I use it on mobile. It’s mostly OK tbh, and the addition of a working ad blocker means it’s far better than Chrome for me.

In fairness that is an invalid URL in my book, but it should at least be consistent across desktop and mobile, or at least tucked behind an option.

Deshittify, technically.

We have created the overconfident intern in digital form.

“You don’t know what’s in that shite” - Debbie, 52. Lifelong smoker.

I’m on VPN so my highest is like 6.

I’m got a 100Mbps upload but nobody wants it through a VPN. 😢

Mate, this isn’t a new church roof.

Your fundraisers are going to want that money back and then some. Forever.

So do we. We just leave them in another country so we don’t have to think about them.

Going to be quite a bit heavier than that if you run it on a different CPU architecture though. And even if you’re not running on mobile, Apple still opened that can of worms a few years back. Linux too, I guess.

Honestly, I don’t mind HTML for a UI. It resizes nicely to fit a large number of devices. It looks pretty much the same no matter what you’re running it on. But it should just be that, a UI layer. Otherwise the solution you were looking for was a website, and not a dozen 500MB chunks of Chrome installed around my PC.

My strict diet of bread, cheese and highly processed red meat means I don’t need to worry about washing vegetables.

Checkmate, healthy eaters!

Twice, I’d imagine.

It’s weird that all the tier 1 ISPs have no such worries though.

Oh, VR is pretty neat. It sure as shit don’t need no $3000 graphics card though.

I’m not 100% convinced that an emulation layer isn’t as heavy as a browser.

We had things like Java and QT, and none of it really took off. Apple is probably to blame here as well, for wanting everything to be native to iOS and ignoring the reality that developers don’t want to make five different versions of their software.

I just got an N150 Mini PC for about that. Should be decent as a Jellyfin server.

I used to have that CPU, but found it absolutely dying on it’s arse for VR Chat (which is notoriously badly optimised). I got a i5-8400 instead, which is about twice as fast for single threaded work (which is still the main bottleneck for most games). Your overclock would take it a decent amount of the way there, but most people aren’t going to do that, and it was getting a bit iffy even when I replaced it. Runs hot as well, I expect.

Since then they’ve got about twice as fast again. You don’t have to spend a lot on them to get that either. A Ryzen 9600X will have me set for the next 15 years (assuming they don’t ditch x86 CPUs altogether). AMD being competitive again has down wonders for performance boosts. Motherboards seem a lot more expensive these days though.

Yeah, those are basically Mini PC prices. The CPU alone used to cost more than that.

The specs look perfectly adequate (I’m still running very similar for daily use), and 1TB SSD and 32GB RAM should keep you going no matter how many tabs you open or how bloated your PC gets.

Personally I’d get a new Ryzen Mini PC for that kind of money just for the form factor, but they’re hardly a scam. The main issue is that the crowd this is aimed at have very little use for a PC these days.

Yeah, I can see how it ended up like that, and it would at least be nice if Windows accepted that and had one copy of the browser rather than every app installing it’s own just in case of breaking changes.

And it would also be really nice if it only clogged the system for when it needs to show a UI, but I’ve got a ton of background processes that are also running a browser just in case today is the day that I finally need to see them. Just looking down task manager now at some suspect large processes, I can see a Razer “mouse driver”, Epic, Discord, Steam, Nvidia, Oculus, NordVPN, Signal…

None of these things need to be running a browser while I’m not looking at them.

But hey, lets throw another 32GB of RAM in there, and another dozen cores, and maybe we can achieve the dream of running each of them all in their own fucking operating system as well…

He says on the “I hate Reddit” forum.

*Palantir standing the corner taking notes.*

Actual driver code: about 500KB. If that.