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How web bloat impacts users with slow devices
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Re: How web bloat impacts users with slow devices
#612Dan's point about being aware of the different levels of inequality in the world is something I strongly agree with, but that should also include the middle-income countries, especially in Latin America and Southeast Asia. For example, a user with a data plan with a monthly limit in the single-digit GBs, and a RAM/CPU profile resembling a decade-old US flagship. That's good enough to use Discourse at all, but the exp…
Could you elaborate on features and polish, i.e. give some specific examples?
What I meant was, I'm pretty sure most of what is considered features and polish today would greatly improve my experience if it were removed...
Re: How web bloat impacts users with slow devices
#613A problem that recently started in Feb 2024 for me is probably unrelated to the topic, but close enough that I'm posting in the hopes someone has an idea of what is happening. I am running on a relatively new Lenovo Legion (~ 18 months old) with 64kb of ram running windows 11. About 6 weeks ago I began getting the BSOD every time I streamed a live hockey game (I watch maybe 3 games a week from Oct to Jun via Comcast…
> with 64kb of ram running windows 11 I hope you mean GB.
haha... yea, I was a bit off
As an aside, I'll use this as a way to update my post. I found a discussion of someone having a similar problem and turns out it was a windows office driver relating to automatic office updates. I turned it off which has resolved the issue.