this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2023
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The Andromedus Galacticus Collection

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This is a personal collection of things I find around the internet.

Alright, so somehow you found this place. Here's what to expect:

Due to the nature of this place, you may find a bunch of stuff that you don't care about, but you may also find a new passion.

So, the gist is, this is a place where I'll share random things, and you'll discover the internet with me.

Oh yeah, I didn't advertise this place anywhere, so hey, how did you even get here?

Check out the sister sub where you discover music with me! [email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, they’re not totally wrong if you’re just talking about overhead opening a “simple” app- however this falls apart when you’re talking about actually using the hardware- video encoding/decoding, file reading/writing, multitasking, real time event handling, random IO, etc etc etc. it’s also much less obvious in linux and macOS which boot apps extremely fast.

Modern software also does a lot more, at higher resolution, with more flexibility, etc…

Maybe notepad takes 5 seconds to load on some windows laptop vs 1 second on an 80s machine- but I also don’t just use a computer for notepad. The volume of data I crunch a day, while running docker containers and services and transcoding and compiling and rendering and transferring tons of IO is staggering even compared to 5 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago