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You can complain but if the inefficient sites work fine on 95% of modern computers it doesn't make business sense to optimize them. You can't run the most mini
by chpatrick 3y ago
You can complain but if the inefficient sites work fine on 95% of modern computers it doesn't make business sense to optimize them.
You can't run the most minimal current Linux kernel on a 30 year old laptop either.
- baz00 3y agoPeople really need to actually ask the users about this. I hear lots of frustration all the time and see end users with stacks of shit that barely work but it never gets upstream because the users think that's the status quo or are so burned out that they don't care any more. Of course various client telemetry frameworks say it sucks but if no one is complaining then of course it doesn't make business sense to optimise them and carry on making it slightly worse until someone finally does moan about it. But everything being crap is not an excuse to keep delivering more crap.
- alpaca128 3y agoThe sites may work fine on modern computers but many don't have a modern computer. Not to mention it affects battery life either way. > You can't run the most minimal current Linux kernel on a 30 year old laptop either. I wouldn't bet on that after seeing what some people have done with Gentoo. And you only need to go back 5-10 years to find devices failing to run many websites and electron apps smoothly. My old laptop has an i7 CPU from 2016 and couldn't keep up anymore. And even on my new hardware from 2022 many things feel a bit sluggish.
- accrual 3y ago> You can't run the most minimal current Linux kernel on a 30 year old laptop either. Not exactly the same, but I was able to run a fairly recent version of OpenBSD (6.x) on a 486 DX2-66 with 32MB of RAM this year. Not bad for a CPU from 1992 (32 years ago).