#bloated — Public Fediverse posts

This pre-installed (i.e., bloatware) game app begged me to stay. What do you think? 🤔

#bloatware #preinstalled #android #uninstall #guilttrip #funny #techhumor #app #gaming #meme #relatable #phone #androidlife #deletethis #bloated #tech #humor #screenshots #realtalk #cringe #apps #digitaldetox

Vox wails about #Frances #Allen, a coder who dared to actually make things work, thus ensuring her swift erasure from the annals of overhyped #tech #mediocrity 🙄🖥️. After all, who needs #efficiency when you can have #bloated #code that everyone remembers? 🤷‍♂️📉
https://voxmeditantis.com/2025/12/13/frances-elizabeth-allen-the-woman-who-made-code-run-fast-and-was-forgotten-because-it-worked/ #Vox #coding #HackerNews #ngated

I saw an interesting article yesterday that said #Microsoft was finally admitting that some program of theirs was so bloated and #slow to start that it was harming the user experience, so they were considering pre-loading it at boot (or #login) time so #users wouldn't see the huge delay when they went to open it.

(Of course, that would slow down booting or login...)

But that program is ... Windows File Explorer.

So let me get this straight - a glorified file picker and directory navigator is so #bloated and slow it can't start up instantly? And thousands of engineers can't figure out how to make it fast or efficient?

Maybe they should ask #CoPilot to speed it up.

#FileExplorer #WindowsFileExplorer #treacle

#Putin #PutinCalendar #Rosenberg #VladimirPutin #SteveRosenberg #PutinIsAWarCriminal #Russia #War #UkraineWar #WarCrimes #zelensky #Zelenskyy #CrapCalendar #Walrus #FatRussianWalrus #Dictator #Bloated #BBC #BBCNews
Use them for lining the floor of your hamster’s cage, or better still, emergency toilet paper. Either way, they’re for sale, so don’t all rush at once…

Ah, because what the world really needs is another bloated, jargon-laden GitHub repo solving a problem nobody has. 🤖✨ #Open-source #AI browser automation: where developers desperately try to justify their existence by making your browser even more annoying. 🙄🚀
https://github.com/magnitudedev/magnitude #browser-automation #bloated-code #developer-humor #tech-satire #unnecessary-tools #HackerNews #ngated

Republicans have had remarkable success mobilizing resentment against school teachers, or auto workers (and not, significantly, against the school administrators or auto industry managers who actually cause the problems) for their #supposedly #bloated #wages and #benefits.
It's as if they are being told
‘but you get to teach children! Or make cars! You get to have #real #jobs! And on top of that you have the nerve to also expect middle-class pensions and health care?’

If someone had designed a work regime perfectly suited to maintaining the #power of #finance #capital, it's hard to see how they could have done a better job.
Real, productive workers are relentlessly squeezed and exploited.
The remainder are divided between a terrorised stratum of the, universally reviled, unemployed and a larger stratum who are basically paid to do nothing, in positions designed to make them identify with the perspectives and sensibilities of the ruling class (managers, administrators, etc.)
—and particularly its financial avatars
—but, at the same time, foster a simmering resentment against anyone whose work has clear and undeniable social value.

Clearly, the system was never consciously designed.
It emerged from almost a century of trial and error.
But it is the only explanation for why, despite our technological capacities, we are not all working 3–4 hour days.

https://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/