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   halva(0) (halva@wetdry.world)'s status on Saturday, 17-Feb-2024 05:12:44 JST halva(0)

   HOT TAKE

   FRONT END DEVELOPERS SHOULD BE BANNED FROM USING THEIR HARDWARE FOR A MONTH EACH YEAR AND INSTEAD GIVEN A LOW END 10 YEARS OLD NETBOOK

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Saturday, 17-Feb-2024 05:12:43 JST SuperDicq

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     @halva@wetdry.world I am a professional software developer and I work on a Thinkpad released in 2008.

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Saturday, 17-Feb-2024 05:23:06 JST SuperDicq

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     @halva@wetdry.world This laptop's graphical capabilities are so bad that it can't even use the modern Youtube UI while playing a video at more than 10 fps, which honestly is a good thing because it forces me to use a lightweight frontend like Invidious.

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Saturday, 17-Feb-2024 05:23:58 JST SuperDicq

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

     @lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me @halva@wetdry.world Foundkey works fine because it is a little bit lighter on the bloat than Misskey. I do have to turn off all the animations and such of course.

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Saturday, 17-Feb-2024 05:23:59 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • SuperDicq
     @SuperDicq @halva Can misskey's frontend even load on it?
     It's painfully slow on my 2019 thinkpad.
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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Saturday, 17-Feb-2024 05:26:40 JST SuperDicq

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

     @halva@wetdry.world @lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me Misskey (or Foundkey in my case) is honestly not even that bad.
     
     Last week I wanted to create a Github account for some work related thing and the signup page (https://github.com/signup) has these moving stars in the background and it literally slowed down my entire computer to 2 FPS and I just kinda gave up. Just their signup page alone is 100 times worse than Misskey.

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     halva(0) (halva@wetdry.world)'s status on Saturday, 17-Feb-2024 05:26:41 JST halva(0)

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     • SuperDicq

     @lanodan @SuperDicq my asus x555lb starts SCREAMING the instant i open any mk instance, that fucking webapp is legit cursed

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     narcolepsy and alcoholism :flag: (hj@shigusegubu.club)'s status on Saturday, 17-Feb-2024 05:28:58 JST narcolepsy and alcoholism :flag:

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     @halva meanwhile me: I fear that my js code that runs on my monster machine for 300ms would run for 3s on shitachine I should grab my craptop just to test
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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Saturday, 17-Feb-2024 05:31:02 JST SuperDicq

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

     @halva@wetdry.world @lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me My Thinkpad X200 can actually output 4k@30fps over display port using the docking station believe it or not.
     
     I have a 4k screen at work but I force the resolution to 1600x900 to make things smoother.

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Saturday, 17-Feb-2024 05:31:36 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • SuperDicq
     @SuperDicq @halva Oh yeah, Github's homepage is horrible, it's literally a gigantic video as a background combined with some really compute-heavy special effects done in JavaScript.
     I don't even think Unity HTML5 games are as bad.
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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Saturday, 17-Feb-2024 05:31:56 JST SuperDicq

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

     @halva@wetdry.world @lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me The text is too small to read on a 22 inch 4k display and I don't want wanna mess with DPI settings.

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Saturday, 17-Feb-2024 05:35:19 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • narcolepsy and alcoholism :flag:
     @hj @halva Reminds me of why I sometimes test my code on a RaspberryPi or Pinephone.
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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Saturday, 17-Feb-2024 05:36:31 JST SuperDicq

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

     @halva@wetdry.world @lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me Also I use this laptop for 3D print work.
     
     The latest version of PrusaSlicer still supports OpenGL 2.0 which is very based of them so it works completely fine. For Blender I have to use version 2.79b. All versions of Blender 2.80+ require OpenGL 3.3 which my laptop does not support.

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     draNgNon (drangnon@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 17-Feb-2024 10:46:22 JST draNgNon

     • Matthew Lyon

     @mattly @halva

     so, I'm a release engineer, not a developer. I have my own opinions along these lines.

     but on this particular topic, I'll note that it's the user interface limitations that are topical in the OP and you want the frontend devs becuase PMs & CEOs are not going to be empathetic enough to wrap their heads around of a 10yr old's needs in the UI.

     and if you interpret the OP to mean the NOTEBOOK is 10yrs old, the PMs & CEOs will say it's great to drive purchase of replacement device.

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     Resuna (resuna@ohai.social)'s status on Saturday, 17-Feb-2024 10:51:59 JST Resuna

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
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     @lanodan @hj @halva You are good people.

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     narcolepsy and alcoholism :flag: (hj@shigusegubu.club)'s status on Saturday, 17-Feb-2024 10:52:28 JST narcolepsy and alcoholism :flag:

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     • Resuna
     @resuna @lanodan @halva given the track record i'm most likely not
     
     but i still try
     
     thank you
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     draNgNon (drangnon@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 17-Feb-2024 10:55:35 JST draNgNon

     • Matthew Lyon

     @mattly @halva

     now we get into the release engineer part of the opinion. everyone seems to think that releasing apps & adding junk to them & unnecessary features & wrapping an entire damned browser in every last one is the bomb diggity but y'know what there is nobody on this planet wants their phone updating every other day with a binary that eats the entirety of the low bandwidth connection they share with their family

     it's the same idea: devs have amazing fast connections & hardware

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     draNgNon (drangnon@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 17-Feb-2024 10:58:10 JST draNgNon

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     • Matthew Lyon

     @mattly @halva

     I do too
     but not everyone else does

     and yeah, who is going to maintain a lab with old, slow stuff?

     but that doesn't mean it's not a problem

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     draNgNon (drangnon@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 17-Feb-2024 10:58:50 JST draNgNon

     • Matthew Lyon

     @mattly @halva

     exactly so!

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     shom 🐧📷🤿🏔️🪚 (shom@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 17-Feb-2024 11:53:30 JST shom 🐧📷🤿🏔️🪚

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
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     @lanodan @hj @halva we need more devs like you!

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