You all could just load a bunch of stuff and ignore what you didn't want. We're stuck in the mindset that bandwidth matters, so a bunch of stupid memes we aren't interested taking up bandwidth and screen real estate just feels off.

It feels less like it's being "offered" and more like it's being shoved down our throats.

Bandwidth is going to be the new "turn off the lights when you leave" for the Oregon Trail generation. In our heads we still need to be cognizant of how much we're using, even tho subsequent generations never seem to think about it. They've just never had to.

Happens to every generation in some way or another.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm getting annoyed that every damn thing is turning into a web app now and JS/Chrome is even infecting desktop programs that traditionally were written in a real systems language like C or C++. The technology world feels janky and bloated now, built like a house of cards where one thing is relying on 20 other things, some of them in the cloud, to work right.

Programming these days seems to be more about glueing various services and APIs together to come up with a solution instead of actually coding it.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago

You're half right. There's a lot of house-of-cards junk (see left-pad) but a lot of it is also using existing frameworks as a foundation instead of reinventing the wheel. Cryptography in particular is one wheel you should not roll yourself.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

that traditionally were written in a real systems language like C or C++

I mean...

You act like people weren't using Java for serious shit... They still do for whatever reason.

[–] Foni@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I am 38 years old, I remember perfectly when downloading a single song could easily take a week, porn was exclusively photos because online videos were unimaginable and streaming hadn't even been invented yet. I don't understand why you're still worried about that right now, photos, videos, games, movies, everything moves online in a matter of seconds, downloading at +10Mb/s on emule is today normal. I have gotten used to it normally.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Anytime someone is generalizing a group like a generation...

It's usually understood that exceptions exist.

[–] Foni@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago

Ok, I might be the exception, but as I said before, Instagram has its main user base among people of my generation. I don't think those users care about bandwidth at any level.