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]

@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.

[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]

@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.

[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 🙂