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0 pointsmalfist3y ago0 comments

Is it though? You're probably running on something with plenty of spare clock cycles and extra RAM. It's not like end users are suddenly paying a real cost for extra ram usage when the next electron app comes along.

A couple hundred megabytes on a terabyte or larger harddrive? Who cares.

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danbruc3y ago

But why do I have those? My notebook could cost $10 if 640 kiB of RAM and 1 GB of storage were enough. I am of course not expecting that everything should work on a system from 30 years ago, we really made use of more powerful systems to do things that were impossible before, but I think we could still do a lot better.

malfistOP3y ago

Sure, but then your software would cost a lot more to develop and you'd have to pay for that. TANSTAAFL and all that.

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danbruc3y ago

malfistOP3y ago

Sure, but then your software would cost a lot more to develop and you'd have to pay for that. TANSTAAFL and all that.

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