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Re:These are called opportunities by atlantis_ on Thursday December 03, 2020 @07:18AM (#25288135)
the onus should be upon not surrounding yourself with the latest technology - supporting old hardware and upcycling computers.

here in my city I can pull out a sticky mud-encrusted motherboard and GPU from the flea markets - scrub it down with a bit of isopropyl alcohol, and put together something as responsive as a 2015 macbook air for 20 euro (PopOS is a favourite for this).

in an agency, you have an MBP thrust upon you, and your software “works fine on [our] computers”. end users still be running a last generation of CPU will eventually decide “I need a new computer”, and the cycle is complete.

its not that developers dont care, its that they’re never given the chance to care under these ... circumstances.

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Re:These are called opportunities by tomaskafka on Thursday December 03, 2020 @07:43AM (#25288285)
There are cases of dev teams intentionally limiting themselves - Microsoft Windows Mobile OS developers having last gen devices (200 Mhz in times when flagships were 3x faster), Google web devs developing on a proxy which simulates developing country internet (low speed, high packet loss and jitter).
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