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		0xbadcafebee on April 11, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Windows 3.1 in my BIOS? It's more likely than you ... I get the retro chic of an old Windows OS, but you could also package a window manager, web browser, text editor, and more in a floppy disk into the late 2000s using Linux. Compared to the multiple gigs of OS files needed to run Android on my smartphone, it's almost inconceivable how wasteful modern software is.

Crinus on April 11, 2019 [–]

That is what you get for using 4096x4096 sized alpha blended HDR bitmaps for the icons and animated emojis on your 5" QUHD phone :-P.

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