Modern web services and application have such a low tolerance for slow or high-latency connections.

2 years ago · 👍 hedy, m0xee, lykso, mrrobinhood5

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@haze it’s tiresome to constantly manually restart fragile downloads. · 2 years ago

@mrrobinhood5 Easy solution: load up any classic artwork on Wikipedia. The images tend to be hundreds of megabytes. · 2 years ago

At some point I would like to see software that emulates the top-to-bottom slow pixelation of images during the dial up times. I quite enjoyed that. · 2 years ago

The thought that comes to my mind every time I'm building something on an old PowerPC machine that hosts my Pleroma instance — in fact it doesn't misbehave and nothing exactly goes wrong, it just gets not responsive enough by today's standards and most operations time out 😖 · 2 years ago

I know right. remember back when IRC was mainstream and everything works over modems. Now almost nothing can. · 2 years ago