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From: John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: AI Is Killing Some Legacy Hardware Support
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:18:38 -0700
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On Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:43:46 +0200
Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam2616@zugschl.us> wrote:

> People who actually work with the machine usually can't choose which
> web sites to visit, and a _typical_ 2026 workload will make the
> browser's memory footprint so HUGE that the resource "hunger" of the
> GUI doesn't matter any more.
> 
> It is a typical case that those "my machine has 2 GB of RAM and works
> fine" people come around with info like quoted above, admitting that
> their workload is FAR from what an average user in $YEAR does.

I never said it was average - in fact, I said the opposite of that, in
referring to a laptop PC as a "portable typewriter" (i.e. I use it as a
text editor plus some light and mainly research-oriented Web browsing.)
What I *did* say is that it depends on the workload, which is entirely
correct.

And it remains as nonsensical as ever to claim that GUI bloat "doesn't
matter" next to the bloat of modern browsers and the modern Web, when
in fact it's exactly this that eats away what might otherwise be a
comfortable margin for system resources to spare on novel/pretty but
non-necessary GUI frippery.