Totally agreed. A good example is as of next year - anyone on Windows 10 will stop receiving security updates. (unless they pay Microsoft for 'extended support', but even that is temporary. According to this, it's 60.95% of the worldwide PC market (as I type this). I'd assume that's fairly accurate based on Microsoft's telemetry reporting.richmond62 wrote: ↑Mon Nov 18, 2024 9:39 am ...but the point I was trying to make was that when Apple suddenly go "Yabba-Dabba-do; MacOS 69", that is NOT really anything except one thing in a long line of beta versions stretching all the way back to MacOS 10.0; and the numbers (and the slightly silly names) are just a way for them to manipulate the market so you rush out and buy a Macintosh machine with an ARM 57 processor and chuck your one with an ARM 56 processor in a landfill (Please bear in mind all the 'yakkety-yak' from Apple about the environment).
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The simple fact that I can run the latest Debian system on my Dad's 20 year old, 32-bit, steam-driven laptop gives the lie to the need to endlessly upgrade.
There are millions (upon millions?) of computers out there that won't actually update to Windows 11 (because Microsoft have specified you need to have a TPM chip on the motherboard).. because security... (highly doubtful this is the panacea Microsoft make it out to be, but anyway...), Windows 11 won't install.
(Yes, you can registry hack it - but subsequent updates mean you need to keep doing that).
This means there are going to be huge numbers of PCs going to landfill soon.
The shame is, any of those could run (and should be running) Linux as it'll keep them out of landfill and updated.
But it's all about buy buy buy, and people always want new - despite 'talking the talk' about the environment.
Together with IT departments across countless sections of industry, and bosses who can only think in the windows-paradigm - they'll not want to waste money on supporting older Windows 10 devices for a limited time. As Windows is 'the industry standard' (I really hate that phrase), nobody is likely going to spend the time to get an unknown Linux solution in place when they can't justify the time spent upon it as a valid business decision.
Apple are notorious for the same hardware turnover and software obsolescence. They'd claim that all rare-earth metals are shredded and reclaimed, however there are countless plastic cases, peripherals and things that can't be reused - all in landfill. Normally destined for China for disassembly and then ultimately India for landfill. Saying you support a device up to 5 years is not much good when you consider how large Apple is and the sheer volume of hardware turnover they go through.
A great example was this earlier post. Apple spend all that time and effort (even creating bespoke manufacturing processes for one type of machine), essentially making a piece of hardware jewellery, which is now only good as a stylised kitchen bin.
So although software is continuously being updated / upgraded - It's generally getting more and more sluggish, and requiring more and more demands of hardware.
There's little to not enough focus on optimisation of operating systems - sometimes there comes a point where you need to cut everything back and start again, otherwise it's just more code heaped on top of old dead code.
We have this a bit (a lot?) in the IDE of OXT and also in the engine.
One day.... one day, perhaps I'll finish writing my lexxer-passer-interpreter for a streamlined version. But I think I'll be in my 70's before that gets near to what even LCC 7 could do. By which point the use case for it will probably have ended - nobody will have any desire to use it when you can just ask your computer directly to do anything you want.
What we continue to see, and have seen in the past, with languages fading out of existence and being forgotten will happen with xTalk. Everything will likely be a cloud-driven AI, and over time as it gets better and better, that'll likely be able to produce anything you care to mention. (it's in it's infancy now, but given another 10-15 years - I'm sure it'll be the default location for your entire overseen, monitored and managed operating system).
It'll no doubt be under a subscription model too, so you'll have to pay monthly to use your computer. Unless (and I count myself among this number) you don't want to follow that trend at all, but my 'old-skool' approach will ultimately be frowned upon by people who know no differently and just accept the subscription model as the norm.
That approach of running your own computer 'on-premise' rather than cloud-based will be scorned and people likely being labelled 'out of touch' or 'tech dinosaurs' - the same as using an iPod with music you own on CD, copied to it. Rather than just logging into spotify and playing what is available in the cloud on spotify's servers instead.
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