• Dave.@aussie.zone
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    5 hours ago

    The CPU in an average consumer PC can do tens of billions of instructions per second now. 10,000,000,000+ instructions per second. And then it can also offload some work to other devices. Here, graphics card, deal with updating this display at 144Hz. Hey network card, take this buffer and squirt it out the ethernet port at a 1 gigabit line speed for me.

    And even with all that help, it still takes for-fucking-ever to get shit done. What the fuck are all those instructions doing‽

    • Mac@mander.xyz
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      4 hours ago

      Mine are all used up to block ads and trackers and page elements, then when they’re done, I’m being throttled punitively by the service because i didn’t watch their ads :(