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...
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@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!@jhx oooh for sure... and I love the dock. a real dock, where the laptop has a dedicated port on the bottom and connects to it without the dongle jungle mess of modern laptops.
potential fixes of imperfectness:
1. Framework laptop and similar
2. Gemini protocol web for simplicity
3. e-waste... sadly this is probably only going to get worse.
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@dch those are beautiful sentiments. makes me miss living in the Colorado rockies, hearing elk rutting during the autumn as they trample anyone and everyone's yard as they please...
and I miss going cross-country skiing out in the back-country, usually in the mornings before work... hopping up into my brother's lifted and absolutely freezing soft-top jeep, miss him too.
the simple things are critical, it's a good reminder.
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@jhx oooh for sure... and I love the dock. a real dock, where the laptop has a dedicated port on the bottom and connects to it without the dongle jungle mess of modern laptops.
potential fixes of imperfectness:
1. Framework laptop and similar
2. Gemini protocol web for simplicity
3. e-waste... sadly this is probably only going to get worse.
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Al centro visite dei radiotelescopi di Medicina, tracce preziose di antica tecnologia.
Quanta astronomia si è memorizzata su queste bobine a nastro, ormai sconosciute ai più! Eppure perfino le sponde Voyager ai confini estremi del Sistema Solare hanno dei registratori a nastro (orami fermi) al loro interno.
Onore a questa tecnologia ormai obsoleta alla quale però dobbiamo tantissimo!
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@stefano I wish for a future where home users entrusts a local IT technician to setup backups and other IT stuff rather than paying cloud subscriptions and throwing away their devices at the first malfunction.
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@stefano Oh, agreed. Even as a tech pro it's not easy. Earlier this year I started the process to de-Google. Not easy by any stretch of the imagination. It isn't so much dealing with Google's walled garden but the fact it's tech is integrated into so many other providers.
While I've moved my mail to a new and more ethical provider, I still have 566GB of stuff sitting in my Google Drive. While my new provider offers encrypted cloud storage, it is still *someone else's* data center. Though, it does inspire some confidence knowing they aren't a part of the NSA's PRISM Program.
There are other products I use which, upon registration, I used my Google account...which is also tied to my Android phone and TV.
Oh, and there's also Google Voice which I use for a variety of things including voicemail across my devices.
Given how tightly integrated companies are to Google (and/or other #bigtech players), it seems the only way to not be tangled in their thorn bushes is to never enter that garden. Ever.
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