The Old Computer Challenge

Re:The Old Computer Challenge by teddyh on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @02:57PM (#27764597)

At first impression this seemed nice; a call to use a less capable machine for a while, which would certainly make developers more understanding of people with lesser hardware, reduce e-waste, etc.

But on closer reading, this seems instead to be, in effect, a call to migrate everthing to cloud computing, and to abandon having your own computer at all and rely completely on locked-down platform locally. That would not really be something I could get behind.

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Re:The Old Computer Challenge by syntheticnature on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @03:36PM (#27764955)

Looking at the other comments here, it sounds like the sticking point for many is that the migration of everything to cloud computing already happened, and the problem is webapps assuming you can easily devote tons of RAM to them.

The escape hatch in the rules, I figure, was more because you're not going to be able trivially to respec any cloud servers you already have for the week.

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Re:The Old Computer Challenge by anthk on Friday July 09, 2021 @11:32AM (#27784719)

For each webapp you can use a local lightweight alternative.

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