like i don't need messages instantly, i don't need notifications instantly, i don't need my web pages to be pretty just responsive
bc if you're against exploitation we're gonna have to move off of what makes a lot of these things fast but also have long battery life, i feel.
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the slower your page is, the more likely it's less efficient than one using sightly more cpu. a balance to be struck.
personally I'm excited for the upcoming era, post-Moore's Law, where computers are no longer disposable because bloat makes them unusable after a few years for no real reason. You can easily get a decade out of most modern processors, flash storage wears out eventually but often lasts much longer than people need it to, especially if we deliberately step back to SLC. batteries will have to be regularly replaced for now but that can be designed into the device. underclock, optimize, simplify. A usable UI for e-ink would be fantastic, but even stuff like LTPO OLED with down-to-1Hz refresh rates help a lot, when used at reasonable brightness.
also I think computers do too many things. They have too many processes, they track too much, they update and collate and ping servers and printers and constantly scream "i'm still here" to anything that you dare plug into them. I just popped open Activity Monitor and it turns out the Apple Maps application hiding behind my browser was using 1.6% of a CPU core to sit there and be invisible, not even counting the handful of daemon processes with maps in the name that I assume are related somehow. why are there 509 processes running? whomst'd've? and I'm on a ridiculously overpowered and efficient computer, thank you Apple for the M1, great work, but there's no need for like 20% of my CPU to be used at idle.
Remember when multitasking was cooperative? you had like one process actually running and every now and then it'd pass execution to the OS for some background tasks. Imagine if we architected our computers like that these days. meanwhile, there's now 515 processes running, for some reason. I've just been typing. :/
