*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.
Counterpoint: ain’t nobody got time for that shit.
That kind of love and care will only go in my passion projects, my job gets whatever bloated piece of shit framework makes me do my job faster.
Yeah, for your job it doesn’t matter because you won’t be paid extra for this.
It should, but without loading it down with 100+ ad scripts and trackers, how would I know the marketing value of the 5% of users who will tolerate my website running like shit because of JS bloat?
No. I need a scrolling banner and an animated sign that says “breaking news:” without any news. I need those full-size .PNG images taken at the highest resolution on my phone or DSLR, and if you click a post you’re getting 7 of them. I need the background image that’s like a 1000x1000 .PNG but with only a 50~ pixel tall gap between categories for you to see it. I need the subreddit footer image that takes up half the screen making it inaccessible unless you know the secret cheat code of resizing your browser window properly.
You expect me to learn CSS?
lmao i thought this post was going to be about hexbear being literally unusable without javascript (thats a bad thing btw)
Non tech-literate people are also constantly buying new garbage machines too. Friend of mine went to buy a new laptop for his wife the other day and I spent half an hour talking him out of buying a windows machine with 8gb ram.
Hey! I have 16GB on my machine and it is plenty enough so long as I give it 20 minutes or so to start up properly, don’t try to open too many windows at once and stay away from modern games and doing anything like sound editing or using modern graphics software!
Our habit of buying new electronic devices every 2 years despite our old ones being perfectly fine to use is destroying our planet.
