When it comes to technology the only winning move is not to play. We hit a peak where our intrinsic humanity and tech were in a proper relationship roughly in the mid to late 2000s, and everything afterwards has been either gimmicks or completely worthless and equally harmful surveillance tools under this or that guise. This AI grift is no different. Seriously, just check out from tech. It's meaningless to buy or consume any of it. Many tech companies will probably go under or consolidate to a profound degree in the near future because everything worth inventing and having has already been done. This is why gimmicks like AI, that Apple VR googles shit and so on and on is being pushed by the companies. The gravy train has run out, it actually is over and that's great.
I feel strongly about this. I have an old IBM Thinkpad (R500) from circa 2011 or so with 2Gb of RAM and a Centrino Duo CPU with Linux on it and I sometimes use it just for shits and giggles, and it works perfectly as a multimedia and Internet machine. There is literally no difference whatsoever from my Acer running Ryzen something-something and 16Gb of RAM I bought last year. There is nothing theoretical about this to me. Unless you're a genuine retard who still uses Windows and plays vidya your tech journey is essentially over and AT WORST inexpensive to a profound degree. We're in an Apple situation, the Iphone situation, where only the dumb will "upgrade" like the stupid cattle that they are and buy new hardware when Microsoft or some other grifter company demands it.