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points by xp84 1 day ago | 0 comments
You put it so much better than I could have. It's as though software bloat is just destined to run slightly higher than Moore's Law. A Mac SE/30 with a spinning hard drive, a PowerBook G4 (also with a HDD), a 7th Gen Intel PC, an M1 Mac. All of them can open a basic app like Calendar in... 3-5 seconds. Even with nothing else running. Yet each one in that list is orders of magnitude more powerful than the previous by every measure.
[–] luckman212 12 hours ago
The best part? (to continue with the calendar example)... It's still basically a nightmare trying to make calendars behave the way you want/expect once you've got more than a couple. Most people give up and have some cobbled-together mess, some duplicates, some with broken sync, events in the wrong timezone, invites to recurring meetings from 2 jobs ago that can't be deleted, etc.
[–] inquist 18 hours ago
s/destined/designed
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