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Are you suggesting that companies shouldn't make, and consumers buy, faster hardware?
by jonny_eh 6y ago
Are you suggesting that companies shouldn't make, and consumers buy, faster hardware?
- saagarjha 6y agoI'd suggest that someone who breaks into Slack HQ and secretly installs a underclocking kernel extension on all their developers' Macs wouldn't be a bad person.
- Wowfunhappy 6y agoThe consumers buy part, yes, if the only reason they need it is because software has become stupidly inefficient. All of this e-waste is not good for the planet, and manufacturing is a significant contributor to global warming. If consumers are replacing their computers to do things they couldn't do ten years ago, then great, that's a good use of resources! If consumers are replacing their computers because today's IM clients are 10x slower than the perfectly good clients we had ten years ago, that's a problem!
- BillinghamJ 6y agoThinking of speed in terms of processing capacity consumption, 10x would be unbelievably generous. It's realistically a LOT closer to 1000x
- CyberDildonics 6y agoNothing they said indicated that in any way.