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by rwc 2255 days ago
640K is more memory than anyone will ever need on a computer.
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Well if my browser, music player and chat app weren't taking literal gigabytes of ram each it might be enough ...

Our computers are millions of times more powerful than back in the days but somehow my 2018 macbook pro crawls to a halt if slack displays more than 2 gifs at the same time.

Anyway, I think we're artificially creating needs that aren't needs in the first place. "b-bu-but how am I supposed to telework from the subway if I don't have my 5g =(", "I can't even stream youtube 8k videos from the bus =("