• electrodynamica
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    3 years ago

    So you tab over to a TV show, or hug your dog, or make a sandwich.

    You kids and your instant gratification. Back in the Slackware 1.0 days you had to download packages over a 28.8kbps PPP connection with 300ms plus latency. And that was fast as hell compared to the 2400 bps xmodem BBS days.

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      2 years ago

      Didn’t say it was time consuming like it was bad. Its just what happens when you have to compile most programs in the OS. Just listing tradeoffs dude.

      Also wasn’t the whole point of progress to make things better overall than to laude over people on how you had it worse?