Is there a good reason for us to have powerful computers?

Is there a good reason for us to have powerful computers?

Vidya

So we can kill ourselves with powerful AI.

>good reason

Running VMs

Some people like to play video games, so yeah that's a pretty good reason for those people.

cuda calculations

epeen. mostly epeen.

I have an Intel atom that takes care of most of my pc uses, and an atx desktop for vidia. Most people would be fine on an mtk6753 or SD615 2bh.

>epeen. mostly epeen.
This. If I can run firefox then the laptop is powerful enough.

Being efficient is another matter

I agree.

I wonder what OS stallman runs on his olpc.
Hurd maybe?

>I hate people who enjoy things I dislike

I bet you're a freetard

He runs Trisquel with a deblobbed Ubuntu Linux kernel on an X60 he used to use Gnewsense I believe

Not really. I have an eeePC circa 2009 that I still use regularly for coding/work away from my desk and on the go. With a minimal installation and xmonad as a WM, it does everything I really need, although the small form keyboard is kind of a pain. I do sort of wish it had a SSD for boot time, though.

I remember him using Gnewsense a long time ago, but when did he stop pushing hurd?

>hate
out of nowhere

He never pushed for Hurd, he saw no need as it was incomplete and you could run Linux entirely free

The only reason my computer is "powerful" Is for video games. The only reason the rest of my computer is even "moderate" is that many websites are unreasonably taxing.

If it weren't for either of those things, I'd still be comfortably rocking my 8 year old computers. I imagine that's true for lots of people.

No. Only governments should have powerful computers.

Science, math, construction, and engineering jobs need powerful PCs to make their work faster and more efficient. Video game players can go suck a dick.

I'll pass that along to the video game playing scientists, mathematicians, construction workers and engineers.

Streaming 4K, 3D porn with simulcast vibrating pocket pussy output.

This kind of. Eventually. Billions of people walking around with their phones out because they're not near a computer. Any noteworthy event in meatspace is swarmed on by people with their camera phones, just as white blood cells descend on a virus. If an even is not recorded digitally it is discarded from the hive consciousness.

When you see a person whip out a phone to record something completely mundane, or you do it yourself, or you go online to connect to the hive mind for hours at a time to reestablish a current connection with the public consciousness, think about what it means to be a person. Are we even really people anymore? Or are we the sensory organs of an organism we created?

welp, sounds like I'm drunk enough.

At first there was one computer and many terminals, and now everyone has their own multiple computers, but I can sense the winds changing to something collective again

When working with software like gradle or other computational expensive stuff, better performance means less time spent waiting. I have to work with an Intel q9300 at my job and get paid about 200 bucks every month for waiting. But my Institute isn't interested in upgrading my hardware.

Video games are a good reason.

You'll pass that on to the dick sucking video game playing scientists, mathematicians, construction workers and engineers.