I’ve been using computers for over 2 decades now. My first PC was a 66 Mhz 486 machine with a 2.4 kbps modem and the web did not even have Google ( We had Altavista ). Since the internet was slow, I spent most of my time with Applications that could be installed on my local machine. Now I spend most of my time on web applications and somehow it feels like we have moved backward rather than moving forward. Memory Usage A few years ago while trying to figure out why I was running out of RAM, I stumbled upon chrome’s task manager. Gmail was using up 700MB of RAM and all I had open was the Inbox. No fancy search box or Compose, the Inbox was taking up 700MB of RAM to display lines of text in a Tabular format. I’ve been a heavy user of Email clients and if you pick any of the native clients (Thunderbird, Outlook, Apple Mail) and open a bunch of searches and compose windows the memory usage will still stay below 100MB. I used mIRC a few decades ago to connect to multi...
Google stadia was launched a few months ago to much fanfare. It promised 4k streaming on the Pro version, a great collection of games and streaming provided by Google's vast data center network. But the launch wasn't exactly smooth. Stadia was initially going to launch with a collection of 12 games , which had a lot of people complaining. PS4 has 2441 games in comparison with Xbox one clocking in at 2361 games in comparison ( 3200+ if you also include the backward compatibility games from Xbox 360). Now Stadia's founder edition wasn't exactly cheap at 129$ and required a monthly subscription of 10$ to play games. You can buy a brand new Xbox One S for 149$ in comparison. Google was quickly forced to revise it's launch lineup and added 10 games just before launch to its arsenal. Critics weren't very impressed though and reviews were lacklustre at best. Games did not run at the promised 4k resolution and in many cases were upscaled . Lobbies for multiplayer gam...