Engineering for Slow Internet

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Https://rss.feedspot.com/world_news_rss_feeds/ Finally, there's the possibility of running a remote desktop session: Something like RDP over SSH, VNC over SSH, NoMachine's NX, TeamViewer, etc. Can give clearer detail than brow.sh and can sometimes be faster than browsing locally. I tested it by intentionally limiting my desktop's speed to 5KB/sec and while it wasn't fun, it got the job done. Took about ten seconds to paint a page on a 1GB VM, but that can often be faster than rendering a JavaScript-heavy page locally. Seems to be a good compromise for certain situations when the rest of the options fail you. Typing is too laggy (5 seconds before characters appeared) but one way around that is to type into a file via SSH then cat the file on the server, paste that into the web form. Or write your notes to a file on your local system and copy+paste that directly in. I've found that even a server with 1GB RAM is sufficient for even this task, as long as you're only looking at one web page at a time. No multiple tabs. I ran XFCE4 on Ubuntu 22.04 and Google's official Chrome package. Resized the connection to 1024x768, which I consider to be the minimum for useful browsing. Changed the quality settings to lowest, color depth to lowest, etc. Disabled audio and printing. To read large pages offline, print to PDF on the server inside RDP/VNC and download that with rsync. The combination of all of these should help us get through a season of needing to save money, and it may very well save the day in Antarctica, as well.

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