supposedly the DataRover 840 was much faster but I've never owned one to tell for sure.

The UI of the Newton MessagePad (I own several) is far from perfect but makes much more sense than MagicCap. It also requires fewer taps to reach different functions.

Every once in a while I'll pull out my Magic Link but the insanity of the UI just inspires me to put it back in a box.

The thing with General Magic is they were Mac team members without a lot of imagination. They thought the next GUI environment had to encompass the real world as the connected world. The problem statement is solid. Unfortunately they looked at the MAC’s desktop metaphor and decided the next logical step was to add legs to the metaphor and bridge the gap to the real world.

I have a Sony Magic Linknthat doesn’t boot.

Token generation is nominally bandwidth limited. Prefill/prompt processing is nominally compute limited.

For CPU inference on old hardware I don't think q4 offers any benefit over q8 since the AVX unit doesn't support such small floats. I don't even think AVX supports 4-bit int math. IIRC AVX2 does.

Both North Korea and Israel are notable (compared to space) for their dense oxygen rich atmospheres, accessible large reservoirs of water, access to solvents/lubricants, and a generally "shirt sleeves" environment for workers. Asteroids, the Moon, and deep space don't really have these things. So you're not just bootstrapping an industrial facility at those locations but all the basic infrastructure that industry requires to exist.

With space manufacturing the first widget out of a factory costs trillions of dollars. There's also few if any raw materials that are far more abundant in space than here on Earth (at orders of magnitude smaller cost).

It is and it doesn't. You only get into disk writes if the system starts paging out to disk.

No one can reliably track uses of "it", and definitely not multiple uses, so please take your time to qualify everything explicitly. Currently I have no idea what each "it" is referring to.

Reads off your SSD don't age it prematurely.

I have a retail copy of Photoshop 7 I bought decades ago with hard earned money. A full copy of Photoshop then was hundreds of dollars. I still use it to this day.

I learned Photoshop well enough back in the day to do cool stuff and make a few bucks on the side doing graphic design. I'm not a professional graphic designer at all so it never made sense for me to get on the version treadmill. Even today it does everything I need and more.

Adobe got paid for the work they did. I've gotten incredible value out of my purchase since I've used it so long and the cost has amortized over decades.

Subscriptions imply change. I don't necessarily want change. If I buy something that suits my needs...it already suits my needs. Adding more shit isn't necessarily a boon. Changing the behavior or look with a new update is infuriating. This is especially true of complex software that takes time to learn.

For a developer selling a subscription the strategy of locking up data is entirely rational. They'll keep getting money no matter what they do because they're holding my data hostage. It's a model I have no interest in.

Even better is when they decide to shut down or get bought out. If the subscription shuts down there's no amount of money I can pay to get it back.

I don't know what you mean, I mean I made a million dollars with only a small hundred million dollar loan from my dad! This sort of entrepreneurship is available to anyone in America.¹

¹ Terms and conditions apply.

The propagation of this type of mindset is more damaging than the gambling.

how so? because people don't like when you move into their area and buy your way into everything? Displacing the people around? The "artisanal farmer" with 100M cap investment into gear.

People who don't shun and humiliate these silverspooners are more damaging than the gambling.