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   Aras Pranckevičius (aras@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Oct-2024 21:25:58 JST Aras Pranckevičius

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   This is one of "all the apps automagically update themselves" reality downsides: it used to be that software you have stays the same, on the same computer. Now, computer stays the same, but software (slowly but surely) gets slower. Needs more memory, no longer acceptably works on non-SSD, etc. etc.

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     Aras Pranckevičius (aras@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Oct-2024 21:26:00 JST Aras Pranckevičius

     Was trying to figure out why laptop of mother-in-law was very slow. It is 7 years old, 4GB RAM, HDD, so yeah. But it used to be not slow! Constant updates of both Windows and Chrome make everything sluggish. Even bringing up task manager takes half a minute. *One* app there that is still snappy? Picasa. Because it was discontinued before the laptop was made, so it had *zero* updates that would make it slower.

     Warner Crocker repeated this.