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1. Woozle Hypertwin (woozle@toot.cat)'s status on Friday, 31-Dec-2021 11:48:29 UTC Woozle Hypertwin

   Wild idea: single-user OS for older equipment.

   Given how much more sluggish stuff is now vs Windows 98SE circa 2001, despite the computing power being orders of magnitude higher, I have to wonder if this couldn't be a thing.

   Actually, I guess the real question is: what is really eating all that computing power?

   • GoatSara (goatsara@toot.cat)'s status on Friday, 31-Dec-2021 11:48:29 UTC GoatSara

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     @woozle I mean whole essays could probably be written about why some stuff are so slow nowadays but I would say most of it comes to sloppy programming

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   • lime with barcode (scanlime@misc.name)'s status on Friday, 31-Dec-2021 11:48:34 UTC lime with barcode

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     @woozle a lot of it is in the graphics environments and runtime environments; moving from painting directly to the front buffer to doing several layers of compositing with large amounts of memory and memory bandwidth required

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   • Alexander Bochmann (galaxis@mastodon.infra.de)'s status on Friday, 31-Dec-2021 11:48:34 UTC Alexander Bochmann

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     @woozle Dynamic (hardware) environments, network interaction in general and client-side code from web services specifically, additional security boundaries, telemetry everywhere, high-rez screens, all-around complexity, and an overabundance of hardware resources which makes it seem that none of this matters.

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   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 31-Dec-2021 11:53:50 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     @woozle Roll back to e.g. the Oberon OS, build from there, identify what is *really* missing compared to modern UX and add that.
     
     Things that come to mind are accessibility and localization, which wouldn't cost much to add in terms of performance. Hardware abstraction and networked capabilities, same.
     
     The other 99% of system performance would go toward running the web browser. So maybe think of ways of living our lives without HTML5.