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Latency is literally wasting resources

• layer8 10mo ago
  The point was that users mostly don’t care about wasting resources, but about usability. If usability wasn’t impacted, few people would care about resources being wasted. But since usability is very much impacted, people (rightfully) complain.
  • seba_dos1 10mo ago
    Wasting resources affects usability, and not just through latency.
    • layer8 10mo ago
      It doesn’t necessarily. A lot of resources are being wasted without impacting usability. Users only start noticing and complaining about it when it does.
      • seba_dos1 10mo ago
        It does, period. Less things can run in parallel, fans get louder, batteries live shorter and devices feel old years before they should, all of which directly affects usability. The user not noticing the direct cause or having enough resources to waste to at least perform some tasks acceptably doesn't change anything.