i wish more people understood that 'exponential' is a rate of change and no value can be said to be 'exponentially' larger or smaller compared to any another value.
I mean, I’m sure that he accidentally a whole word, but I do find it entirely possible to increase response times by leaving older systems. There was a certain immediacy to older tech that simply doesn’t exist anymore. I just hope that they didn’t move to a recent version of Windows with forced updates and whatnot, or a recent version of Ubuntu which defaults to unattended updates.