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Count in the Podcast an you're at a smooth 100mb. It doesn't bother me at all. I have a 250mbps connection. It's 2020.

by nt2h9uh238h 6y ago

loufe 6y ago
Count yourself lucky, I'm reading through a 100kpbs geostationary satelitte link. Size matters, still.
- Scoundreller 6y ago
  You’re using lynx right? It works pretty well on a lot of sites. Sometimes turning newspaper and magazine website into quick loading “boring walls of text”. There’s some good console Reddit clients out there too.
lolinder 6y ago
I'm reading on a 4-year-old smartphone that struggles to process sites that heavy, much less download. I should not have to throw away a perfectly functional device because developers can't be bothered to cut back on dependencies for their plain-text site. Developers think that because they're separated from the waste they're causing, they're not causing waste. Bloated sites accelerate the obsolescence of perfectly good devices, leading to people discarding them long before they actually have reached the end of their life. (The reason I get by is because I have uBlock origin blocking large media elements. Most people don't know how to do that.)
mikestew 6y ago
Hello, fellow high-income person in a first-world country on a hard-wired link! You’ll be surprised to know that even in 2020 many, if not most, do not have the bandwidth or computing power that you do. But don’t let that stop you from slurping in another 5MB framework so that you can have drop caps!
FlyMoreRockets 6y ago
> It's 2020. And still, here in rural USA, there is exactly one affordable plan ($70/mo) in this area that doesn't have bandwidth caps and the best sustained speed I can get is 170 Kb/s. That's small b for bit, not big B for bytes, btw. I've been on the list for Starlink beta but they don't seem to be rolling it out for the region yet. Web page bloat bothers me quite a bit. 100 mb? There are smaller Linux distros. Edit: definitely will be going back to using the Lynx text mode browser in the near future, I had no idea it had regained functinality for casual browsing.
- hh3k0 6y ago
  > And still, here in rural USA, there is exactly one affordable plan ($70/mo) in this area that doesn't have bandwidth caps and the best sustained speed I can get is 170 Kb/s. God damn, I can vividly picture the bald 'free-market' eagle screaming "freedom" in the impressive voice of a red-tailed hawk.

Count in the Podcast an you're at a smooth 100mb. It doesn't bother me at all. I have a 250mbps connection. It's 2020.

loufe 6y ago

Count yourself lucky, I'm reading through a 100kpbs geostationary satelitte link. Size matters, still.

Scoundreller 6y ago
You’re using lynx right? It works pretty well on a lot of sites. Sometimes turning newspaper and magazine website into quick loading “boring walls of text”. There’s some good console Reddit clients out there too.

lolinder 6y ago

I'm reading on a 4-year-old smartphone that struggles to process sites that heavy, much less download. I should not have to throw away a perfectly functional device because developers can't be bothered to cut back on dependencies for their plain-text site. Developers think that because they're separated from the waste they're causing, they're not causing waste. Bloated sites accelerate the obsolescence of perfectly good devices, leading to people discarding them long before they actually have reached the end of their life. (The reason I get by is because I have uBlock origin blocking large media elements. Most people don't know how to do that.)

mikestew 6y ago

Hello, fellow high-income person in a first-world country on a hard-wired link! You’ll be surprised to know that even in 2020 many, if not most, do not have the bandwidth or computing power that you do. But don’t let that stop you from slurping in another 5MB framework so that you can have drop caps!

FlyMoreRockets 6y ago

> It's 2020. And still, here in rural USA, there is exactly one affordable plan ($70/mo) in this area that doesn't have bandwidth caps and the best sustained speed I can get is 170 Kb/s. That's small b for bit, not big B for bytes, btw. I've been on the list for Starlink beta but they don't seem to be rolling it out for the region yet. Web page bloat bothers me quite a bit. 100 mb? There are smaller Linux distros. Edit: definitely will be going back to using the Lynx text mode browser in the near future, I had no idea it had regained functinality for casual browsing.

hh3k0 6y ago
> And still, here in rural USA, there is exactly one affordable plan ($70/mo) in this area that doesn't have bandwidth caps and the best sustained speed I can get is 170 Kb/s. God damn, I can vividly picture the bald 'free-market' eagle screaming "freedom" in the impressive voice of a red-tailed hawk.