Microsoft is paywalling these features in Notepad and Paint
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2614943/microsoft-is-paywalling-these-features-in-notepad-and-paint.html

For decades, Notepad and Paint have been the epitome of "keep it simple" in software design: lightweight application, minimum feature-set, no bells-and-whistles, you can rely on it to get the job done well, doesn't have any UI/UX clutter, and no design-change drama for years.

The bad news: Practically every Tech company these days is trying to cram AI into everything. Microsoft recently started adding bloat to Notepad and Paint by integrating OpenAI nonsense such as Dall-E.

Now for the good news: Microsoft is hiding all that AI garbage behind a paywall.

How far we've come in 20 years…

164x the size. An average growth of 445 MB per year.

Why is a basic app for syncing a smartwatch SIX HUNDRED MEGABYTES?! #garmin #bloat #softwarebloat

Yet another program that adds stories for no reason whatsoever. Repeat after me:

"Not every program needs stories."

Every time I download a gigabyte-sized update for a software that solves one simple problem, I think the exact same thing: "The world is shipping far too much code..." #softwareBloat

Nice article by @bert_hubert: https://spectrum.ieee.org/lean-software-development

#GoogleChrome is about 40 million lines, which is about the same size as the #Linux kernel.

Nobody can read the #SourceCode of Chrome. Not alone, not as a team. A thousand people working for a decade couldn't read the entire thing.

And the computers that run the #code aren't much faster now than they were a decade ago. #SoftwareBloat #KoomeysLaw

Drowning in code: The ever-growing problem of ever-growing #codebases
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/02/12/drowning_in_code/

macOS Sonoma is a 13.37GB download.

That’s 15.5 times larger than Arch Linux…

Over 6.5 times larger than EndeavourOS
Over 5 times larger than Garuda, Linux Mint, Feren OS, Pop!_OS, Fedora, & Zorin
Over 3 times larger than Ubuntu, Manjaro & Debian

Over 2.4 times larger than…WINDOWS 11‽

Are you feeling okay, Tim Apple?

The Power Macintosh 6500’s software bundle sure loaded a lot of extensions

#apple #macintosh #powermacintosh
#retrocomputing #vintagemac
#softwarebloat

NodeJS (19.4) won't build on my laptop using homebrew anymore because it's running out of disk space.

I have 13.6 GB free space.

"For work, I need to run the Microsoft OneDrive client on one of my Macs, and I was surprised to see that it recently crossed the 1 GB threshold. This is a file syncing utility... it was 70 MB just four years ago... it shows contempt for users to eat up a full gigabyte of disk space for a background application that uploads and downloads files."

Modern MacOS Upgrades Require Significant (56 GB) Free Disk Space
https://pxlnv.com/linklog/macos-upgrades-free-space/