Wim🧮May 2, 2023

* Make software that works on older devices, the older the better.
* Make software that will keep on working for a very long time.
* Make software that uses the least amount of total energy to achieve its results.
* Make software that also uses the least amount of network data transfer, memory and storage.
* Make software that encourages the user to use it in a frugal way.

#FrugalComputing

Show threadRileyMay 2, 2023
@wim_v12e I think often about how so much of our computing could be so much more power efficient if even just the most popular websites weren't horrifically inefficient and slow. 95% of people could get by on a Raspberry Pi running a stripped down DE if not for websites being hungrier than most actual applications.
Show threadRAK
@riley @wim_v12e: JavaScript seems to have been a particular mistake here, although I suppose that's a case of what it's being used for as much as anything else. But yes, web browsers are obscenely processor-/memory-hungry and it doesn't help that Electron is a thing either.
May 3, 2023 at 7:25pmWeb