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PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading
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#322noscript, ublock origin, reader view: the referenced page loads in 2s on a bad connection and downloads no ads while remaining perfectly readable.
Browsing and not using these tools nowadays is volunteering for a bad time, IMO.
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#323Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is absolutely disgusting that even today it is impossible to stop video autoplay on Safari on iOS. I can't image the data wasted.
Settings, Accessibility, Motion, switch off Auto-Play preview videos is supposed to do the trick for System Apps (including messages, safari etc). Untested since I run my phone via Wireguard to my home network and block everything there.
This is incorrect. The setting does not apply to Safari. It's for App Store, for example.
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#324Earlier quoted context omitted.
They’re already given unlimited data? It just gets throttled the 2G speeds. They can also just go to the local library or Starbucks for the WiFi if they need more.
2G speeds isn't really full access to "the internet" for some parts of the internet. My experience with 2G speeds is: 1. Open job application site 2. Upload resume pdf 3. Upload required picture of ID 4. Server's nginx config has a hard-coded timeout after 1 minute. Connection error 5. Try to upload again 6. Connection error A huge number of pieces of the web have hardcoded timeouts and limits designed to stop slowlo…
I tried to explain slow loris to a non technical friend, he thought I was joking. The concept of the internet in this day and age is very "cloudy" for a regular user, all pun intended.
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#325Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Three days into the month these phones are just ewaste. If someone needs a phone like this for email and job searching and has no other option, 2G speeds will work. It’s not e-waste for the intended purpose. It would be great if they got higher days caps, though, because let’s be realistic in acknowledging that they’re not only going to use it for Google Maps, email, and job search apps.
How are they supposed to know which job search platforms (app or web) aren’t going to blow their bandwidth limits?
Non technical people are afraid to block adds on their Android device since Google might find out about it and decides to eliminate their account; I was not able to convince them otherwise.
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#326Earlier quoted context omitted.
> They now give you free 3G and it's bearable Note that many European countries have already got rid of their 3G networks completely [0]. So it's either "you have 4G/5G" or "the internet is pretty much unusable", nothing in between. As someone living in a European country with no 3G network, my experience with mobile data is that when my phone fails to find a 4G signal and switches to 2G (pretty much only happens in…
Add New Zealand to the places that have turned off 3G.
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Re: PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading
#327At this point, if you browse the internet without an adblock; it is on YOU.
Victim blaming.
Well, he's right in the context of HN audience. But normies are people too, and so are children, and so are 90-year-old grandmas who want to stay in touch with younger family members. If we don't push back against the brainrot, it may very well run our society into the ground.
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#328Re: PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading
#329Earlier quoted context omitted.
Talking about (electronic-)waste, what’s choking is how much resources are required to do the same or less than what used to be possible with far more humble hardware and bandwidth, all that in living memory. Sure part of "software fills space like a gas" can be explained by "got to go fast to stay ahead on the market", but at some point it’s blatant negligence of frugality where it’s providing overall economical ben…
> it’s blatant negligence of frugality where it’s providing overall economical benefits. Recently tried to alter a phone plan on EE’s website, something that should have involved a few clicks. It was slow (literal seconds to open a page) and clunky. The Javascript console was bleeding error messages, and it looked like they’d used every Javascript framework under the sun. And after all that it just gave me an error m…
I think a basic principle with limited plans that offer the ability to buy extra data is "You should be able to actually load the account platform at the 2G hobbled speeds in order to pay". The heavyweight website/app for the mobile network, combined with the use of a phone number-tied Android login as primary login credential rather than a user account, it meant that the only way to actually get 4G back online was to have access to wifi on the phone in the place & time you needed to re-up; If I did have that access at work, I wouldn't need the data.
Despite years of being too lazy/anxious to figure out phone number portability, I ultimately ended up switching carriers from Simple to Mint because it was just too annoying.
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#330+1 for FreshRSS (recommended at the bottom of the PC Gamer article). I just started my mass migration to self-hosting (it's way better in 2026 than it used to be), and I'm very pleased with the FreshRSS webapp and NetNewsWire integration. I consider it a solid hedge against enshittification. I probably won't go full self-hosting, but I'm enjoying the move.