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Software bloat? This elevator needs an 8GB Core i5
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And that’s basically it!
The problem is inefficency exacerbated by the requirement of pesky things like graphics
Decent chance they are running windows 10 or 11 and running some web browser app for getting and displaying whatever its supposed to. Thats probably several levels of isolation for something thats already trusted
With a nice user interface noone is going to ever be looking at unless something stops working
Significantly cheaper to develop at the expence of performance
Even with graphics, you can simply compare the performance and colors of what you had back in the 90s with the bloated bullshit of today - the only exception being video, stuff today much better compressed with low quality loss. On the other hand, electron.
4k definition in screens below 16" is wasteful beyond belief.
Do they make less than 4k definition on 16" screens any more?