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I understand your feelings about modern software, but comparing computers to toasters sounds pointless to me

• nicce 5y ago
  Well, in these days even toasters can be computures to be fair, and I don’t like it.
• dijit 5y ago
  I’m not sure I agree. Computers as appliances used to be more true than it is today on significantly worse hardware. The “instant on”- of a commodore64 is a distant thing of the past but it needn’t be. One of the major reasons for systemd coming to prominence was boot times, so people do care. If your machine could start and stop in 500ms flat then it would fundamentally change the way you interact with it.
  • oblio 5y ago
    The Commodore 64 could do maybe 0.005% of what my PC can. Power comes with complexity. Simple power is genius and it's hard to scale that.
  • doublepg23 5y ago
    It seems like we went around boot times and went with sleep time. When was the last time you rebooted your phone?