Possibly preventing being locked out of the EU.

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In this particular case the RAM is part of the chip as an attempt to squeeze more performance. Nowadays, processors have become too fast but it’s useless if the rest of the components don’t catch up. The traditional memory architecture has become a bottleneck the same way HDDs were before the introduction of SSDs.

You’ll see this same trend extend to Windows laptops as they shift to Snapdragon processors too.

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I don’t currently use a VPN but my impression is that nowadays I’d be greeted with captchas everywhere, is that wrong?

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The creator is already compensated as of now. They earn more if a premium user watches their video than a free user with YouTube ads.

So the sponsor is giving them more money regardless of whether the user is premium or not, which for them is probably a good deal but for us it feels like being double charged.

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Doing that would require significantly more compute power, so there’s little economic incentive.

It’s a common trap for certain types of people to assume technology can fix problems that are inventive or socially driven.

In case people didn’t know what company he was referring to. /s

I think it’s more like a pattern observed in many of the blog posts about the reasons ex-employees left Google after a while.

To be honest I expected that was the case since the beginning.

The thing is, now that the game changed with machine learning techniques, there’s 0 incentive not to use it regardless of what previous deals existed in the past.

It’s not that they’re stupid, it’s that their incentives aren’t the same as the long term wellbeing of the company.

What’s the experience so far?

I see it more of a limitation, you don’t want your laptop to warm (and it shouldn’t in light use), but you want to cool it for the few times it does.