How paranoid should I be about routers from companies like Cudy that I’m not familiar with? My intuition is “very paranoid, even if I replace the firmware with OpenWRT”.
wxWidgets uses native controls, so just compiling to "WebAssembly" (I'm assuming it's compiled to WebAssembly, plus some JavaScript for DOM manipulation) was probably a significant amount of work. I'm actually curious how it was done!
> I have a machine with 2GB of ram and a single core CPU. It's a low power rig. But cannot run Windows 10, it just about did when I first installed it. Debian runs better, but a browser kills it. It's a one app only.
I put Alpine Linux on my laptop that has 1 GB of RAM and I can actually have a lot of stuff running at once, especially in the terminal (Emacs, SBCL, w3m, Deno).
But yes, opening Firefox consumes all available RAM until I have to power off the machine, sadly. The lightest weight, but functional browser, I've found is Midori, but I probably wouldn't trust it for, say, accessing my bank account.
It's depressing because I was initially blown away at how fast (and productive) old hardware can be... until I tried to use the web.
Is this on real hardware? And does “boot” mean to a login prompt?
I ask because I’ve never had a computer (no matter how fast) boot in less than 10 seconds on Windows or Linux. Just getting to the boot loader takes a good 3 seconds or more. If I have to FreeBSD to get a fast boot, I’ll do it! (On an old laptop, at least).
md2blog: creates a tiny (a few kilobytes per page, with no JavaScript) blog from Markdown files, with two features that I couldn’t find elsewhere:
* Links between Markdown files “just work” (both when viewing the Markdown source on GitHub and in the final HTML version of the site), including anchors
* Posts are automatically tagged based on directory structure (e.g. all files in “posts/linux” are tagged with “linux”)
Bonus: my entire site hot-rebuilds on my 12 year-old netbook in under a second (with a few tweaks that I should probably publish a new build for).
Am I being too paranoid?