TBH modern computers are obscenely powerful, I just spent weeks
on celeron 1.8GHz 2mb L2 cache 2gb ram computer and didn't see
any slowness on it despite some bloated software in python and a
strange text editor pluma that ate 150mb ram just editing a plain
text file, I swear it's not based on
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/moore-law-expiring/
At the same time as the arrival of Optane persistent storage in
relatively chest machines changes the game a bit.
If storage prices do keep falling at 40% annualised or
thereabouts, it's possible one might see a little more respect
bein