Modern CPU and GPUs are the pinnacle of human creation. Each step, from design to build is resting on the foundation of decades of learnings and millions of hours of highly trained and educated individuals. All of this knowledge and talent is guarded. I don’t think you fathom the scale of which you discuss. At best we can play around as aggregated hobbiest and make perhaps a 1980s tech CPU.

Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.

This article doesnt mention this is a 4 year phase out period so this doesn’t happen all at once. I work in consumer electronics, some things will get easier, some harder, but generally it will all get more expensive.

For my trixie Debian boxes I just did a normal apt upgrade, rebooted, checked the kerenel with uname -r and confirmed it was 6.12.85-1. All set!

But google still gets paid. The advertisers will just pump money into Google’s coffers.

Debian also for decades but started with Slack in the late 90s. Hello Linux buddy!

This is happening in all aspects of consumer electronics. Broad platforms of hardware and software that is cheap enough to meet all the needs then just water it down for the ‘cheaper’ varieties. The consumer has no attention span so everything has to be fresh and totally new with more features every 1-4 years max. Ita what the consumer demands from complex systems so engineers just need to churn shit out as fast as possible and everyone suffers.

Exactly by design. It’s a lot cheaper to make people quit than to lay them off and pay a severance package.