Respect the burrito.
- 216 Posts
- 1.48K Comments
deleted by creator
vext01to Casual UK@feddit.uk•What is going on with the price of chicken thighs!?English11·10 days agoIt’s Sainsbury’s in the UK
Hahahahhah.
I made it up, but if be happy for it to be adopted.
Ah yes, and the old “flash some faded out rectangles” to prepare you for that sweet, sweet, information that’s coming any… moment… now…
No, now…
Now…
The key idea remains though. Text on a page, fast. No objections with (gasp) colours, if the author would like to add some.
Yep.
On a rare occasion I hit a website that loads just like “boom” and it surprises me.
Why is that? Because now we are used to having to wait for javascript to load, decompress, parse, JIT, transmogrify, rejimble and perform two rinse cycles just to see the opening times for the supermarket.
(And that’s after you dismissed the cookie, discount/offer and mailing list nags with obfuscated X buttons and all other manner of dark patterns to keep you engaged)
Sometimes I wish we’d just stopped at gopher :)
See also: https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
EDIT: Yes, this is facetious.
vext01to Technology@lemmy.world•Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify usersEnglish1·10 days agoIt reminds me of the eyeballs in linqspace in Beneath a Steel Sky.
vext01to Technology@lemmy.world•Millions of Americans Who Have Waited Decades for Fast Internet Connections Will Keep Waiting After the Trump Administration Threw a $42 Billion High-Speed Internet Program Into Disarray.English1·11 days agoLol.
Meanwhile here I am in the UK with my ADSL at 67MB down.
Lots of the UK is this way. Some of it is fast though.
vext01to Open Source@lemmy.ml•Looking for Privacy-Oriented Open-Source Android Browsers - Lemmy.World1·11 days agoI like the duckduckgo browser for android.
Also has a vpn built in to block app trackers.
vext01to Technology@lemmy.world•AI CEO – Replace Your Boss Before They Replace YouEnglish6·11 days agoThat whole website is very good.
vext01to Technology@lemmy.world•Millions of Americans Who Have Waited Decades for Fast Internet Connections Will Keep Waiting After the Trump Administration Threw a $42 Billion High-Speed Internet Program Into Disarray.English7·11 days agoWhat’s an average Internet connection like in the USA? How many megs down?
vext01to Technology@lemmy.world•Do you remember Windows 95? How about Windows 96?English21·11 days agoSo much nostalgia for the Windows 95/98 era.
Playing Descent with musicmatch jukebox running in the background. (Probably a 98 memory).
Bouncing sheep…
Oddly specific theme on this sub today…
Interesting… more research needed
vext01to Selfhosted@lemmy.world•how are my fellow peeps hosting your music collection these days?English8·12 days agoSyncthing-fork on f-droid.
vext01to Selfhosted@lemmy.world•how are my fellow peeps hosting your music collection these days?English71·12 days agoI just use syncthing to copy music to my phone sd card.
I like those Lu butter biscuits. Pretty bad for you though I’m sure.
Maybe navidrome too?
https://www.navidrome.org/