Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG
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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!
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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 can sadly confirm that figure. A docker container with a scraper worker that starts internally a browser and does the whole Chaptcha bullshit comes at about 1.5-2.0GB depending on the website, so a fully interactive website with some history on memory at 2.0gb sounds reasonable with Chrome.And it doesn't sound too bad my router has 64GB nowadays.
But then I remember my first computer had 64KB RAM (and wasn't that huge) and a super fast 1Mhz 8 bit CPU.
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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.
@guilevi @fribbledom also to give you more adds, for sox.
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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 somehow deleted AUTOEXEC.BAT once
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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 "do I really need the CD driver? can I go without for game X?"
Gods what time that was.
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@fribbledom that's what a SOCKS proxy is made for... I think.
@dbrgn @fribbledom Boom! Boom!
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@hub8889 @ATLeagle @fribbledom Dual core CPU?
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what kinda socks we talkin about here
@gloriouscow @fribbledom obviously, Lockheed Martin Pride Socks.
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@hub8889 @ATLeagle @fribbledom Dual core CPU?
@NormanDunbar @hub8889 @ATLeagle @fribbledom
Whatever the opposite of SMP is -
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 @NormanDunbar
Files=40 Yes! -
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 but does the Browser tab require EMS vor XMS?
