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Re: Same. Leaving Apple Hardware

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Post by jwells89 »

jauntywundrkind wrote: post #30
jwells89 wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s illuminating to try to use a late-era Core 2 Duo (or even Core 2 Quad) machine for all web browsing for a day. Given a cheap SSD upgrade, these systems can handle Windows 10 or a modern Linux distro perfectly well, but the web can bring them to their knees pretty easily. You quickly learn which sites to avoid, but even nominally “good” sites are still sluggish.

My gods what a bunch of sabotaging sissys. Runs fine on my machine! The site I linked is the specs for the very low powered ( Y'all are astroturfing for offense! Get over yourselves! Quit faking your issues! If this low power, crap, 8 year old cpu is fine y'all should be too! Y'all are desperate to appear unhappy & distressed, and it's either in genuine shilling against acceptance for bullshit (anti-)reasons (you des…

I don’t dislike the web. Quite the opposite, in fact. It’s got serious problems that tend to get swept under the rug and ignored as the industry churns away though, and those problems aren’t going to be fixed if nobody is talking about them. These aren’t protests against the web, but rather against the direction its development has taken in the past decade and change (one might note that this expression of dissatisfaction was much more rare in say 2007).

The web is great, but it’s not (yet) a panacea and it can’t become one without pressure to improve.

Re: Same. Leaving Apple Hardware

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Post by nunez »

> I don't use the NYtimes app; though I pay for a subscription. I do not accept advertising into my life. I think its wrong to let wealthy people have a shot at manipulating me. I trust the nytimes journalistic standards but not their advertising.

Manipulation is just the act of purposefully invoking an emotion. I think it's important to realize that manipulation is everywhere, all of the time.

The author remarked that he made a social media app for his kid to "understand." Getting his kid to use the app? That's manipulation!

The kid telling him "no" when he actually means "yes" or "not sure, but what happens if I say no"? That's also manipulation!

Traveling to the grocery store and looking at literally any product on a shelf? Manipulation masterclass.[0]

Reading _literally any_ article on the New York Times? This literal comment? You already know.

Thus, I think that rejecting advertising on the grounds of manipulation by "wealthy people" is misguided [1]. I personally go out of my way to block ads and trackers because I think they are extremely creepy, can suck bandwidth and slow page load times (if implemented poorly; many are) and can be vectors for malware.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2741065/

[1] You don't have to be rich to run an ad campaign. In fact, many companies that are on their last legs are some of the ones that spend the most!

Re: Same. Leaving Apple Hardware

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Post by catchnear4321 »

smoldesu wrote: post #25
catchnear4321 wrote: post #24

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so you won’t then. you are forgiven. it’s important to stop playing silly games of red versus blue from time to time. but carry on. what star are you from? or would you say the whole circle.

https://paulgraham.com/disagree.html

sometimes loss is good

Re: Same. Leaving Apple Hardware

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Post by sfryxell »

frfl wrote: post #18
jauntywundrkind wrote: post #14

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These feel to me like low complaints. Maybe sometimes, perhaps. Poor code will probably lurk on most platforms, and maybe maybe maybe the web has a bit more, fine, point scored in your zero sum game. But this is so far away from the defining relevant concerns of software architecture. It's such a simple winge, doing only extremely primitive software analysis. And it doesn't hold for 99.99% of my web experience. My da…

The linked website literally causes my fan and cpu, and I'm assuming the commenter's fan cpu too, to go to 100%. Anyone running the latest and greatest hardware will likely never notice. But 99% of the world doesn't run the latest and greatest. I think there's some irony in all this.

This was great feedback

https://github.com/scott-fryxell/scott-fryxell.github.io/com...

Re: Same. Leaving Apple Hardware

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Post by sfryxell »

jwells89 wrote: post #20
frfl wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The linked website literally causes my fan and cpu, and I'm assuming the commenter's fan cpu too, to go to 100%. Anyone running the latest and greatest hardware will likely never notice. But 99% of the world doesn't run the latest and greatest. I think there's some irony in all this.

It’s illuminating to try to use a late-era Core 2 Duo (or even Core 2 Quad) machine for all web browsing for a day. Given a cheap SSD upgrade, these systems can handle Windows 10 or a modern Linux distro perfectly well, but the web can bring them to their knees pretty easily. You quickly learn which sites to avoid, but even nominally “good” sites are still sluggish.

well. The feedback helps. The site should be rocket fast for everyone again.

https://github.com/scott-fryxell/scott-fryxell.github.io/com...

Re: Same. Leaving Apple Hardware

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Post by frfl »

sfryxell wrote: post #36
frfl wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The linked website literally causes my fan and cpu, and I'm assuming the commenter's fan cpu too, to go to 100%. Anyone running the latest and greatest hardware will likely never notice. But 99% of the world doesn't run the latest and greatest. I think there's some irony in all this.

This was great feedback https://github.com/scott-fryxell/scott-fryxell.github.io/com...

Thanks!

I'm assuming svg is more compute heavy, especially with animations and when its big.

Maybe a gif might work if you want to keep the animation? You'd probaby want to look at how to make it high quality and small[1]

Maybe a gif with dithering[2] might look nice?

[1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=blog+making+small+gifs+high+...

[2]: https://marmoset.co/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Dither_upres2...

Re: Same. Leaving Apple Hardware

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Post by sfryxell »

frfl wrote: post #38
sfryxell wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This was great feedback https://github.com/scott-fryxell/scott-fryxell.github.io/com...

Thanks! I'm assuming svg is more compute heavy, especially with animations and when its big. Maybe a gif might work if you want to keep the animation? You'd probaby want to look at how to make it high quality and small[1] Maybe a gif with dithering[2] might look nice? [1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=blog+making+small+gifs+high+... [2]: https://marmoset.co/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Dither_upres2...

I think I was just showing off. The vectors are just fine without the animation. They are a setting I had on inside realness. on a blog that's for reading they are a distraction and turn oppressive without the option to disable.

Thanks again.

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