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[Rant] Your website should be able to run well on your slowest computer.*

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*Excluding insane stuff like 3D web games, or running your website on a commadore VIC-20.

Grab an old mid 2000s computer/laptop, upgrade the ram in it, upgrade the cpu if its a Celeron D, and install a copy of modern linux and firefox on it.

You want to aim for something like a Dimension 2400. Athlon XP/64 and netburst era. Perhaps PowerPC G4/G5 era too.

NEVER THE CELERON D THOUGH, YOU WILL WANT TO JUMP OF A CLIFF.

If your website runs like crap on it, your website is coded like crap. Go back and optimize it more. No excuses.

Well, unless your programming something like an image editor or game. Though, it wouldn’t hurt to optimize your web game/photoshop alternative to run on an old 2005 machine.

I personally do my coding on a Dell Inspiron 700m to ensure my code will run on even a potato chip.

Lol, im probably sounding like Richard Stallman right now. Man, fuck that guy.

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Tbh, even for companies it wouldn’t matter much to them

For users that don’t have a modern computer, the potential revenue coming from them will be extremely low on average

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