Memory is cheap and data sells enough to many parties. Most apps are just store front for Ads and data collection.
No wonder why open source apps are quite light.
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Oh, they have new functionality. It's all in the back end, detailing everything you do and sending it to the parent company so they can monetize your life.
Remember that day when GDPR dropped and website suddenly started loading much faster.
"Program is slow? Just get better hardware, brah!!! It's cheap, bruh!!!"
Fuck you and anyone that thinks like that
It's truely a sad norm
Duh, it's because more and more code is ran remotely. Wait...
Performance/optimisation wise is an environmental catastrophe..
Did my husband made this meme? Because he is constantly saying this 😂😂😂😂
Is this the appropriate point to reference the suckless community? I mean, that's THE point of the movement...
Lazy devs not removing old non functional commented code and background code additions ?
Though I do get it if they don't want to remove the old code if their employer is an asshole
That's not why. It's the dependency trees that run a dozen layers deep and end up importing "isEven". If you're building a react app odds are good you'll import way more code than you ever write yourself.
And no one should be leaving commented-out code in their app, that's what source control is for.
Most resources are not consumed by wonky code or dependencies. Most resources are consumed by images and sounds.
Surely it depends on the specific software.
I imagine the ability for an app to watch me take a shit consumes about the same resources regardless of platform.
Every decent piece of software has crap loads of resources: icons, texts, translations, manuals, sounds, fonts, etc. Even hello world app contains at least one resource - "hello world" string and what's funny is that executable meta data required by operating systems and the string take more space than the actual code to print this string.
It's just that we have to make space for our 5,358 partners and the telemetry data they need.
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Electron everywhere.
And analytics. And offloading as much computation to the client, because servers are expensive and inefficiency is not an issue if your users are the ones paying for it.
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Paypal has 500 mb and just shows a number and you can press a button to send a number to their server.
It's insane
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