Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG
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Wool or cotton?
In the future, everyone will be judged by the material used for the socks they wear.@syferdet @fribbledom In the future?
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Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to fit everything into 640 KB.
Now one browser tab needs 2 GB of RAM so 17 analytics companies can find out I looked at socks.
@fribbledom best part is the ads they show you won't be anything related to socks.
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Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to fit everything into 640 KB.
Now one browser tab needs 2 GB of RAM so 17 analytics companies can find out I looked at socks.
@fribbledom ah! A happy childhood!
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@fribbledom@mastodon.social Me and my 1320 partners are asking your permission to put a cookie in your browser to grant you the privilege to display 5KB of our precious ai generated content on our 85MB web page.
@lord @fribbledom We care about your privacy. Here’s a list of our 970 partners.
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Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to fit everything into 640 KB.
Now one browser tab needs 2 GB of RAM so 17 analytics companies can find out I looked at socks.
well said
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@fribbledom Sure, but think about how very much more surveillance that tab can do!
@GeePawHill @fribbledom Recently spoke with an old friend and he was like "I miss the days when I knew exactly why the activity led on my hard drive or floppy was flickering."
I agree.
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Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to fit everything into 640 KB.
Now one browser tab needs 2 GB of RAM so 17 analytics companies can find out I looked at socks.
@fribbledom They don't have construction materials in Europe either?
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Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to fit everything into 640 KB.
Now one browser tab needs 2 GB of RAM so 17 analytics companies can find out I looked at socks.
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Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to fit everything into 640 KB.
Now one browser tab needs 2 GB of RAM so 17 analytics companies can find out I looked at socks.
@fribbledom remember, exTENDed memory TENDs to be useful, while exPanded memory is Practically useless.
Back in those days I regularly had to talk sewerage workers through editing CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to get the data from their gas safety monitors to upload. There was only one editor guaranteed to be installed on their computers, edlin -- which could be a challenge.
Funny enough, unlike a few of our directors, not one of them had any problems following the instructions over the phone.
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@fribbledom@mastodon.social Me and my 1320 partners are asking your permission to put a cookie in your browser to grant you the privilege to display 5KB of our precious ai generated content on our 85MB web page.
1320 cookies, at 20g at cookie it's 24.6Kg of cookies... that's a lot of cookies... -
Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to fit everything into 640 KB.
Now one browser tab needs 2 GB of RAM so 17 analytics companies can find out I looked at socks.
@fribbledom yeah... I think if I had to pinpoint a defining moment for my vocation as a professional computer toucher, teenage me successfully getting Wing Commander 3 to run would probably be it! (Damn you, Mitsumi CD-ROM drive!!)
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Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to fit everything into 640 KB.
Now one browser tab needs 2 GB of RAM so 17 analytics companies can find out I looked at socks.
@fribbledom I feel very seen right now.
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@fribbledom just starting Firefox on a Ubuntu machine with 4GB RAM mostly ends up with a crash. I remember times when I cherished the Firebird browser on my thumbstick and used it on whatever computer I was sitting on.
@alesroubicek @fribbledom if you're interested, I set up xububtu on an old netbook with 1GB of ram, and found Firefox can still be really fast, but their current defaults blow chunks. Some of it is telemetry (and now AI), some of it is dumb choices. If you mess around with the settings it can easily be as fast as you remember.
I think from memory this is the guide I used:
https://linuxreviews.org/HOWTO_Make_Mozilla_Firefox_Blazing_Fast_On_Linux
Apologies for dropping in with unasked-for advice.
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Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to fit everything into 640 KB.
Now one browser tab needs 2 GB of RAM so 17 analytics companies can find out I looked at socks.
@fribbledom Ah, it was nice to have that much time. And the occasional defrag run!
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@alesroubicek @fribbledom if you're interested, I set up xububtu on an old netbook with 1GB of ram, and found Firefox can still be really fast, but their current defaults blow chunks. Some of it is telemetry (and now AI), some of it is dumb choices. If you mess around with the settings it can easily be as fast as you remember.
I think from memory this is the guide I used:
https://linuxreviews.org/HOWTO_Make_Mozilla_Firefox_Blazing_Fast_On_Linux
Apologies for dropping in with unasked-for advice.
@BoysenberryCider @fribbledom thanks, I removed the GUI completely from that machine and use it as a server.
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Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to fit everything into 640 KB.
Now one browser tab needs 2 GB of RAM so 17 analytics companies can find out I looked at socks.
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@fribbledom best part is the ads they show you won't be anything related to socks.
@deepfryed or socks you just purchased
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@fribbledom I was so proud when I could carry TWO Linux kernels on a single 3 inch floppy. 2 gigs on a tab is so obscene
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Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to fit everything into 640 KB.
Now one browser tab needs 2 GB of RAM so 17 analytics companies can find out I looked at socks.
@fribbledom only to suggest you buy a weirdly shaped object. they don't even use all that data they collect in a way that would advance anything!
