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might be a form of Jevons Paradox (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Spotify, Steam

Balena Etcher is a software crime though.

[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Steam UI uses chromium embedded framework which saves 50% of the ram and startup time.

[–] slappyfuck@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What’s wrong with balena etcher?

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It’s hundreds of megabytes for something that unetbootin, image writer, and others do in a couple of MBs.

[–] slappyfuck@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh dang, is that the overheard of the software framework it uses? I think that’s what this thread was about but I can’t remember.

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

Yes, it’s built with electron. It’s a fancy web page and browser packaged as an app.