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Bloat makes new software slower, not new features. This is confirmed by newer versions of Firefox or KDE that do not get as much slower as iOS, if at all.
by fsflover 5mo ago
Bloat makes new software slower, not new features. This is confirmed by newer versions of Firefox or KDE that do not get as much slower as iOS, if at all.
- tristanj 5mo ago> Bloat makes new software slower, not new features False. New features can make all other software slower. A clear example is Apple intelligence, a new feature which runs an LLM on-device and uses 1-2GB of RAM. The large amount of RAM it uses would otherwise be dedicated to apps instead as a cache. Enabling Apple intelligence makes every other app run slower. The Apple intelligence LLM also takes up 7 GB of storage on device. > newer versions of Firefox or KDE that do not get as much slower as iOS Newer versions of Firefox on iOS are approaching 400MB in download size, which is over a 10x increase from a decade ago.