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Productivity doesn't scale with speed, or else everyone would be using Threadrippers. OP might be perfectly fine with a pi.
by turtlebits 4y ago
Productivity doesn't scale with speed, or else everyone would be using Threadrippers. OP might be perfectly fine with a pi.
- StillBored 4y agoThere is a floor where browsing the web is _painful_, and the pi is definitely in that category on any site that isn't hackernews levels of javascript. I challenge you to give amazon or ebay a try on it, or just spend a bit of time on youtube. Things you take for granted, like being able to run videos full screen won't happen on the pi if your monitor is HD or better.
- easygenes 4y agoYeah, this is basically what I mean. Personally, I think the performance of SBC boards with Celeron N5105 is my baseline for "acceptable" performance for a desktop. Anything slower I will deliberately avoid due to the jank and inconvenience factor.
- bluGill 4y agoThe first machine I browsed the web on was running at a wopping 40MHz. We have a bloat problem not a spec problem even on cheap machines. Now get off my lawn you kids.
- bee_rider 4y agoWe have an absolutely terrible bloat problem on the web. Unfortunately, using a slow PC on our end won't solve it. If we could force web devs to work on raspberry pis or old atom netbooks, the world would be a better place.
- rambambram 4y agoThat's what I did, basically. I forced myself to work on low end machines because there might be a chance my website system also runs in a browser on a low end machine. My website with this blogpost is holding up perfectly fine by the way, even with all HN visitors, peaking at almost 2 visits each second for some hours. Also credits to my webhost!
- bee_rider 4y agoIt is funny to think of the hoops I jumped through to get things working nicely on an old Atom processor. My Makefiles were so good, everything was tracked compilation only happened when necessary...