We've had general purpose computers for decades but every year the hardware requirements for general purpose operating systems keep increasing. I personally don't think there has been a massive spike in productivity using a computer between when PCs usually had 256-512mb to now where you need at least 8gb to have a decent experience. What has changed are growing protocol specs that are now a bloated mess, poorly optimised programs and bad design decisions.

[–] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 16 points 2 years ago

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[–] kamen@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I personally don’t think there has been a massive spike in productivity using a computer between when PCs usually had 256-512mb to now

For general use/day to day stuff like web browsing, sure, I agree, but what about things like productivity and content creation? Imagine throwing a 4K video at a machine with 512 MiB RAM - it would probably have troubles even playing it, let alone editing/processing.

[–] spiderplant@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

Your original comment mentioned general purpose computers. Video production definitely isn't general purpose.

What do you mean by productivity?

[–] MxM111@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I like to have more than one tab opened on my browser.

[–] spiderplant@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

That used to be possible on less ram, blame OS, browser and web developers

[–] rambaroo@lemmy.world -4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You have no clue what you're talking about.

[–] spiderplant@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

I'm a software engineer but go off

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

Actually does

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 9 points 2 years ago

Apollo 11 never had to deal with 47 different tracking cookies.