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Re:Experiment: The costs of slow build times by danuker on Friday December 09, 2022 @05:27AM (#33919772)
As a Romanian web dev, my 8-y-o laptop has a 4-core CPU, 12GB RAM, and 256GB of SSD space.

The laptop cost about 110% of my monthly entry-level salary.

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Re:Experiment: The costs of slow build times by 5e92cb50239222b on Friday December 09, 2022 @07:38AM (#33920566)
Romania is significantly better developed and more affluent than most of the world. My similarly aged laptop had much worse hardware than what you're describing and cost 200%+ of my old entry-level salary. (I don't use laptops anymore.)

GitHub CI also has much better network connectivity (both speed and especially ping) compared to most parts of my country.

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