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[johnno56]

I had just realised that I did not thank "the powers that be" for the website banner... "Summer"... So nice to see especially being the middle of winter here in Melbourne..  I do miss the warmth.  Thank you for the 'psychological' relief...

J

[TerryRitchie]

I had just realised that I did not thank "the powers that be" for the website banner... "Summer"... So nice to see especially being the middle of winter here in Melbourne..  I do miss the warmth.  Thank you for the 'psychological' relief...

J

Perhaps a bit of HTML code kungfu could be performed in the banner display area to show a seasonal banner appropriate to the user's location? I would probably set my browser's location to AUS during the winter to get the same benefit as johnno56.

[mnrvovrfc]

Welcome back Johnno!

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I have noticed more "bandwidth" is being spent loading the banner and any PNG file than anything else in this site, although I have Ublock Origin enabled for Firefox. I cannot block just one specific PNG file because that extension isn't smart about it. I prefer the simpler days of this forum.

[JRace]

Welcome back Johnno!

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I have noticed more "bandwidth" is being spent loading the banner and any PNG file than anything else in this site, although I have Ublock Origin enabled for Firefox. I cannot block just one specific PNG file because that extension isn't smart about it. I prefer the simpler days of this forum.

There's usually room for improvement in PNG files.  The current banner weighs in at 715K.  The PNG optimizers Pingo & PNGOut are both able to squeeze it losslessly down to 582K.  With lossy compression, Pingo can get it to just over 400K.

I can post the image or send it to the powers-that-be if they want it.

[TerryRitchie]

Welcome back Johnno!

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I have noticed more "bandwidth" is being spent loading the banner and any PNG file than anything else in this site, although I have Ublock Origin enabled for Firefox. I cannot block just one specific PNG file because that extension isn't smart about it. I prefer the simpler days of this forum.

The banner is only 714K in size. Literally milliseconds to load at broadband speed. The days of Gopher, Usenet, and UUCP are long gone.

Here is a list of text browsers if removing graphics is important to you: https://alvarotrigo.com/blog/text-browsing/

[SpriggsySpriggs]

Kilo is running on Netscape with a dial-up modem, sounds like

[mnrvovrfc]

Very little do you two know about Cloudflare and other things? And Firefox v115 gaining this rear end product of bull option called "DNS over HTTPS"? Trying to make things "more secure", they're just slowing things down to take away a lot of interest. I'm not going to lower my security settings and cannot reveal what is really going on at my end.

Maybe I should use another browser. I do have Brave installed but I don't want to rely on anything based on Chromium. It runs slowly on my computer. It doesn't even handle Youtube better than Firefox does but the latter needs a couple of extensions especially UBlock Origin. What I really need is another computer that has Linux natively installed with 4-core CPU and at least 16GB RAM, or something like that.

The thing about UBlock would upset some people expecting it to handle all the blocking of unpleasant images they could see on the screen. Because the previous "spring" banner was blocked no matter what. With Terry's right now it's not good enough to put down a hard-coded path to the PNG, as a blocking filter because it appears anyway on reload. I'm saying this for information, but my settings might be screwed about it and somebody else could have better luck.

Sorry for the off-topic. I only wanted to say hello to Johnno on this thread.

I don't want to use Lynx or any other browser at the terminal or anything alike. Do not insult me like that.

[SpriggsySpriggs]

Most of the complaints you have about your computing experience seem to always be directly related to your computer's specs. Seems like a simple solution is right there. Also, you could install a DNS filter on your router, provided you have a good one. You could do something like Wireguard with Netshield. Blocks basically all ads, even mobile ones.

[TerryRitchie]

Most of the complaints you have about your computing experience seem to always be directly related to your computer's specs. Seems like a simple solution is right there. Also, you could install a DNS filter on your router, provided you have a good one. You could do something like Wireguard with Netshield. Blocks basically all ads, even mobile ones.

There are some really good deals on off-lease corporate refurbs on eBay. I've obtained and used quite a few of these over the years. Here's a quite reasonably priced i7 6700 with 16GB of RAM: https://www.ebay.com/itm/145183990444

As a bonus it's a 6th gen CPU so you can run anything from XP to Win10 or your favorite flavor of Linux (or multi-boot any combination to your heart's content).

Also, check your local municipality. Many times they'll auction off their older computers on sites like GovDeals and you can get many of them dirt cheap. Last year I purchased 22 of Akron Ohio's off-lease Dell systems for $75. I made a killing reselling them on eBay for only $50 each. I preloaded each of them with PopOS. I kept one for myself.

I'm only an hour and a half drive from Akron so I was able to save shipping cost too. $75 for 22 computers. You can get yourself a relatively newer computer and make a bit of side hustle cash with the rest.

[SMcNeill]

Even amazon has a ton of PCs which sell for about the price of a fill up of gas nowadays.

https://www.amazon.com/HP-ProDesk-600-G1...B07BCGW85X <-- $78 for an i5 with 8GB ram...
https://www.amazon.com/Dell-Optiplex-Per...B01LKRPBV4  <-- $109 for an i7  with 8GB ram...