soll

silica enthusiast

howdy i'm not that good at bios! i'm a 23yo artist and nerd from brazil who uses ^_^ a lot


big old link index at my website
solflo.neocities.org/haunts.html
tumblr (my only social media now...)
sol-flo.tumblr.com/
gemini capsule
gemini://sol.cities.yesterweb.org

cosmopawt
@cosmopawt

wanted to make a post about the perpetual arms race between hardware engineers making their devices as fast as possible and software engineers making their programs as unoptimized as possible, but i couldnt figure out a way to word it

all im gonna say is, theres functionally no reason a phone needs 16 gigs of ram and an insanely fast processor to run youtube. and "tick-tock". and occasionally texting your friends. maybe listen to music now and then. the fact that an iphone 8 is "outdated" and "slow" is stupid. why should an App with words and pictures use 6 gigs of ram. why should my device be able to handle 4k video. i cant even see the pixels anymore at 1080p on a 6 inch screen. cameras in phones are really good now? ok. only because companies stopped investing in producing small digital cameras. game graphics are super impressive on phones now? dont care. we had a tool for that. called a "handheld gaming console". you kids wouldnt understand.


MxSelfDestruct
@MxSelfDestruct

fifty million fucking tonnes of e-waste every year because software vendors insist on writing everything in ffffffucking javascript. fuck you.


MxSelfDestruct
@MxSelfDestruct

every bump in minimum system requirements comes with a cost of human life. every new generation of goddamn telephone flings another Foxconn sweatshop worker out of a window, buries another Congolese child under a cobalt mine collapse, dumps a thousand tonnes of toxic waste into the biosphere.

don't be the reason someone throws their computer into a landfill and buys a new one.


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in reply to @cosmopawt's post:

Personally, I think the highest phones should go is 8gb Ram for Emulation (the death of Handheld Consoles still saddens me), and between 64-128gb of Storage Space (I have a 32gb phone, and it doesn't have enough space for Jack). Any more is basically useless, and I cannot wrap my head around needing higher processors on something whose main focus is fucking Phone Calls.

in reply to @MxSelfDestruct's post:

The only reason I couldn't keep using a laptop from 2008 that was a cheap POS when new is that rendering web pages keeps getting more and more bloated and also the keys started falling off and a new keyboard part was 50 bucks.

This is so fucking true. Let me use my device as long as possible without artificiallly bogging it down for fuck's sake. It works perfectly fine corporations just decided that they don't want to support it anymore.