Software bloat Memes

Bloat Is Goat

21 days ago 177.4K views 0 shares

The evolution of programming efficiency is hilariously tragic. In 1975, Chad programmers hand-optimized machine code to squeeze games into kilobytes. By 2000, we'd accepted some bloat for productivity with high-level languages. Fast forward to 2025, and we've got "programmers" creating calculator apps that consume 1GB of RAM because they've stuffed 69 frameworks into an Electron wrapper. Meanwhile, they're busy impressing AI girlfriends while Microsoft casually commits open-source theft. We went from calculating trajectories to the moon on 4KB of RAM to needing 16GB just to run VS Code without crashing. Progress™

Every Time After Right-Clicking On A Local File

Windows Hardware Microsoft Programming

1 month ago 159.4K views 0 shares

Every Time After Right-Clicking On A Local File

Your computer is basically a supercomputer by 1990s standards - 32 cores, 32GB RAM, 2TB NVMe drive that could store the entire Library of Congress. Yet somehow Windows Explorer still takes 5 seconds to show you a right-click menu on a text file. The machine that could theoretically simulate nuclear explosions is brought to its knees by a context menu. The ultimate reminder that no matter how far technology advances, software will always find a way to waste every last resource you throw at it.

Enshittification Of Software

Programming Webdev Agile Frontend Backend

1 month ago 157.0K views 0 shares

A pig wallowing in mud with "O,RLY?" at the top is the perfect metaphor for modern software development. What starts as elegant code inevitably turns into bloated, subscription-based garbage swimming in a sea of dark patterns and unnecessary features. Remember when apps were just... apps? Now they're "experiences" that demand your firstborn child and lifetime data rights. The "O,RLY?" is that perfect sarcastic response when some PM tells you "users want this" while shoving another analytics package into your once-beautiful codebase. The circle of software life: useful → profitable → ruined. Tale as old as time.

They Are Multiplying

Microsoft Windows

1 month ago 176.3K views 0 shares

Microsoft's solution to email clients is apparently to keep creating new versions without ever retiring the old ones. At this point, choosing which Outlook to use is harder than fixing a race condition. Classic version for nostalgia, PWA for those who enjoy living dangerously, and regular Outlook for masochists who enjoy random feature removals with each update. Pretty soon we'll have "Outlook (Quantum)" that both works and doesn't work until you observe it.

Bloatware At Its Best

Windows Programming Debugging

1 month ago 136.2K views 0 shares

Oh. My. GOD. The absolute AUDACITY of those cleaning apps! 💀 Here I am, a sophisticated developer who's been RELIGIOUSLY deleting every cleaning app that dares to appear on my system because they're just resource-hogging PARASITES that do NOTHING but give you the illusion of optimization while secretly plotting to steal your RAM! And now you're telling me some people actually USE them?! The BETRAYAL! The SCANDAL! It's like finding out people still use Internet Explorer BY CHOICE! Next thing you'll tell me is that someone actually reads those Terms of Service agreements! *dramatically faints onto keyboard*

The 51-Year Development Delay

Microsoft Windows Programming Debugging

1 month ago 245.8K views 0 shares

Accidentally launching full Visual Studio instead of VS Code is like embarking on an interstellar journey when you just wanted to go to the corner store. The meme perfectly captures that moment of existential dread when you realize your computer's RAM is about to be consumed by a software behemoth that takes longer to load than continental drift. By the time Visual Studio finishes initializing, your deadline will have passed, your coffee will be cold, and humanity will have colonized Mars. The difference between these two IDEs is basically the difference between bringing a nuclear warhead or a pocket knife to slice an apple.

