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    I just want the Manjaro Arm to not fizzle the gui's and run Firefox at speeds faster than 1980s era internet...

    Or any desktop distro, even gnome or ubuntu

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    [–] [email protected] 90 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    I blame the modern web for this

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    It isn't a a web problem. The experience is the same for any video playback on a RPI

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    Yeah, it's amazing how upvoted the previous comment is. Just a bunch of idiots jumping on the web-hate bandwagon when even basic media players like Kodi have a tough time playing back video on the Pi.

    It just isn't a very optimized device for video playback. The Pi 5 is actually a step backwards as well, providing only H265 hardware video decode which the web doesn't even use.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

    It's weird to me hearing people say the Pi isn't great for video playback when the SoC isn't that dissimilar from what's in a Roku box.

    [–] [email protected] 72 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

    Relevant blog post.

    Remember when if your aunt wanted you to build her a computer that she'd only use for "web browsing", that meant you could opt for the cheap components?

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I fully agree with the author but I was shocked when I saw iPhone 6S. Things were bad even back then?

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    where does it mention iphones on that page? am I just blind?

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

    at the end of the "fat assets" section

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

    back then

    Fuck am I old??

    [–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Things haven't been the same since web 1.0 came out

    [–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Last year, I got myself a new Camera, a Lumix S5, and after uploading some photos to DeviantArt (I have had the same account for almost 20 years) and browsing my gallery I realized that I had had enough.

    It was so slow and annoying to work with.

    So I sat down and started work on a simple webpage that I could host on a normal webhost.

    And I built a nice index page in HTML/CSS, and then used photo albums generated by digiKam for the photo albums.

    It loads fast, it is easy to navigate, fairly easy to update, and the photo albums can be navigated with arrow keys or swipe gestures.

    I am considering writing a blog UI for me to be able to make a simple blogging page, I'll still write it in static HTML/CSS, so I'll have to write every blog entry in HTML as it stands now, but I'll keep looking for easier alternatives

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

    If you like doing the web dev work, it's not hard to implement a simple bbcode using regex matching and replacement. At least, it was pretty easy using php and sql.

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    Word. I often complain at work how programming and programmers seem to take "computing resources are cheap" as "USE FUCKING EVERYTHING". There is fuckloads of bloat and web frameworks that are somehow marketed as "lightweight" despite making everything, even the development speed, worse in nearly every aspect.

    Video playback is a wholly different thing, tho, because of all the encoding/decoding that keeps file size down.

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

    Ah yes, the programmer curve.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

    Grav is pretty cool if you like mark down. I haven't used it for a gallery but inserting photos is easy enough

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    But they should. Or at least comparable.

    Think about the difference between Reddit and Lemmy. They both offer similar functionality, but Reddit will set your phone on fire if it gets the chance.

    The same is true for YouTube. Browsing YouTube is scrolling through an image gallery, only video playback should be a problem. Yet, it will consume more resources than a well equipped laptop had when YouTube was launched. That's insane.

    We're moving in a direction where computers get faster and faster, but for the last 10 years or so, the actual utility of the system as a whole stagnated. Besides games, what can a modern computer do, that a 2014 model couldn't?

    [–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    You think it's bad now? Wait until ChatGPT is the one coding things.

    Modern hardware allows for bloat, and so bloat is made. Add in a huge helping of tracking everything you do, and you get a shit pi.

    Now repeat but also mess up the code some more.

    Behold: the true Web 3.0

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

    I am interested to see how people will use chatgpt along with reinforcement learning and brute force to optimise code

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

    You think it’s bad now? Wait until ChatGPT is the one coding things.

    I mean AI code is getting banned from tons of open source projects. I don't expect a huge AI programming boom, except for proprietary software that I won't use on my personal systems anyways