The Great TECH LIE

[JakeBullet70]

"Your computer is more powerful than machines that sent humans to the moon, yet it struggles to run a web browser and video editor simultaneously. How did we get here? This is the story of the greatest lie in modern technology - the myth that more power always means better performance. From 8GB to 32GB RAM requirements for the same basic tasks, discover why your "upgraded" system feels slower than your old one, and why the tech industry wants you to believe this is progress."

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Video is a real good watch and really is sad as there is no way off the crazy capitalist tech train for society as a whole.

 

[Sagenut]

I still have to watch the video you posted but I have my own opinion about this issue.
In the past, when processors was 286, 386, 486 and it was really an investment for the family to have one, developers were working hard to optimize, optimize, optimize to make the same software (especially games) work at least decently on every machine.
The concept on scalability was the main concern.
Then arrived the era where every 6 months (or less) everything was doubling the power.
CPU, GPU, ram, hard disk.......
So developers started to make everything AS IT IS and if it's not working for you then the reason in simply one:
"Your hardware is obsolete. Upgrade."
In the past there were even less hardware producer.
Now it's a brand (and sub-brand) war.
And here we are.

 

[BlueVision]

I couldn't agree more. And there's another aspect that really drives me crazy. If you look at modern operating systems and their applications, the focus on ease of use, clarity and usability has been completely lost.

ERGONOMICS

Examples?
1. Windows
Who on earth convinced Microsoft that using microscopic and "breathing" scroll bars was a good idea? You have to search for these things, and woe betide anyone who isn't sensitive enough with their mouse.

2. Excel, Word
These programmes used to be intuitive to use. Today, they are overloaded with a multitude of unnecessary functions that are never used by even 1% of users. Basic functions no longer appear at all and can only be found after studying a video tutorial on YouTube, hidden in the seventh submenu of the third tab from the right. Assuming you have the right version installed, when you update, this function is then parked somewhere else because it makes more sense there.

3. Adobe Acrobat
The simple zoom function has now been hidden in four different places. First in the top toolbar, then somewhere in a submenu, then in the left toolbar, and yes, we didn't have a right toolbar before, but now we've also changed the icons there to make this basic function even harder to find.

Is this what software developers learn nowadays? Is the goal to make life really difficult for the end user? Oh yes, we have AI, which will soon do it for us, and we are becoming increasingly stupid.

 

[aeric]

This is one of the answers if you ask me why I want to create my own POS system.

 

[Magma]

I believe that the truth is somewhere in the middle...

No, videos are not just videos... They do not have the same resolutions, the same colors, or the same quality formats. We've jumped from 160p to 1080p, 4K, and even 8K.
No, audio is not the same either.
Documents may have more options.
Spreadsheets offer more functions.
Operating systems are using more bits — from 8bit to 16bit, 32bit, and now 64bit, and still progressing.
Security has become much tougher.
Antivirus is now standard, consuming large amounts of resources.

But I am not going to make the "pill" golden... Yes, we are all taking a pill.

A pill of easy development, of drag-and-drop, or RAD (Rapid Application Development)... to make things faster, to gain quickly... what? Money...

Optimization for fewer bytes or faster execution has been discarded—it's now in the recycle bin of our brains. Why? Because of cheap hardware, because operating systems have almost no limitations. I remember the 64KB limitation of QuickBasicPro for arrays and variables. All these limits made us better.
So we must think... Is freedom really what we need? Or do we need limitations to make ourselves better?

Everything in life seems to work the same way...


If you want to be fit, you must exercise; you must feel pain to gain—no pain, no gain (no game)!
If you want to be a better student, you must study and practice; you must "lose" time to gain.
If you want to be a better person, you must have limits and control over your words and thoughts.
We all live in organized communities; we have laws (I think almost everyone does), and we follow them—sometimes those laws are limits.


So, if you use limits correctly, if you have them (and if you don't, you must set them yourself) — you are always optimized.
Of course, sometimes you need to surpass limits to break records.


I think there is a special line between limits and no limits. If you understand the logic of this line, you can say that your product is well optimized.

 

[rabbitBUSH]