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by dranka 1898 days ago
I miss the passive nature of the web. A page got loaded and then it was idle. Now I can stare at a page of text with my cpu spinning at 100% in the background, it adds nothing extra to my experience except for a quiet hum from the CPU fans
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Not to mention animations. Adding a second's hand to https://mro.name/o/testbild.svg makes 25% CPU load on modern hardware. Ridiculous. But even more so, that it's often enough done anyway.