Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG
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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?
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@fribbledom
Given how much money I just paid for 64 GiB of DDR5 ECC RDIMMs, I'm going to start billing all web sites that run JavaScript on my computer.@brouhaha @fribbledom We all should. Want my data? Want my compute and memory? You pay for it.
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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 DOS 6.22 memmaker; good times
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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 640 KB? Luxury!
When I were a lad, I used to have to write x=10 rather than x = 10 so that I could fit everything into 16 KB.
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@fribbledom I hated that the guy in the electronics shop thought he had to explain usb stick sizes to me because I was a clueless old lady, not because my first computer had 16K of RAM and a cassette tape. 128 gig of storage the size of a car key blows my mind.
@artemis @fribbledom I still remember the first person I knew who had a 1 gig hard drive. I was so confused--'what are you going to do with all that space?'
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@artemis @fribbledom I still remember the first person I knew who had a 1 gig hard drive. I was so confused--'what are you going to do with all that space?'
@clonedhuman @artemis @fribbledom My first hard drive was 20 MB!
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@clonedhuman @artemis @fribbledom My first hard drive was 20 MB!
@BoloMKXXVIII @clonedhuman @fribbledom SO MUCH SPACE
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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 Which was it now? Expanded memory or extended memory?
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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 and this amount of "partners" is considered low, by current standards ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
