Agreed. I especially appreciate you addressing the point about software resource usage increasing over time. Its target is an old hat argument, and a strawman: just because you have a machine with 16GB of RAM doesn't somehow mean that running programs that consume prodigious resources is justified.
It's more than disingenuous: it's brain-dead. It's an attitude that leads to software obesity, where a chat client (Slack) now needs 2GB of my 8GB of memory all for itself. And no, "Just upgrade your machine" is not a valid argument in defence of software bloat.
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Agreed. I especially appreciate you addressing the point about software resource usage increasing over time. Its target is an old hat argument, and a strawman: just because you have a machine with 16GB of RAM doesn't somehow mean that running programs that consume prodigious resources is justified.
It's more than disingenuous: it's brain-dead. It's an attitude that leads to software obesity, where a chat client (Slack) now needs 2GB of my 8GB of memory all for itself. And no, "Just upgrade your machine" is not a valid argument in defence of software bloat.