Oh my, the modern web is so bloated/overloaded

[jhx@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

Oh my, the modern web is so bloated/overloaded.
My Thinkpad x260 (Yoga) is dying while playing a Youtube video... let alone dropping a lot of frames.
I know, the CPU is older (i5-6200U) but come on - this is crazy.

I've set the notebook up to play around with #FreeBSD on the desktop some more. Running #Xfce currently and having some dev stuff installed.
#FreeBSD handles the notebook like a champ, everything works... sadly that is not the same for using the web with a modern browser.
720p playbook loads up the CPU at a constant 50/60%.
Well, at least surfing the web is kinda ok... but not great tbh.

Times really have changed... for the worse in some aspects.
I still remember surfing the web back than with a tiny AMD single core CPU - which was more then enough.

Enough ranting.

[winterschon@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

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[jhx@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@winterschon
The x260 is a nice laptop for sure!
Yeah, same here. Thermal shutdown so far has been avoided - the CPU still manages quite well.
But of course: One can feel the weight of the "modern" web.
The bloat is on another level nowadays... sadly.
We should go back to text only websites in pure HTML and a little CSS - at most some pictures. That would fair us all a lot better.
Let alone the massive e-waste created by planned obsolescense...
Well, the world we live in sure is crazy!

[winterschon@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

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[jhx@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@winterschon
Indeed, a great machine for sure!

That would fix quite some of the problems we face. I see all these cheap laptops at work which are obsolete when they leave the factory (We don't recommend these... but customers want cheap stuff always - sadly)
Gemini would be a great alternative!
The e-waste debacle is sadly too real.
Maybe someday we will all own modular/hackable devices that don't get obsoleted when sold.
Well, we can dream at least 🙂