FK France. I love the country, but I hate how the government of France is against freedom and privacy. France has also the most Internet restrictions in place of all EU countries.
75 procent of X posts are fake and generated by bots. You kinda see the same happening with YouTube and Facebook as well. I rather have less context but higher quality comments, posts and threads.
I actually just recently upgraded to new hardware, but you're right I myself (as a programmer) was actually using not long ago 15 year old PC. Well the motherboard, case and PSU was 15 years old. I upgraded the GPU along the way, twice in total. And I added more ram. And 2 years ago I upgraded to the CPU for 10 euros/dollars using some used server Xeon processor that was compatible with my PLGA1366 socket.
So actually depending on your needs and small upgrades, you can use old hardware for years. And yes I was still playing games on this 15 year old desktop PC. I just recently upgraded like I said, because mainly I was limited to only SATA 2 and USB 2.0 connectors, so .. that. And yes my CPU became the bottleneck for my GPU as well. And I was not able to use NVMe drives of course or anything modern to that regard.
EDIT: And my fuses always tripped when I switched on the old computer. Awh well, after 15 years it was time to upgrade.
Anyhow, you're right something is not going great. Although I upgraded to a great Threadripper platform now and we do have great AMD laptop processors. It could have multiple causes:
Doing below 4nm, 3nm, and 2 nm will give more and more issues, we are basically hitting a wall. Since quantum effects are increasingly becoming an issue at these small scales. Especially with high NA.
Monopoly of AMD in the CPU market, Intel is lacking behind. On the long term this could mean less innovation.
Inflation; due to costs rising, people are less willing to invest that much money on their (new) computers and hardware. Since the article refers to "average results of all Windows PC tests across the globe every two weeks". It could be as simple as people having less purging power to all buy new chips. And most people are just "fine" with using 5, 10 or even 15 year old hardware as their daily driver.
Disclaimer: I'm working in the Lithography sector at ASML.
You want the truth? Setup OPNsense firewall on your network. Add EasyPrivacy, EasyList, AdGuard List and other blocklists to the Unbound DNS service on the OPNsense server.
Then configure your DHCP to use the OPNsense router/firewall IP (eg. 192.168.1.1) as DNS server in DHCP provisioned computers on your LAN network.
This is how I do it and it's an enterprise setup, which works and scales really well.
MayWill