Where does all the money from the bloated tuition costs end up? Is it the university endowments? Why not tax that, and return money to the students? Why does the rest of society have to pay for it?
It it used to pay tenure-track professors more than they would make otherwise, to hire more professors, and especially to hire more administrators at munificent salaries.
But is it really necesary to use the such a bloated piece of software as a web browser? i think it would be better to discard the whole web and replace it with the gemini protocol.
It can do 99.99% of what you use the web for with less resource usage. you can implement your own gemini client in 100 lines of code.
For the remainder 0.01% of stuff, use a dedicated application. Dont trust it? Use it with docker or similar.
As far as Im concerned all the browser bloat is worse than useless. Much of it is just to spy on you. Im sure these dedicated spying apps, you call web browsers, are deliberately full of security holes so they can upload your data to their servers
The web browser is one of humanities greatest achievements and I don't mean that ironically.
The more you understand about the modern web browser and how stunningly powerful it is, the more you should be amazed.
And far from bloated, the modern web browser is trim and fast given the unbelievable feature range.
And if you don't trust something you're free not to use it.
When I see Chrome or Firefox and I deeply gladdened.
Go back 25 years and any time you wanted to do something at the user interface in any context it was hard and glitchy and maybe couldn't be done at all. Want to do something in a user interface today? Chances are the browser can do it.
Truly breathtakingly beautiful and powerful software and I love it.
Hammer2 might be more suitable to storing billions of files efficiently: it supports online and batched deduplication, snapshots, directory entry indexing, multiple mountable filesystem roots, mountable snapshots, a low memory footprint, compression, encryption, zero-detection, data and metadata checksumming, and synchronization to other filesystems or nodes.
