Have you ever considered the way enshittification has crept into your local compute stack?
Think about application and code bloat.
Technical Debt is expensive to fix... and with cpu, memory, and storage in abundance... then there is little reason for them to address optimization.
This is also a form of enshittification, because you could be taking advantage of nearly infinite compute power, but instead we have Electron apps, and web browsers eating memory and CPU when they are even partially active.
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@thegibson I'm sure then the Climate Apocalypse comes, computing will be forced to make do by cleaning up the technical debt. 🙂
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It's similar to energy use: if there is plenty (or anyway it's cheap), we don't think about how much we use, and our stuff gobbles up energy and we think that's normal.
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The "why are the AWS bills so high?" conversation might creep into some shops when things get out of hand.
@thegibson all the time. I oscillate between avoidance strategies and #deshittification by rolling my own alternatives.
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