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   Shrig 🐌 (shrigglepuss@godforsaken.website)'s status on Sunday, 02-Jun-2024 15:35:35 JST Shrig 🐌

   I'm really really really not interested in computers getting more powerful.
   I am super interested in them being more repairable and modifiable, drawing less power, lasting and being supported for way longer etc. That stuff still gets me excited

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     Joracle (joracle@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Jun-2024 17:26:52 JST Joracle

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     @Shrigglepuss hopefully #riscv will be the turn to more efficient computers. If they also get more powerful at the same time though, I wouldn't be sad.

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     BenjaminKlein (benjaminklein@mastodon.nu)'s status on Sunday, 02-Jun-2024 17:26:56 JST BenjaminKlein

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     @Shrigglepuss absolutely this. Much easier to reduce software bloat than improve your hardware. Ran xubuntu for years on an old laptop and probably got better or equivalent performance than most modern laptops available new, really great.
     https://xubuntu.org/

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     dragonfrog (dragonfrog@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2024 11:17:01 JST dragonfrog

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     @Shrigglepuss I've literally never had a work computer that was as quick and responsive as the 300 MHz blue and white Mac G3 desktop I got in about 1998. From pressing the power button to doing my first productive task, there's just no contest.

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     Shrig 🐌 (shrigglepuss@godforsaken.website)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2024 11:17:02 JST Shrig 🐌

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     Computers are as fast as they need to be. I know that's an old thing we've been joking about for decades, but these days it feels software is just getting more and more bloated for the sake of selling faster computers and features for the sake of more=good capitalism

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     Katy Swain (katyswain@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2024 11:17:07 JST Katy Swain

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     @Shrigglepuss When I was looking to put together my current desktop I went to a local shop and the kids there honestly thought I was joking when I said I wanted something to last a decade. My last computer did 8 years and I only replaced it because I used to live by the sea, and I was down to my last working USB port due to rust.

     Got the current one from a GNU/Linux specialist. Installing Debian was a dream. Didn't need a single non-free driver. How it should be.

     https://www.linuxnow.com.au

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     Dippy (trsdppy@mstdn.games)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2024 11:17:13 JST Dippy

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     @Shrigglepuss I want shorter games with worse graphics made by people paid more to work less, and I want computers to match

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