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by nr2x 1144 days ago
Does it matter if you have no choice but to use said software?
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Not your fault obviously, but I meant it matters in the sense that part of the problem also lies with the companies and industry as a whole shipping highly inefficient SW and having the solution be "just buy a new MacBook with Mx chip to run a videochat app bro!!11"

Honestly shitty SW should get slapped with an environmental TAX just like motor vehicles. I remember running Skype video calls and Pidgin chats in ~2005 on a 1.2 GHz single core CPU with 512MB of RAM.

I doubt those were group video, which is a much more data intensive problem. The quality is also much better these days.