On Jul 30, 2025, at 15:33, Steve Litt via Talk <talk@lists.gtalug.org> wrote:
This might sound like first world elitism, but the 32 bit Pentium 4 was replaced by the 64 bit Pentium D in 2006.
All the world’s an Intel box? You might want to look at what AMD was up to around the time Intel was betting on the Itanium architecture.
I worry about climate change. I worry about systemd. I worry about the end of democracy. I worry about H5N1 bird flu. I worry about nuclear war. I worry about Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Amazon, and all the other monopolies increasingly owning our world. Obsolescence of 32 bit computers in 2038? Not so much.
A lot of infrastructure still runs on 32-bit, and Linux gets into some amazing places without bringing along a whole desktop environment. Your computer and phone will be fine, but I worry about wee systems the world takes for granted and forget totally about until that day in January 2038. Anthony