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by yorwba 3210 days ago
Network connections can be artificially limited (even to localhost): https://stackoverflow.com/questions/130354/how-do-i-simulate...

To simulate a lower-spec machine, you can just run some resource-hungry processes in the background.

The problem is of course that almost nobody bothers to run these tests unless they already care about performance on low-end devices.