Different Times: When Game Developers Evolved Backwards

Gamedev Hardware Unity Programming

2 months ago 163.9K views 0 shares

Different Times: When Game Developers Evolved Backwards

Remember when game devs were literal coding demigods who could squeeze a full RollerCoaster Tycoon into Assembly language and fit shooters into kilobytes? Now we've got bearded dudes stealing breast milk while shipping 500GB games that still need a "day one patch" bigger than entire operating systems from the 90s. Modern AAA game development has truly evolved from "how can we optimize this to run on a potato?" to "just buy a new PC, peasant." And don't forget the always-online single player games because heaven forbid you enjoy content you paid for without a constant internet connection. The industry went from "first few levels free as shareware" to "that'll be $70 plus $20 for the season pass, $15 for the cosmetic DLC, and $10 for the soundtrack we removed from the base game."

Put It Back Now

Programming Webdev Debugging Frontend

3 months ago 123.0K views 0 shares

THE ABSOLUTE AUDACITY of Opera GX thinking they could just REMOVE a sacred fried egg image from their code! 💅 First they're like "we saved a WHOLE 18kb" as if that's something to brag about in our terabyte era. Then the ENTIRE INTERNET collectively loses its mind and demands justice for the egg that's been secretly lurking in their files since 2019! The fact that a browser had to publicly apologize to an EGG and then ceremoniously restore it to its rightful place is peak software development drama. This is why we can't have nice things... or smaller file sizes apparently!

Java: Making Things Suck Since 1995

Java Programming Backend

3 months ago 108.0K views 0 shares

The Java logo has become the universal symbol for "this will make anything unnecessarily complex and resource-hungry, but somehow still work." Slap that bad boy on a broken appliance, and suddenly it's not just a vacuum—it's an enterprise-grade dust acquisition system with 16GB memory requirements and three dependency injection frameworks. The only thing missing is the vacuum asking if you want to update it every 3 minutes while you're trying to clean.

The Eternal Hardware-Software Cycle Of Doom

Programming Hardware Algorithms Debugging Frontend

4 months ago 150.5K views 1 shares

The Eternal Hardware-Software Cycle Of Doom

The eternal cycle of developer suffering, illustrated through classical art! When you have slow processors, you're forced to write efficient, elegant code. Then your good code unlocks better hardware, which inevitably leads to lazy developers writing spaghetti monstrosities because "hey, we've got processing power to spare!" Then that bloated nightmare code brings even the beefiest machines to their knees, and we're back to square one. It's the circle of technical debt that's been happening since the dawn of computing. Writing optimized code on limited hardware? Noble and disciplined. Having fast processors that run garbage code? Pure decadence that ends in flames. The hardware-software ouroboros continues to eat its own tail for eternity.

The RAM Hunger Games

Windows Webdev Microsoft Programming Debugging

4 months ago 204.8K views 0 shares

The evolution of RAM-hungry applications, illustrated by increasingly fancy Winnie the Pooh: First, we blame Windows for hogging our RAM. Then Chrome enters the chat with its tab-per-gigabyte appetite. Discord slides in with its "simple chat app" that somehow needs more resources than early space missions. Firefox joins the party pretending to be the lightweight alternative while silently devouring your memory. And then there's Visual Studio 2022 – the final boss of RAM consumption. The IDE that makes you question if you really need both kidneys or if selling one for more RAM might be a sensible career investment. The real joke? We keep buying more RAM instead of demanding better software. Stockholm syndrome, developer edition.

Time To Underclock My CPU To Meet Doom's Minimum Requirements

Gamedev Hardware Programming

4 months ago 141.8K views 1 shares

Time To Underclock My CPU To Meet Doom's Minimum Requirements

Ah, the irony of modern gaming. Your 3.30 GHz CPU is too powerful for a game that once ran on machines that couldn't even stream a cat GIF. Imagine having to sabotage your own hardware because some developer didn't account for the fact that computers have evolved since 1993. It's like buying a Ferrari and then removing the engine because the parking space is designed for a tricycle. The cherry on top is that 74.80 GB requirement - original DOOM fit on a few floppy disks, but now we need half a hard drive just to render the same demons in slightly higher resolution. Progress!

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