Clicks ‘print’. Printer does not produce chuchuchu noise. Hmmm. Clicks ‘print’ again. Printer still silent. Must be some setting. Changes document to landscape and clicks ‘print’. Changes paper size to B5 and clicks ‘print’. Changes DPI and clicks ‘print’. Waddles over to printer, blankly stares for 5 seconds and then shakes it. Waddles back to desk, clicks ‘print’. Opens ticket, waddles back to printer. Someone else comes up and retrieves the jam. Pages upon pages spew forth. Grab one copy and waddle away, leaving the rest. Grabbed the landscape copy. Makes another ticket.
The worst is when someone is sharing their screen in zoom and then complaining about the lag in Chrome, while you can see the 80+ tabs… I even mentioned it to someone once but did she close them? No. Of course not.
Honestly … I think that’s a myth. I have 200+ FF Nightly tabs open, and I did have up to five tab groups with 100+ tabs each, as well as dozens of Addons, including the notoriously laggy Dark Reader, and I don’t notice any slowdown I wouldn’t call acceptable - just the usual suspects (Teams and google apps) are crap, but that’s just incompatibility with standards on their part. And I don’t have any crazy PC or something, just a pretty old 5 2600 and for the most part 16 GB Ram (which did get pretty tight with Minecraft, Idea and FF running), now 32 GB Detotaded Wam.
Both Firefox (see about:unloads) & Chromium have a feature to unload old tabs when running low on memory. On session restore all tabs start unloaded
Yep. I even have an extension to manually unload tabs/tab groups. That’s why I wonder why even IT people say more tabs = worse performance.
I didn’t realize Dark Reader was laggy or known to be laggy but it makes sense. It doesn’t matter in any case, you’d have to pry it from my cold dead eyes
Well it does alter the whole website, in consideration of other parts of the website, which means it fully parses it. Therefore a website is basically handled two or three times before it’s finally displayed.
only effect I have is on startup and it using a lot of memory
Can’t you just… Close them? Why you you need 200 tabs? You do know about bookmarks right?
Bookmarks, do you have any idea how much more time it takes to delete a bookmark
It’s a right click and delete. I keep a folder called tmp for exactly this reason. I really don’t understand why people do it but man it is infuriating watching someone do it. Maybe it’s a bit of ocd tendencies but I absolutely hate it.
I just shove the tabs in a seperate window and let them eat a couple gigs of RAM, webpages need a little snack sometimes.
Because they’re all active projects, and most of them are open “just in case I need that exact piece of information again”.
furiously shaking the mouse and tapping the spacebar repeatedly
I think we’ve all been guilty of this one. At least I have.
They also tolerate a significant amount of ads. Ads on web pages, ads on gas station pumps and ads on every piece of software.
but not in dreams!
Yeah but this is unironically unacceptable.
There was a time when I could not type faster than my computer could respond. The steady “upgrades” of software have made computers consistently worse, outpacing any hardware improvements by far.
Holy sheeps, I’m not the only one?! I know I need to get my butt off Windows, but oh my lordie, the slowness of typing feedback gets so bad on Word or Mail that it literally sometimes refuses to graphically acknowledge an entire short word, leaving the screen void of the word I know I just typed, until I backspace one measly letter and the word (minus the letter) finally shows up.
It is absolutely, unironically infuriating.
Parents these days are the most technologically advanced people this world has ever or will ever see they grew up between the time when nobody had internet and we moved to smartphones.
Or they wait the two minutes to open a browser and claim they “have it how they like it” when you inform them it shouldn’t take that long…
Aka “I have a series of 30 sticky notes telling me to click things in this order with the same brittle preciseness or punch card systems”. They have no idea what those buttons mean, they only know they click these three buttons in a row and that means gmail
