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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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caneToad

Adblocking is both a matter of resistance and personal internet hygiene. There is no right to surveillance capitalism, you can ban who you dislike. Period. Doctor recommended (OK, a Ph.D., but you can take my word for it).

A thorough multilayer approach is recommended to poop in the AdTech teapot:
1) Network-wide DNS filtering w/ Pi-hole, explicitly banning all Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and other notorious enshittification actors.
2) Linux OS instead of Microsoft/Apple. Linux does not track, the others do.
3) Firefox w/privacy extensions uBlock Origin and EFF Privacy Badger, Ungoogled Chromium.
4) On Smartphones: Use AdGuard Pro (iOS) or Rethink DNS (Android), but be aware that tracking is a built-in feature of mobile OS and is more difficult to suppress.

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an actual bus

For a while before I had to pay bills using online services I had a "pure" CLI setup, running barebones distros without X installed. Was pretty cool, had a command line application for just about anything. Even wrote a novel using a text-based word processor called wordgrinder.

It was surprising how much you could still see of the web using elinks, I could even use facebook 😂 Unsurprisingly banking was out of the picture though, I had to borrow my mom's windows laptop to do that.

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Sharp Leaves

@alesroubicek 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:

linuxreviews.org/HOWTO_Make_Mo…

Apologies for dropping in with unasked-for advice.

HOWTO Make Mozilla Firefox Blazing Fast On Linux

LinuxReviews
@Aleš Roubíček
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Abram Kedge🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇦

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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Frederic Thevenet

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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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Andreas K

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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