The Four Gigabyte Programmer

My solution for bloatware is this: by law you should hire in every programming team someone who is Like, A Guy who has a crappy laptop with 4GB and an integrated graphics card, no scratch that, 2 GB of RAM, and a rural internet connection. And every time someone in your team proposes to add shit like NPCs with visible pores or ray tracing or all the bloatware that Windows, Adobe, etc. are doing now, they have to come back and try your project in the Guy's laptop and answer to him. He is allowed to insult you and humiliate you if it doesn’t work in his laptop, and you should by law apologize and optimize it for him. If you try to put any kind of DRM or permanent internet connection, he is legally allowed to shoot you. With about 5 or 10 years of that, we will fix the world.

A social media text post proposes that every programming team should include someone with an extremely weak laptop and rural internet connection. That person must test every feature and reject bloated software, unnecessary graphics, DRM, and permanent internet requirements, humorously presenting hardware limitations as a way to fix the world. EN: A social media text post proposes that every programming team should include someone with an extremely weak laptop and rural internet connection. That person must test every feature and reject bloated software, unnecessary graphics, DRM, and permanent internet requirements, humorously presenting hardware limitations as a way to fix the world.

• @gentoomemes / 16010 2025-02-14