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We have @EUCommission [rightfully!] crack down on #cars and their #emissions by demanding ever lower #FleetEmissions and #FuelConsumption numbers but still accept #Bloatware like shitty #WebApps and #Windows11 to demand so much #WastefulComputing that it's painful.
- Like Margaret Hammond and Grace Hopper would be shaking their heads in agony, pointing out how they got people on the moon with less storage than the SPD-ROM on a RAM stick and how their programming language still runs #TradFinance respectably, but somehow sending text messages is too much for a machine that costs €499 yet has more computational power than all the machines they worked on combined.
#WastefulComputing like all those phat & enshittified messengers should be illegal.
- Espechally since they have 0 reason to be that resource intensive, even if we believe some of their security-focussed marketing lies.
Infosec.SpaceKevin Karhan :verified: (@kkarhan@infosec.space)For those who don't know the [size of the problem](
https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/114862595629371002):
In 2006 I bought a new [entry level] Computer with 256 MB of RAM and a single-core P4 Celeron with 2,8 GHz.
- This thing ran #WindowsXP and #NeedForSpeedMostWanted just fine.
- Nowadays it would crash trying to open #Slack even on a minimalist #Linux distro like @bunsenlabs@linuxrocks.online even when using @dillo@fosstodon.org ...
And now imagine that some folks have to use #Slack, #MicrosoftTeams, #Telegram, #Signal, #WhatApp, #WeChat, #QQ and #LineMessenger at the same time, and you can imagine that this will make entry-level desktops already scream harder than if someone were to loop the *Lost Coast benchmark* on them...
- The #bloat of modern #WebApps is just the *socially accepted equivalent* to #Cryptojacking desktops and driving some *phat* #SuperUselessVehicle just to get less than a kg of groceries at a walking distance supermarket.
AI's role in Microsoft layoffs, a mind-blowing Windows 11 install media update, Copilot Vision full Desktop support, and 
NINE (yes 9!) 
