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Try browsing the web on a semi-decent laptop from, say, 2008. It's a frustrating experience. It is obnoxious how much CPU power modern websites require.

• dheera 6y ago
  Join the trend! Deploy websites that mine bitcoin in the background in your viewers' web browsers.
  • Mirioron 6y ago
    It's worse than that. At least someone would profit off of those bitcoins being mined. Instead we use all of that power to make the dozens of dependencies play nice with one another.
    • mekkkkkk 6y ago
      > Dozens Oh my sweet summer child.
• imtringued 6y ago
  Honestly, back when my PSU died I just did that. Beyond the lack of video decoding support for modern codecs it was perfectly acceptable as a backup machine.