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> on an old or cheap Android device. My Core-i5 24GB of RAM desktop PC that's 8 years old can pretty much do anything I used to do in 2016, except smoothly run

by pmdr 2y ago

> on an old or cheap Android device. My Core-i5 24GB of RAM desktop PC that's 8 years old can pretty much do anything I used to do in 2016, except smoothly run React websites, some of which are verging on becoming unusable. This is nuts. People should stop using their M3 Pro Macbook as a benchmark for what's 'fast enough.'

cosmic_cheese 2y ago
“Works on my machine” in general is a huge problem in dev culture. I understand the desire to work on machines with lots of power and memory with a nice high res display and fiber connection. It makes the experience a great deal nicer. Even so, we should be keeping old and/or thoroughly mediocre devices around and testing on them periodically so we don’t succumb to illusions of good performance.