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So much software also just takes for granted that it should be allowed on the Internet.
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It keeps bouncing between too real and too absurd. Absurd: Not enough power on our sailboat to run Ableton and Photoshop. Real: So we replaced it with open source technology. Absurd: That technology was based on Electron. Real: Electron was too bloated. Absurd: So we ported everything over to the NES. Real: And now you can run our software anywhere you can emulate an NES
Chat rooms and bare bones text editors aren't supposed to be process-heavy, and yet the popular communication platform Slack requires outrageous amounts of ram and CPU to function. [...] Making software this way is costly to off-grid users, or those on slow connections, [...] So true.
My solution would have been: older copies of photoshop that don't require an internet connection and a larger battery + solar panels.
(That does change somewhat when doing paid work though...)
What apocalyptic events?
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They run 9front, much better than XP and 7. No reinstalls, no DLL hells, everything it's statically compiled, updates can be done totally in place and offline. Good luck running Windows 7 on an RPI and with a laughable power draw. Oh, and don't even compare VS + MSDN documentations (huge GB's wasted) vs what Acme can do and just the plan9's 9.intro.pdf book. The disk usage would wear out any SD in days. 9front, otoh,…
The constraints under which they work are wonderful. Power included. It basically mandates excellence, efficiency.-
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Chat rooms and bare bones text editors aren't supposed to be process-heavy, and yet the popular communication platform Slack requires outrageous amounts of ram and CPU to function. [...] Making software this way is costly to off-grid users, or those on slow connections, [...] So true.
Slack had a good solution in the form of an IRC bridge but of course they killed it.
Their 2d music programming language, Orca is very cool/fun. Some examples: https://youtube.com/watch?v=MNF8SF69QvM&list=PLb1uDATFJPcEEG... https://youtube.com/watch?v=DBI8eBMGyYs https://youtube.com/watch?v=mxr8Dtw2R5w https://youtube.com/watch?v=RDZiKYSGsjg
UXN / Varvara (a project by these folks) is something really special https://100r.co/site/uxn.html - an approach to creating intelligible software by applying strict complexity constraints, sort of like Viewpoint Research’s STEPS project, but with more concrete goals and an even smaller and simpler basis.
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