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Re: Installing Every Arch Package

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Post by Spivak »

conaclos wrote: post #33

Please, stop using heavy images: bloated-kde.png is 3.2Mb... The image is still loading in the moment of writing... Same note for the website logo: render-small.gif is 4Mb. Still loading...

This kind of advice will never work because it requires people to remember to do it. The right approach is "whatever SSG you use add some code to generate different size images and then use srcset."

Re: Installing Every Arch Package

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Post by conaclos »

Spivak wrote: post #51
conaclos wrote: post #33

Please, stop using heavy images: bloated-kde.png is 3.2Mb... The image is still loading in the moment of writing... Same note for the website logo: render-small.gif is 4Mb. Still loading...

This kind of advice will never work because it requires people to remember to do it. The right approach is "whatever SSG you use add some code to generate different size images and then use srcset."

Another solution could be to test the website with different bandwidths. Modern browser have dedicated tools for that.

Re: Installing Every Arch Package

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Post by nimbius »

conaclos wrote: post #33

Please, stop using heavy images: bloated-kde.png is 3.2Mb... The image is still loading in the moment of writing... Same note for the website logo: render-small.gif is 4Mb. Still loading...

the guy just installed every package for arch. im...not entirely sure they comprehend the concept of bloat...

Re: Installing Every Arch Package

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Post by perihelions »

conaclos wrote: post #33

Please, stop using heavy images: bloated-kde.png is 3.2Mb... The image is still loading in the moment of writing... Same note for the website logo: render-small.gif is 4Mb. Still loading...

This page is an advertisement for uMatrix. I am seeing a perfectly readable, very elegant webpage in 37 kB of total network transfer. (It really is nice: the syntax highlighting is tasteful).

Permitting: 1p CSS; denying: everything else, including fonts (in uBlock).

Re: Installing Every Arch Package

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Post by globular-toast »

grapescheesee wrote: post #30
__del__ wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

i believe it's a rite of passage for any new linux user on a dpkg-based linux distribution to install synaptic and with it every possible package.

It is a lot more fun trying to see how many you can uninstall before it really breaks and how. Well mainly tried on Ubuntu. Best done from a separate TTY and watch the main X user window.

I managed to do that accidentally once. Whatever I was trying to do seemed to be taking a bit longer than usual and there was too much hard disk activity (come to think of it, I haven't had hard disks in my workstations for years and forget there used to be an audible way to tell that lots of IO was happening).

It was when things started to disappear from my desktop that I realised something was really wrong. I killed the process and assessed the damage. The only text editor left was vi (not vim). Using the apt log I was able to recover the system by simple reinstalling all packages it had uninstalled. Fun times.

Re: Installing Every Arch Package

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Post by theandrewbailey »

conaclos wrote: post #33

Please, stop using heavy images: bloated-kde.png is 3.2Mb... The image is still loading in the moment of writing... Same note for the website logo: render-small.gif is 4Mb. Still loading...

It seems that the site has changed. I'm loading less than 600k for this page (scripts, images, fonts... everything).
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