What bothers me most about modern tech is how "it does the thing, or fuck you" it is these days. Back in the 90s or 2000s, my computer did most things. Stuff it wasn't up to snuff for, I could do, just slowly. I got to decide if that was slow enough, often enough, to buy more computer power, and errors helped me fix stuff... and now, it's a battle to open a web page on a phone that isn't old, and errors just say "Fuck you, we're not telling you shit". I hate! I hate it so much!
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in reply to Miakoda • • •So, I'm not entirely sure who to be frustrated with, as there are many hands in this.
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in reply to arti • • •Kitting out a browser is like kitting out before stepping in to a war zone.
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in reply to Miakoda • • •That’s pretty much the analogy the Gemini author used 🙂
(NB: I’m not a Gemini fanatic - I’d call myself ambivalent. Also, I edited the excerpt for easier reading.)
gemini://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/~solderpunk/gemlog/why-not-just-use-a-subset-of-http-and-html.gmi
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in reply to Miakoda • • •a lot of today's developers are working on super fast machines and testing in ideal conditions. The security aware are under skilled and too afraid of someone compromising their software that they hide all details possible. It's frustrating trying to push for reasonable error messages or instructions for the user.
There are legitimate threats from giving the user some info (such as during login or about their payment info), but often it's just us operating from fear.
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Unknown parent • • •I got OOM on my Linux phone with 6GB because I clicked a link I got via SMS (don't worry, it was one I was expecting)
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Unknown parent • • •It's not laggy. It very snappily runs out of memory and closes things... including parts of the OS, which then cascades and the phone needs to be rebooted to do anything.
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Unknown parent • • •@kkarhan It is very nice... except for this memory issue. This used to be much worse. This is just Mastodon, and Telegram chilling. I already killed my pill reminder.
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in reply to Miakoda • • •I was reminded of when I had a similar issue that made me wish I could just choose priorities for that.
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in reply to Miakoda • • •@ustralien @kkarhan If it makes you feel better, I've seen that behaviour on #postmarketOS too, but only when the swap was used up - usually opening a browser with many tabs while other apps are running causes this.
I don't have much free disk space, but perhaps you can try increasing your swap? #PureOS on #Librem5 has 6GB swap size iirc and this has never happened while I was on it.