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Fallacies that advocate software bloat (Miscellaneous)

posted by samwdpckr, 26.12.2025, 09:39

> The other bad idea is always "hardware is cheap" (e.g. RAM), but that is
> clearly not true anymore.

Arguably it has never been true at all. We have recently had a very short time in history where one could buy a new computer for less than 300 euros or US dollars, but those computers were never powerful enough to run any modern software at decent speeds. They typically had just enough memory to boot the pre-installed version of Windows and maybe run one program at time. No real multitasking capability. Back then one could make them usable by replacing the factory-installed operating system with some Linux distribution, but now even Linux has abandoned its former ideals and it doesn't work like that anymore.

On the other hand phones became very expensive when the age of cheap Nokia phones ended. Back then you could buy a basic phone with 40 euros and it lasted easily six years or more. Nowadays the surrounding society actively makes your life very hard if you don't have one of the newest Android/iOS phone models, which are very expensive. Even the so-called cheap models easily cost at least 200 euros and they are full of spyware. And they are considered durable if they last two years.

Not to mention that 200 or 300 euros or US dollars is also way too expensive for many people.

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