On 2020-09-28, Paul <
nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:
Nobody is kind to hardware any more, which means you
purchase more power than can reasonably be expected,
to get a result. When I look at my own equipment here,
I keep saying to myself "what if that ran at 5GHz instead",
and then I shake my head and say "no, of course it's never enough".
You can't beat them at this game. There's no such thing
as a processor that's "fast enough for the web". It's too easy for
them to add more looping Javascript code.
Maybe it's time to take that piece of advice from the movie
"War Games": "The only way to win is not to play."
How badly do you _really_ need Facebook?
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