• rarsamx@lemmy.ca
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      4 months ago

      It’s not only commercial software.

      We’ve come to expect more from our computers and as our processors gain more power we find ways to use it. I’m running things on a laptop that before would have required a workstation. I wanted to run an LLM on an old desktop, and 8GB RAM wasn’t enough.

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        True, but one of the biggest things we’re using that power for recently is “why bother optimizing?” With splashes of “can we obtain any more data from the user?”

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      If ya’ll were operating on a system designed to stay functional for 40+ years you would not like that system.

      Sure would. I’m sick of the move at all and break things in modern software ecosystems. Were things this bad in CLI land too, until POSIX?