Post AcGeM9WHSEQft6MdYO by r00tobo@mstdn.social
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(DIR) Post #AcEdtEGQLcipt6Efy4 by nergal@linuxrocks.online
2023-11-27T14:55:30Z
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web browsers are the most inefficient, monstrous, overreaching applications on machines now. why does a static page require 300 megabytes to be presented?
(DIR) Post #AcEhF5kSzKz1i8P8SW by rose@linuxrocks.online
2023-11-27T15:32:52Z
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@nergal When an elephant stretches their trunk to grasp a proferred peanut, all three tons are implicated. That same trunk may pull down a tree later in the day.
(DIR) Post #AcEhpP5YYkMG7OaGLg by nergal@linuxrocks.online
2023-11-27T15:39:10Z
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@rose never seen an elephant pick a peanut while swimming. some platforms these browsers run on are like water. alpine linux + xorg + dwm barely use 100MB.
(DIR) Post #AcEiPvdB2sTrTHj54i by rose@linuxrocks.online
2023-11-27T15:46:02Z
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@nergal We've entered the age where 100MB can count as "barely."When I was getting started in computing, I spent a lot of time wire-wrapping sockets for 4kbit RAM chips. It was the golden age - those who came before me spent as much time wire-wrapping sockets for 1kbit chips.
(DIR) Post #AcEjbMJ4J2hzLOKoLY by nergal@linuxrocks.online
2023-11-27T15:59:24Z
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@rose but did that wire-wrapping include gui? first am hearing of wire-wrapping. when i just started computing, 16MB computers were quite common along with high and low ram. by the time mom brought home a pc, ram shot to 256MB and 98se was de facto.
(DIR) Post #AcEkLSFKYRtN5QZBJI by rose@linuxrocks.online
2023-11-27T16:07:46Z
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@nergal Back when I was wire-wrapping RAM sockets, the IBM-PC hadn't yet been introduced, so there was no MS-DOS much less any consumer GUIs. We already had the trackball, mouse, and CPM, which MS-DOS "borrowed" from.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_wrap
(DIR) Post #AcFDbBecuNXivoFiLo by sicko@linuxrocks.online
2023-11-27T21:35:36Z
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@nergal Because the marketing leeches added every single spyware script they could think of.
(DIR) Post #AcFdnbLRoYhKtPrV44 by nergal@linuxrocks.online
2023-11-28T02:29:13Z
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@sicko but i only use libre? the gemini probes do use less still. is the js addiction that stalls those ships.
(DIR) Post #AcGeM9WHSEQft6MdYO by r00tobo@mstdn.social
2023-11-28T14:08:29Z
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@nergal My PC fans start spinning outrageously the moment I open my web browser and more noticeably on JS sites like Mastodon. Browsers at the end of 2023 are an entire dedicated OS as a Virtual Machine so it's an OS inside a Host OS at this stage :sadlinux:
(DIR) Post #AcGePuLhnfPlzmCyv2 by r00tobo@mstdn.social
2023-11-28T14:09:26Z
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@nergal @sicko I think it's the JS
(DIR) Post #AcGoh6xbAFV1ZZm4n2 by nergal@linuxrocks.online
2023-11-28T16:05:50Z
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@r00tobo this is the picture