Subj : Re: Am I the only one dumpster diving ?
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Arelor
Date : Thu May 26 2022 17:08:50

  Re: Re: Am I the only one dumpster diving ?
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to boraxman on Thu May 26 2022 07:01 am

 > -=> boraxman wrote to claw <=-
 > 
 >  bo> There are many arguments for upgrading, for new software, but our
 >  bo> society is built upon rampant consumption and we do a bad job of
 >  bo> repurposing old equipment, or re-engineering it, or adapting software
 >  bo> to run on it.
 > 
 > And by "Society", you mean "Economy".
 > 
 > 
 > 

I think he means Society.

It is not California who is convincing kids to use Electron based
videoconference applications for chatting which require more RAM than I have
available.

Software developers routinely throw more hardware in to solve software issues
because it helps them code faster. Making a web application may be hard if you
work from scratch, but it you throw a heavy framework for the task you will
have it done in a week! The only drawback is that the user will need 2 GB of
RAM to move the applicationinstead of 150 MB, but who cares about the user?

ON the other hand we demand more and more eye candy on our computers and won't
settle for writting reports using a terminal if we can use a GUI application,
even if running the GUI application needs us to replace an old functional
computer.

Of course Sillicon Valley leviathans are making the issue worse by producing
shitty software that requires you to replace working gear to run it, but this
goes so far beyond the realm of Economics (the study of exchanging a goods and
services). It is about people not being able to function with old tech that
works fine because we have gone lazy and our expectations are greedy.

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