Tom Forsyth on Nostr: I am still confused by how in a modern OS I can't trivially limit how much CPU time, ...
I am still confused by how in a modern OS I can't trivially limit how much CPU time, disk bandwidth and network bandwidth an app gets to use. It should be right there in the Task Manager. Like - that's the whole point of an OS - to manage that stuff. So why not let ME THE USER manage that stuff?
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