Holy shit, the iOS update 26.4 wants me download 11GB of data, a mobile OS

stux :stux_santa:

@harld @chasalin Ha! The universe itself runs on Doom! Doomiverse technically

Harld

I love playing Doom while I get some money from the ATM.

Playing DOOM On An ATM

There aren’t too many details available about this hack, but we still thought it was interesting enough to share. YouTube user [Aussie50] seems to have figured out a way to install DOOM on an…

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Tyrine

@stux@mstdn.social Sometimes I miss when an operating system was a set of interrupt handlers that you'd add to the the single floppy disk that also contained your entire software application.

No... often, actually.

stux :stux_santa:

@harld @chasalin Woom!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1gcoyo5Ssk

lb1a

@stux is the disk bigger by default these days? Or are these updates just creeping away the precious gigabytes?

Harld

@stux @chasalin

Brilliant move.

Wiredfire

@stux Another reason I’m happy to be hanging back on iOS 18 for as long as a sensibly can

Thomas Klein

@stux

But you asked for all the AI slop to be soldered into it, didn't you?
Oh, wait...

aria :blobcattrans:

@stux If an OS image is more than 3-4GB in size, the developers have failed

aria :blobcattrans:

@chasalin @harld @stux 68KB of memory is below DOOM's minimum requirements, I'm pretty sure.

aria :blobcattrans:

@chasalin @harld @stux It needs 4MB from what I can find

Darkpaw

@sayonaraminasan @stux I have an iPhone 15 Pro Max on iOS 18 that will not be updated to iOS 26, partly because I need it for developing apps, but also because iOS 26 is not very nice. It's all just fancy schmancy nonsense instead of what we need. While iOS might've needed a refresh, Liquid Glass was not the answer. It's got so many bugs and issues that won't get fixed. We're 5 months after release, and obvious bugs aren't fixed.

Apple's developers moved onto iOS 27. This is how it goes now.

さよなら皆さん

@darkpaw same bro. Phone does what I need as it. I can only imagine that performance will be worse if I update it.

G 🇮🇹

@stux @andypiper I remember running win98 with 64MB RAM

houtig

@stux some work iPads can't update. The os and downloaded update leaves to little space...

Alwyn Soh :mastodonsg:

@stux remember when iPhone at 8GB and were like so much space!

Michael Santaly

@stux I feel like they intentionally make them large so customers run out of storage and need to upgrade

Botolo

@stux I remember Pac-Man being 24 kb

Wandering Adventure Party

Holy shit, the iOS update 26.4 wants me download 11GB of data, a mobile OS

Playing DOOM On An ATM

Playing DOOM On An ATM