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I use (as a daily driver) an even older machine, a Dell D620. Well, I have two of them, D620 and D630, one runs Debian and one runs Gentoo. Friends are not amus

I use (as a daily driver) an even older machine, a Dell D620. Well, I have two of them, D620 and D630, one runs Debian and one runs Gentoo. Friends are not amused by the fact that I can't play newer videogames. That's why you'll see me commenting here that linked websites are bloat and take 10 seconds to load (: (OP'd website and HN are great though)

winrid 4y ago
I grew up programming on pentium IIIs when people were using core2duos, but nowadays I like my fast dev machine. I'm curious, how quickly does our product load for you? [1] The SSR version should be much faster [2]. [1] https://fastcomments.com/demo https://fastcomments.com/demo [2] https://fastcomments.com/ssr/comments?tenantId=nYrnfYEv&urlId=ssr-test&url=https%3A%2F%2Ffastcomments.com%2Fssr%2Fcomments%2F%3FtenantId%3DnYrnfYEv%26urlId%3Dssr-test https://fastcomments.com/ssr/comments?tenantId=nYrnfYEv&urlI...
- jesprenj 4y ago
  Both websites are working without hiccups. But I noticed that the website linked in [2] (free of javascript) sends a JSON response directly to the browser as a result of invalid email submitted, which may be puzzling to less tech-savvy users. Maybe this is even done for every error? I inputted this-is-an-example-email@example as the E-Mail address, and as the response to the form submission, received a plain JSON document, which may not be desired. http://1507103400/dir/fastcomments.txt http://1507103400/dir/fastcomments.txt <= request example But regarding performance I'd say it's perfectly usable. `neofetch --stdout` output of the machine on which I tested is also in the linked file. I used the palemoon browser. I didn't test out Links browser, there's a chance it might work.
  - winrid 4y ago
    That first issue for #2 should be fixed and was a validation bug (was fixed day I posted this, is it still broken for you?) We execute the frontend code server side and there are some edge cases here and there :)
memcg 4y ago
If you want a D610, docking station, ~10 batteries, cd and floppy drives, I'm in the Washington DC area.
- jesprenj 4y ago
  Thanks for the offer, but I live in Slovenia (: You can try listing it on some flea-market websites, perhaps you may get some money, though it's a question if it's really worth it, but maybe I'd be of good use to someone.
springogeek 4y ago
I acquired a D620 at the start of the year to use as a semi-regular hobby machine. I love how user-servicable it is. Pretty easy to take apart and fairly modular design. I swapped out the processor for its maximum spec (a Core 2 Duo T7600) and 4GB of RAM. I use Badwolf as the primary browser, which comes with built in toggles for disabling images and JS loading, and that makes web browsing tolerable most of the time. I've even managed to stream from it to Twitch using ffmpeg without much of a problem!
- jesprenj 4y ago
  Nice! For browsing I usually use palemoon, a maintained fork of an old firefox version, which supports uBlock Origin. Gentoo packages the links web browser, which is very minimal (own rendering system) and not useful for modern browsing, but useful for reading articles (also HN works). There used to be a package repository for Debian for ungoogled-chromium, but that recently stopped being updated, so I uninstalled it. I never managed to build it on Gentoo, it took multiple days and I never had the patience. Badwolf looks interesting but unfortunately doesn't have any ad-blocking programs.

winrid 4y ago

I grew up programming on pentium IIIs when people were using core2duos, but nowadays I like my fast dev machine. I'm curious, how quickly does our product load for you? [1] The SSR version should be much faster [2]. [1] https://fastcomments.com/demo https://fastcomments.com/demo [2] https://fastcomments.com/ssr/comments?tenantId=nYrnfYEv&urlId=ssr-test&url=https%3A%2F%2Ffastcomments.com%2Fssr%2Fcomments%2F%3FtenantId%3DnYrnfYEv%26urlId%3Dssr-test https://fastcomments.com/ssr/comments?tenantId=nYrnfYEv&urlI...

jesprenj 4y ago
Both websites are working without hiccups. But I noticed that the website linked in [2] (free of javascript) sends a JSON response directly to the browser as a result of invalid email submitted, which may be puzzling to less tech-savvy users. Maybe this is even done for every error? I inputted this-is-an-example-email@example as the E-Mail address, and as the response to the form submission, received a plain JSON document, which may not be desired. http://1507103400/dir/fastcomments.txt http://1507103400/dir/fastcomments.txt <= request example But regarding performance I'd say it's perfectly usable. `neofetch --stdout` output of the machine on which I tested is also in the linked file. I used the palemoon browser. I didn't test out Links browser, there's a chance it might work.
- winrid 4y ago
  That first issue for #2 should be fixed and was a validation bug (was fixed day I posted this, is it still broken for you?) We execute the frontend code server side and there are some edge cases here and there :)

memcg 4y ago

If you want a D610, docking station, ~10 batteries, cd and floppy drives, I'm in the Washington DC area.

jesprenj 4y ago
Thanks for the offer, but I live in Slovenia (: You can try listing it on some flea-market websites, perhaps you may get some money, though it's a question if it's really worth it, but maybe I'd be of good use to someone.

springogeek 4y ago

I acquired a D620 at the start of the year to use as a semi-regular hobby machine. I love how user-servicable it is. Pretty easy to take apart and fairly modular design. I swapped out the processor for its maximum spec (a Core 2 Duo T7600) and 4GB of RAM. I use Badwolf as the primary browser, which comes with built in toggles for disabling images and JS loading, and that makes web browsing tolerable most of the time. I've even managed to stream from it to Twitch using ffmpeg without much of a problem!

jesprenj 4y ago
Nice! For browsing I usually use palemoon, a maintained fork of an old firefox version, which supports uBlock Origin. Gentoo packages the links web browser, which is very minimal (own rendering system) and not useful for modern browsing, but useful for reading articles (also HN works). There used to be a package repository for Debian for ungoogled-chromium, but that recently stopped being updated, so I uninstalled it. I never managed to build it on Gentoo, it took multiple days and I never had the patience. Badwolf looks interesting but unfortunately doesn't have any ad-blocking programs.