Clean coded websites. Block third parties.
No outside advertising, no Google/Meta/Xwitter/Amazon/[insert your favourite social spyware maker] scripts everywhere, no animations/videos unless requested.

Light pages of sizes in kilobytes, not megabytes.

I'd rather see a faster bus speed between RAM and CPU. After all, that's still the bottleneck for handling large amounts of data.

I'll read the rest of the article when I return. There's an unmarked van in front of the house and I need to see who's knocking on my door right now.

What? You mean that's not the route I need to follow?

I've seen this with the younger generations working at the small IT firm I co-owned. I had to teach them at weekly evenings the basics of networking and troubleshooting, and this even only on Windows. No one even heard of the tools arp and nslookup.
I didn't begin working in IT with an education, it was all born rom a hobby, but I became surprised at the lack of knowledge of others in the field over the years.

I program in C for my hobby on a personal fork of OpenTTD. Because of that I've been looking up more detailed information on the aspects of programming (I already knew the broad picture of it because I did a bit of hobby basic and read on C and C++ years last century) and learned about the hardware side of how the CPU works and the various programming paradigms and ways to design a piece of software.
Then recemtly I watched several talks on video about these things. The well-known one from Mike Acton about why software is slow if you don't code for the CPU cache from 2014 was very interesting.
What surprised me was a talk from last year, still explaining the concept of data oriented software design and what a cache is to a public of professionals. So many in the audience who didn't know about anything beyond the syntax of the programming language.
I'm not surprised people still program (in the not-intended way of) OOP style. Not only the lack of education, but also the lack of pride in their job and will to learn more about it and improve themselves.

This is also not specific to IT and programming, but to all fields of work. It's how I noticed the low quality of written language even among famous authors. Idiocracy == true;
There are many faults on different sides, but the main one I see is the lack of motivation to improve one's self.

In other words, I have customers who appreciate and pay me for creating midget and underage horse suicide slash porn with hot grits on top, so this is perfecty all right according to this stement, because it's appropriate content for them.
Nice. *sets up Patreon and ko-fi accounts*

My first "affordable" upgrade after my 386 40Mhz was the Pentium 90 Mhz and a 128 MB disk, a just under the top of the line PC for fl 2000,-.

I was never a data hoarder and didn't need expensive large disks, and nowadays I use 2x 500 GB in Btrfs RAID 1 on my laptops with an about 300 GB volume for miscellaneous data (mostly occupied by game and media downloads). It's just about the right size that when it's close to filling up I feel that I have too much junk on it and need to clean it up.

The two data servers I use have barely more than 1 TB (also Btrfs RAID 1) each, on which I store my ripped CDs and DVDs, each about 90% used, so 100 TB would leave 98 TB of wasted space. Even if I had that I can only imagine it being usable by splitting it into 1 TB volumes to keep maintenance and rebuild times in check.

500 GB SSDs are now at pricepoint that I choose to buy them over spinning rust and don't worry about a failed drive. I recently bought a replacement for a Verbatim 500 GB that failed after a year and a half because it's not worth the hassle to claim warranty.

How many cat videos are we talking about?

Asking for a friend.

*cough*preview*cough*

Music is just about the only thing that motivates me nowadays (after burnout) and it varies from classic to metal and jazz to trance, but it's usually rock and house or above when I do chores or exercise.

It's not ultrasound, but sometimes I do like it ultraloud. :-p

Indeed, what is the definition of "full-featured"? Wallpaper? Taskbar? "That's nice" or "looks cool" but useless desktop gadgets? Distracting pop-ups or taskbar animations? Animated advertising in menu, taskbar, and window title bars? What?

My desktop is complete with having only a pop-up program list that I call via key combination and the ability for virtual desktops, nothing else. Okay, one could count the digital clock tucked away in the corner as part of it. It's the same for why I use the simple and clear Olauncher on my phone.

I never found the desktop UI as great as when I installed fluxbox and disabled the taskbar and window decorations. To me "full-featued" means "nothing-featured". I'm even thinking of testing bare-bones openbox after I know how to configure it.

That's funny when 99.9% of internet and 70+% of mobile phones run on open source.
Well, maybe the world will wise up one day and dump all that for closed source.

Still running Devuan Linux fine on my 2008 Dell with Core 2 Duo and 4GB RAM. I only had slowdowns when using Firefox with several standard tabs open because it has become even more of a resource hog.

But, the aging hardware is coming with small issues so now I'm thinking of buying a used Thinkpad T15, and an upgrade from 8 to 16 or maybe even splurge on 32 GB RAM while I'm at it. I could eliminate just about all swapping with zswap then.

I stole those fair and square and no AI is going to change them without my consent.

... Samaritan.