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IgorPartolayesterday at 8:49 PM1 replyview on HN

I love using older hardware in this way but browsing the web on an old laptop is PAINFUL. Even with a light browser and adblock websites are dog slow. Something like Google Maps or Google Docs becomes unusable. I am not against JavaScript on the web by any means but something needs to be done about basic document pages and forms and tables that by all means should fit into 1MB of RAM at most but take half a gig.


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MrVitaliyyesterday at 11:34 PM

I RDP (Remmina) into a beefy VM with all the bells and whistles running FreeRDP service and do heavy web browsing there. Its also more secure if your old laptop doesn't get the latest updates.