Computer Speed Gains Erased By Modern Software
hackaday.com
[Julio] has an older computer sitting on a desk, and recorded a quick video with it showing how fast this computer can do seemingly simple things, like open default Windows applications including t…

Interesting take on comparability vs performance. I gotta imaging capturing user data and sending to a cloud collector is also a big culprit.

  • FrankTheHealer@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Went down a bit of a rabbit hole here. Very interesting. Would love to see a Vsauce style video going into various real life examples of this

    Thanks for sharing.

    • pythonoob@programming.devEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Cell phone batteries. Phones used to have shit batteries but they would last 3 days because the software running on it was minimal and the hardware was low power. Batteries have become way better in the last 20 years but phones don’t even last a day because if all the hardware and software running super demanding and inefficient programs.

      • DoomBot5@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        The biggest contributor is actually screen size. Your phone screen is about 8x larger and 16x higher resolution than an old dumb phone.

      • tcm@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Part of that is just us using our phones more. If I used my smartphone the way I would use an old flip phone, the battery would probably last a few days