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On: Ask HN: What would you preserve if the internet we...

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In all honesty: my sanity

On: How much can you get out of a $4 VPS?

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conclusion: inconclusive

On: Uranus should be NASA’s top planetary target – rep...

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The title doubles as a nice insult.

On: Ask HN: Why is there no good open-source LMS?

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Oh, not TLA+?

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No, that would be an ETLA - "extended three letter acronym".

On: Ask HN: What do you think about the no-code moveme...

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no-comment

On: How to build a low-tech website? (2018)

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The images are still huge for the quality. There's a lot of gains to be had with proper compression here.

On: Audacity fork without any sentry telemetry or cras...

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Tin foil edition

On: Design structured diagrams, built to increase your...

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If a diagram is too complex, shouldn't you just add more abstractions? That would simplify the refactoring too.

On: New Zealand lifts all Covid restrictions, declarin...

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Article from June.

On: How and why I stopped buying new laptops

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For a low-tech solar powered website, it does require a lot of loading (>500Kb for the homepage, >350kb just for this article).

You should optimize your images. This would probably drastically reduce your electricity use per unique visitor.

Nice article by the way. I love the frugality.

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It's a solar powered Raspberry Pi!

_{Behind CloudFlare which is not solar powered and does most of the work sending stuff to clients.}

[dredmorbius → edsonmedina]

The pages are considerably optimised, including dithering images: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about.html

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You call 283kb optimized?

In the late 90s (when websites looked exactly like that) 100kb would be considered excessive.

[dredmorbius → edsonmedina]

Relative to current standards, yes.

What is a typical page weight today, inclusive of all external references (images, JS, CSS)?