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The "sustainability-aware" part of me is getting increasingly frustrated at the state of Android. Not only the lack of support for "old" devices, but how unnecessarily difficult it is to build anything for old versions.
Then, here's the thing: every time I look into it, Google has come out with a new "recommended" way of doing things. and like seven new SDK versions.
Meanwhile, you can get c code from the seventies and make it work in quite a bunch of platforms...
2 days ago · 👍 hanzbrix, chirale, resetreboot, prk, jo, half_elf_monk
Smartphones are a toxic dumpster fire: a veritable turducken of shite, toxic chemicals, and radioactive waste from Chernobyl. I have a computer in my pocket that is so much more powerful than the thing on my desk in 2000, in 2005, or even in 2010; yet it *feels* less capable to me. I blame the web. Time to disband WHATWG, AKA the Browser Cartel. Time to go poking some holes in some big fluffy clouds. Gemini doesn't quite feel like the right thing (TM), but it's a stab in the right direction. · 1 day ago
MenuetOS ! that brings back memories! · 2 days ago
@drh3xx I believe we can build a better tomorrow, we just have to find a way to popularise it.
Most public service webpages I am required to use today by the government, could run in Gemini no problem, my online banking as well. Not saying it should, but it could and would probably be more secure. · 2 days ago
Projects like V2OS (back in the day) and MenuetOS really peak my interest too. There's definitely plenty of room for more alternative options out there on the OS front. Web Browsers and a few other classes of software have insane barriers to entry for new projects though either due to over all complexity, costs and/or reliance on IP/NDAs for full functionality. · 2 days ago
@hanzbrix thanks for that. Not sure we should just abandon everything and let it die though (just the mainstream stuff).
I'm finding OpenBSD and things like DWM/DMenu are a good fit for me. Atleast most of the performance "issues" with OBSD are either bring improved security or can be mitigated in the future somewhat as various locks are removed from the Kernel and multithreading improves. It's relatively light, unmaintained crap is pulled such as the Bluetooth stack, a clean and simple system with great documentation. · 2 days ago
@drh3xx Can confirm, this is what made me leave development as a profession and pursue other IT avenues. It is just as shit though.
Users (this include a majority of devs) as a whole don't really understand IT, not even on a turning it on/off level. They are partly to blame, as they will steer products in the most ridiculous directions.
Trying to force through features nobody but that specific person wants or actively wanting features that work against the system, after being told that fact numerous times, is par for the course.
Maybe we all just need to quit and let the systems die. · 2 days ago
In most companies they've lost track that the first enemy is complexity. Add in crunching and wanting to develop everything at insane speed and you get this stuff.
There's also the thing that if you make a technology complex and hard to understand (unnecessarily) you get to then to sell books and courses to grab more money. · 2 days ago
Most of modern IT is trash tbh. Just a single core or a modern CPU should be up to ~5 times faster than 24 years ago. NVME drives can transfer >6000MB/s vs around ~15-30MB/s and memory has insanely higher bandwidth AND multiple channels. Internet bandwidth is typically atleast 10s of Mbps vs 56.6kbps. When was the last time anyone ran an application that felt as fast and responsive as back in the day let alone show any kind of improvement? Bloat built upon bloat by coders who largely don't fully understand how a system works at a low-level. Coding standards that introduce an insane amount of overhead don't help either. KISS. · 2 days ago
@jmns Not just you, Google built it piss poorly from the get go, when they finally added a fw abstraction layer, they kept the stupid SDK bullshit, basically preventing you from upgrading anyway.
We all know it is just to keep their own vendor lock in shenanigans up. · 2 days ago
/end of "old man yells at cloud" moment.
On the other hand, yelling at the damn cloud is another hobby of mine... · 2 days ago