I don’t disagree with the sentiment of the article. But it really does seem to be dependent on the type of work you’re doing. In 2000, I started writing plugins

I don’t disagree with the sentiment of the article. But it really does seem to be dependent on the type of work you’re doing. In 2000, I started writing plugins for Final Cut Pro. You could write “real time” plugins for it! That meant you were working in YCbCr 4:2:2 at 320x240 and 30 frames per second (so quarter-sized frame, with 2/3rds the data that an RGB frame would carry and half as often). 22 years later, I’m still writing such plugins, but on the top-end systems you get multiple streams of 8K uncompressed RGB video at 60fps and you can play back in real time. Some things really have gotten significantly faster. But yeah, using a web browser to do normal tasks like display emails is insanity and very very wasteful.