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A surprising number of people on here are tech luddites. People who weren't alive when their precious tiny-footprint software crashed every couple hours and was loaded with security vulnerabilities and before IDEs when you just had to keep everything in your head while you coded or dig through a stack of books.
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@Moon you say luddite like it's a bad thing :smirk:
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@Moon my foundations came from stacks of books that were slightly out of date for the time period and being sold at a discount store for like 10% of their original price.
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incidentally that essay I saw recently suggests if people had expectations of software like games it would be less of a problem but games now take hundreds of gigabytes and they just tell you to buy a new computer if you can't play starfield
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things use too much storage and too much memory and in some cases too many layers of (bad abstraction) but overall people are ignoring how great everything is now in absolute terms.
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still things should be way better, I don't know how to fix it
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@Moon we can start by telling game creators to compress their audio. I don't need 9001kbps crystal clear FLACs taking up 200GB on my hard disk when those FLACs are enemy orcs screaming as I chop their limbs off.
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It's true, an average 10 year old computer is still more than fine enough except for gaming and high performance work (4k media editing, machine learning, high-end CAD and graphics).
In 2010, an average 10 year old computer was probably unusable for anything but email and very low end web browsing.
In 2000, an average 10 year old computer was probably a 386 or worse, essentially unusable for any task that someone in 2000 would want to do.
In 1990, an average 10 year old computer was a toy micro that would not interface with anything recent, or an Apple II used in education.
Of course, part of the obsolescence is due to inefficient software design, but hardware performance increases has out-paced that steadily.
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@Moon don’t want to ask impossible questions, but what is “too much “? I remember when I my hard drive died in my first pentium, I had to use a 170mb drive and I had to doublespace it to fit windows 95 and StarCraft on it. Even with 200gb games, this doesn’t happen these days.
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@lain my opinion is that "too much" is an aesthetic, people are offended by a number but it doesn't matter unless you actually run out of space
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@Moon @lain I ran out of space almost immediately on the 1Tb my gaming computer came with after getting it, through installing my Steam games. Microsoft Flight Simulator and Total War: Warhammer (1-2-3) take up maybe 20% of the usable space each.
Another case where that ends up mattering is that Microsoft is shipping the Xbox Series consoles with 512Gb and 1Tb. 512Gb on the Series S means that in practice you cannot fit more than 2 of the bigger games available together at the same time.
I do remember though when I was a kid and I wanted to install Wing Commander 2 or Ultima VII with all the fixings, I had to pretty much dedicate the entire drive to it.
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@guizzy @Moon yeah, i did buy a bigger ssd for my asus whatever steam deck thing, because 512gb was too annoying, but I could still install like 8 games, not one or two like we used to back in the 486 days.
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