> We’d been building what we liked to call a “procrastination engine,” named Sloth Surf. The app worked like this: A user who had the urge to procrastinate on the internet could come to the site, input their procrastination preferences, and let an AI agent do it for them. Want to waste half an hour on social media? Read sports message boards for the afternoon? Let Sloth Surf take care of the scrolling for you, our pitch went, and then it can email you a summary—all while you get back to work (or don’t, we’re not your boss).
This guy's living a delusional, fantasy business boy lifestyle where he has hardworking fictional employees working tirelessly on his poop-on-a-stick idea, while literally calling him in his free time to tell him it's a great idea and a valid thing to put his time into. What are YOU doing?
Shitty software killed netbooks. That Intel Atom was more than enough to accomplish the moon landing, or produce an indie game like cave story, or run a recording studio to make music. But people didn't want to do those things, they wanted to play Roblox and watch YouTube.
Netbooks are work machines, and as usual, people don't wanna work.
I literally recorded an album using Ableton Live 8 (or 9?) and a bunch of synth VSTs on an Acer One netbook, with an AMD C-50 CPU and 4GB of RAM and a 128GB ssd internal drive.
It had amazing performance for its size at the time...that is, until the absolutely underpowered fan was unable to cool it down and it would inevitably shut down. Or the battery would die after just half an hour of usage.
Once it melted, I tested a few atom-based netbooks and general performance was abysmal, mostly due to the 5400rpm hard drive they almost universally sported at the time.
Moved to a polycarbonate 2010 macbook. Of course, it was four time the price of the aforementioned Acer netbook. But that thing is still trucking to this day, still retaining nearly 80% of the original battery charge.
