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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • I’d argue that having a sandbox that can run binaries with a limited and customizable feature set is actually a good thing for the web. I think there are more technically competent solutions, but the fact that WASM is available on virtually every machine and os, makes it pretty powerful.

    If implemented right WASM might speed up our web apps, keep the browser sandbox that is actually quite nice, and run on pretty much any machine. If they open sourced the code, that’d be even better.

    Between minified js and WASM, I think I’d take WASM (I can’t understand minified js anyway). Between a pure html site and WASM, I think I’d take the pure html site (but I don’t think we will be living in that world anytime soon).



  • First off, I think you’re completely right in that laptop batteries are definitely a non-ideal solution. And, I’m really not an expert in this, so take my words with a grain of salt.

    You could mitigate a bit of the dangers by doing some of the following (I only did the first):

    • Reducing the max charge level to 50% of the capacity.
    • Monitor your batteries health to alert for any discrepancies.
    • Switch out your batteries every couple of years (which is super easy without downtime on the aformentioned old thinkpads).

    If you are an under $100 budget, there seems to be an argument that maybe you are willing to risk a little bit for that extra power reliability.



  • To give a different opinion than all the thin-clients, old laptops can be a good choice too. I am a bit preferrential to really nice old thinkpads.

    If you buy them used you can get insane prices (~$40) and also you get all the laptop conveniences of a keyboard, screen, battery (for power failure). Also I think the power/performance ratio is pretty much the same to the thin clients.