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[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago (2 children)

At least for me, both my laptop (daily driver) and desktop would be considered old by this comic (2014 and 2017 respectively). Neither of them are struggling with the tasks I mostly use them for (writing notes, programming, light gaming on my desktop).

The only things they are struggling at, are modern video codecs and the ABSOLUTELY BLOATED shitshow that is today's Internet experience.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If you use an ad blocker it'll speed up your web performance dramatically

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

I am already using uBO on Firefox on both machines, as well as a Pi-Hole on my network for devices unable to obtain adblockers.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

to be fair, everything struggles with software decoding on modern HEVC codecs (yes i realize HEVC is technically H265 but that's a stupid fucking name, and i refuse to use HEVC and AVC as anything other than generics for the class of codec they're in because that's the only thing that makes sense)

And the internet, so like. None of this is "new"