"Windows 95 was 30 MB" is such an ignorant, obnoxious, trite take. a triple buffered framebuffer (which you want for smooth scrolling) for my 4K display is 70 MB in *pixels alone*. Obviously a complete webpage with precomposed textures would take more.https://twitter.com/julienPauli/status/1042113172143067138 …
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Slack should not eat 10 GB of RAM, but if you make bad faith comparisons like that, you're worse than actual luddites. Luddites had good points on labor versus capital, you're just pointlessly whining
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I'm sorry, my patience for lack of even a back-of-the-envelope validation of tech nostalgia rants runs very low these days
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Are you mixing things up out of anger ? You're missing the point, and you're making things even more confusing. User has one goal, smooth years ago, sluggish or buggy today. Of course I'm nostalgic when buying a bus ticket at a kiosk today takes 3 whole minutes.
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