Programmer Humor

Yeah, my Xperia 1 (Android 3.1) still runs fluid with it's 100 MB of RAM and storage. While my Leaf2 e-reader lags in a uptodate LineageOS, despite having 10x more CPU and 20x more RAM.

I bought a desktop PC for a little over 2k in late 2011, and still use it. I'm a back-end developer, and certainly I would like to be able to upgrade my 16 GB RAM to 32 GB in an affordable way.

Other than that, it's perfectly fine. IDE, a few docker containers, works.

And modern gaming is a scam anyway. Realistic graphics do not increase fun, they just eat electricity and our money. Retro gaming or not at all.

Imagine how things were if they were built to be maintained for 15+ years.

I paid for the whole amount of RAM, I'm gonna use the whole amount of RAM.

/s

Joke aside, the computer I used a little more than a decade ago used to take 1 minute just to display a single raw photo. I'm a liiiittle better off now.

For my home PC, sure. Running some windows apps on my Linux machine in wine is a little weird and sluggish. Discord is very oddly sluggish for known reasons. Proton is fine tho.

But for my work? Nah. My M3 MacBook Pro is a beast compared to even the last Intel MacBook. Battery is way better unless you’re like me and constantly running a front end UI for a single local service. But without that, it can last hours. My old one could only last 2 meetings before it started dying.

phones.

Using a smartphone from 5 years ago with modern updates feels worse than the first iPhone.

The whole industry needs rebuilt from the foundations. GRTT with a grading ring that tightly controls resources (including, but not limited to RAM) as the fundamental calculus, instead of whatever JS happens to stick to the Chome codebase and machine codes spewed by your favorite C compiler.

Actually I can, because I use Linux.

Yup. Worst part? We've produced people who make this justified: users and idiotic managers (really hard for me to estimate which of them are bigger source of shit). And we keep producing them