And then folks waste whole that power away, with embedded widgets applications.

My Android phone is more powerful than the four PCs I owned during the 1990 - 2002, 386SX - P75 - P166 - Athlon XP, all CPU, GPU, RAM and disk space added together.

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PlatoIsADisease 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I sit here with a laggy windows 11 computer with an Nvidia GPU and wonder: WTF

Its fine with Fedora, but Windows 11 is terrible.

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pjmlp 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Another one full of Webview2 instances because new hires cannot code anything else, apparently.

They aren't to blame, management is.

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josephg 3 hours ago | parent [-]

They all bear some of the blame.

Software engineers are hired to be the expert in their field. If you don't learn your craft, managers aren't going to do it for you.

Ideally new hires would be mentored by senior engineers who understand performance, and who can teach new hires how to write (and ship) good, performant software. But unfortunately that doesn't happen anywhere near as often as it should.

	▲	PlatoIsADisease 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Maybe. I had a director that fired anyone who wouldn't use Microsoft Power Automate. Previous to that director, I built stuff in python for 5 years under a different director.