[–] 1 point 1 day ago (2 children)

That's interesting, the honor 6 lite should be 20-30% faster than my old A72. Noticeable but not a lot. Maybe it's the Firefox browser I'm still clinging to, and I should finally give in and change to Google Chrome.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (4 children)

    How modern is your phone? Anubis is killing my old Samsung A72 from 2020 - long waits, draining battery. On the laptop it's less of an annoyance, I've got the laptop connected to mains anyway and it is fast enough.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago*

    https://github.com/mikenrafter/anubis-fast.mirror

    This is a sample of a much faster anubis solver (end user facing).

    There's versions. of this for people running bot networks - it's just a few cheap cloud cpu cycles to invest. Proof of work is an ineffective defense against spam in the age of cheap and scalable cloud compute - and even moreso if the botnet runs on residential proxies.

    My point is, the slowdown is NOT making random scraping uneconomical anymore, it does hurt legitimate users a lot more.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago*

    Which is exactly what I did. I bought a used oven with pyrolysis for 50 Euro and sold my old one for 20 the next day. They were about the same age, but the new one cleans itself now...

    Found out the new one also has a built in. microwave, so I also sold my microwave for 10.

    The new one must have been really expensive when it was new.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    Firewire also has a "small" version of the plug, I used it to copy my old DV tapes to the computer last year. (Finally, probably just in time before my old 2010 desktop PC kicks the bucket). Cameras hat the small version, it looks a bit similar to the old Mini USB.

    On the other hand, it has 8GB of RAM in it, that is something in 2026.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    I don't use my aeropress anymore, I'm more into espresso. Except for the funnel. The Aeropress funnel is one of my most used kitchen utensils, filling up the pepper grinder, putting cooked food into glass jars, coffe beans..... a large diameter funnel is so useful.

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