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Imagine only one thing: the web of the 90s/00s with today's hardware and bandwidth.
A wet dream. But actually I loaded some pages faster with a 14k4 baud modem than some pages with 5Gbit today. With 47228 frameworks and captchas and ....
With every iteration of higher power, programs went shittier, more clogged and devs grew lazy.
The more time goes by, the more I'm interested about software and hardware that tries to do more with less.
Ex: ESP-based projects and products, Meshtastic/MeshCore, eInk-based displays for lower energy consumption, etc
I feel ya. I recently did a shopping-list-app. Wonderfully minimalistic, a simple php-backend and a super simple watch-app as a bonus. And I got sad somehow how superfast the shit is and could even sync when Theres no 4g or 5g. Why does everything has to have 5 updates per minute and each one adding another thing noone wanted just because...subscriptions. Until the simple initial thing is a bloatware-abomination.
I'm tired, boss....
Abstraction layers will be the death of us.