Subj : Re: KICQ as an "Old New I
To   : Tracker1
From : Arelor
Date : Sun Sep 05 2021 08:26:18

  Re: Re: KICQ as an "Old New I
  By: Tracker1 to Arelor on Fri Sep 03 2021 06:39 pm

 > On 7/20/2021 1:45 AM, Arelor wrote:
 > > My condolences for downloading and installing Discord.
 > 
 > > Don't forget to send your RAM to the hospital so they can use a
 > > rape kit on it after Discord is finished with it.
 > 
 > Every computer in my home has at least 32gb in it.
 > 
 > Discord sitting at 287mb here, which is pretty high for what it is...
 > Though I'm sitting with 40GB available, and about to drop in another
 > 64gb with a new video card when it gets in tomorrow.

Heh, you are necroing an old thread.

Besides, it is awesome that the weakest of your computers has more RAM that
every computer in my house combined, including smartphones. However, some of us
have a tight budget and make do with scrapyard computers, and 250+mb is
somethig you DO notice when the rest of what you are doing in the same computer
takes less than 400 mb combined.And you notice it more when you are using
computers with 1 or 2 Gb of RAM.

My most powerful computer is from 2007, and it was obsoleted already.

There is a lot of talk of being socially inclusive and whatnot in the IT
industry, but something I often hear is:

"We should deprecate this technology because nobody is using it"

or

"Let's make this thing a requirenment, everybody already has it, after all"

The irony is that they end up deprecating technology because they don't use it
anymore despite the fact there are lange numbers of people in less wealthy
countries depending on the now deprecated technology. They don't care if
somebody from Africa's screwed up because their lame software now requires more
RAM than the whole village can afford.

Also, Linux distributions were deprecating CD releases in favor of DVD releases
"because nobody uses CDs anymore" despite the fact CD production was ON THE
RISE WORLDWIDE because lots of poor countries prefer CDs over DVDs due to
price.

So it seems to me the IT industry is inclusive until the time comes to include
people with no money or resources. Those we can screw up.

So yes, it is awesome that you can afford to have 32 Gb of RAM on your weakest
computer. But that is not an argument to make to a guy whose pro-computer fleet
has no computer with more than 2.



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