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hulitu on April 22, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Evertop: E-ink IBM XT clone with 100+ hours of bat...

> Fairly unrelated, but loading that repo's page is nearly 200MB... Was a bit surprised at that.

We have more than 8 GB of RAM, TB of hard drive and GHz computing power. We are humans. We just don't care. If we can waste something, we waste it. /s

squigz on April 22, 2025 [–]

Well to be fair, bandwidth is one area that's still limited a lot of the time.

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