Oh my, the modern web is so bloated/overloaded
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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.
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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.
@jhx It's true, the bloat is crazy. I too have an X260 (maxed with RAM and the higher spec i7, and enterprise SSD)... It will drive a single 4K but forget about doing so with screen-sharing on zoom/etc. Thermal shutdown occurs too often, mostly resolved by disassembly to clean all of the intake/fan/ducting and replace the old CPU paste with something higher spec.
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@jhx It's true, the bloat is crazy. I too have an X260 (maxed with RAM and the higher spec i7, and enterprise SSD)... It will drive a single 4K but forget about doing so with screen-sharing on zoom/etc. Thermal shutdown occurs too often, mostly resolved by disassembly to clean all of the intake/fan/ducting and replace the old CPU paste with something higher spec.
@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! -
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oh holy smokes, /proc/cpuinfo says this is a 3.2 ghz cpu. i assumed this machine was somewhere closer to 1 ghz
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Le armi autonome di Anduril inciampano nei test e nei combattimenti, riporta il WSJ
Secondo un nuovo rapporto del Wall Street Journal, la startup tecnologica per la difesa Anduril Industries ha dovuto affrontare numerosi inconvenienti durante i test dei suoi sistemi d'arma autonomi. Tra i problemi citati figurano oltre una dozzina di imbarcazioni senza pilota che hanno fallito durante un'esercitazione della Marina al largo della California a maggio, con i marinai che hanno segnalato violazioni della sicurezza e potenziali perdite di vite umane; un problema meccanico che ha danneggiato il motore del caccia a reazione senza pilota Fury di Anduril durante un test a terra estivo; e un test ad agosto del suo sistema anti-drone Anvil che ha causato un incendio di 22 acri in Oregon.
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and that last point might really just be a case for getting a GPU for that machine
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Anche oggi articolo interessante su Il Sole:
è buffo quanto il "capitalismo colonialista" europeo sembri un topolino impazzito nel tentativo di reinventarsi, ma provando a continuare ad applicare le proprie logiche a un altro mondo (quasi un miliardo e mezzo di abitanti, ribadiamolo) che, con tutte le sue contraddizioni, non ha niente a che vedere con quello di vent'anni fa.
OT: a margine, De Agostini si è comprato 42% di Legami?
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my main takeaways from this exercise so far are 1) I'm a long ways off from ever needing to optimize the audio thread performance; none of my patches are complex enough yet for it to be problematic that I'm still just chaining a few dozen lambdas together passing around doubles through a long chain of shared pointers at 48000khz 2) until polyphony makes me eat my words, the benefit of doing so will mostly be in improving battery life on my laptop, and 3) the UI perf has room for improvement
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glxinfo -B reports this machine has hardware accelerated 3D graphics supporting a maximum GL core version of 0.0 (and compat version of 2.1) so I guess for all intensive porpoises this machine does not in fact have hardware accelerated 3D graphics anymore
I didn't check, but I'm guessing SDL picked the software rendering pipeline, because the UI was a bit sluggish. however! all of the patches I tried played just fine, so the Core 2 Duo can handle the synth pipeline which is the important part
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Good thing we learned something from the COVID-19 pandemic then, uh? Uh?
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@kaia ROTFL
