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[-] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 month ago

I'll keep saying this: my 2009 i5 750 still feels as fast as my 2 years old workstations and can play almost everything I want with the 1060.

[-] kamen@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

I paid for the whole amount of RAM, I'm gonna use the whole amount of RAM.

/s

Joke aside, the computer I used a little more than a decade ago used to take 1 minute just to display a single raw photo. I'm a liiiittle better off now.

[-] akincisor@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago

More like:

You paid for more RAM, so I'll use whole amount of RAM.

-- All software developers

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they're actually slower than windows vista, there is said it.

[-] Narauko@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Vista honestly wasn't as bad as we all said/remember, but it was the start of Windows optimization downturn. It worked great on top of the line systems with tons of power, and was the best looking Windows Microslop ever developed.

It just happened to also coincide with the start of netbooks and low power computers going mainstream, and marketing thought that the F1 requiring OS should also be sold on a 3 door hatchback with 60 horsepower.

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[-] wulrus@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

I bought a desktop PC for a little over 2k in late 2011, and still use it. I'm a back-end developer, and certainly I would like to be able to upgrade my 16 GB RAM to 32 GB in an affordable way.

Other than that, it's perfectly fine. IDE, a few docker containers, works.

And modern gaming is a scam anyway. Realistic graphics do not increase fun, they just eat electricity and our money. Retro gaming or not at all.

Imagine how things were if they were built to be maintained for 15+ years.

[-] Cort@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

2011 means it's probably DDR3, which is still fairly affordable

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[-] bss03@infosec.pub 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The whole industry needs rebuilt from the foundations. GRTT with a grading ring that tightly controls resources (including, but not limited to RAM) as the fundamental calculus, instead of whatever JS happens to stick to the Chome codebase and machine codes spewed by your favorite C compiler.

[-] Undearius@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 month ago

It took me a long time to figure out that "GRTT" is "Graded Modal Type Theory". Letting others know, if they want to look into it further.

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[-] Flames5123@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 month ago

For my home PC, sure. Running some windows apps on my Linux machine in wine is a little weird and sluggish. Discord is very oddly sluggish for known reasons. Proton is fine tho.

But for my work? Nah. My M3 MacBook Pro is a beast compared to even the last Intel MacBook. Battery is way better unless you’re like me and constantly running a front end UI for a single local service. But without that, it can last hours. My old one could only last 2 meetings before it started dying.

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[-] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 month ago

phones.

Using a smartphone from 5 years ago with modern updates feels worse than the first iPhone.

[-] Shanmugha@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Yup. Worst part? We've produced people who make this justified: users and idiotic managers (really hard for me to estimate which of them are bigger source of shit). And we keep producing them

[-] chunes@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

A decade? Try 25 years

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