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Optical PCIe 7.0 connection hits 128 GT/s

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mrweasel ◴[18 Jun 24 09:43 UTC] No.40715746[source]▶
An once that becomes generally available operating systems will eat the bandwidth in an instance and any speed-up to be gained on a desktop will be completely negated.

It seems like we're stuck at a pre-set level of latency, which is just within what people tolerate. I was watching a video of someone running Windows 3.11 and notice that the windows closes instantly, which on Windows 10 and 11 I've never seen there NOT be a small delay between the user clicking close and the window disappearing.

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1. abofh ◴[18 Jun 24 10:28 UTC] No.40716021[source]▶
Part of me wonders if this is the natural outcome of things. The world gets faster, so we're more efficient, now we have more memory and time in a datacenter, let's do it on our servers so we can charge a monthly fee! That works, but now things are slow until the next boost (say bandwidth/storage/whatever) - now we're more efficient, let's shove ads on it, there's plenty of end-user CPU cycles we can profit from.

It seems like enshittification is not just the inevitable outcome, but almost desirable (from a profit standpoint), and thus things getting faster for you only help me (the vendor) if I can extract _more_ value by things being faster - otherwise why would I spend money to make things better?