Dear Europe, please wake up

Re:Dear Europe, please wake up by dangrossman on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @01:33PM (#40213611)

I can't scroll this webpage to read it unless I plug my laptop in. Scroll events have a lag time measured in whole seconds, then the page scrolls down by either a fraction of a line or by multiple paragraphs, so I can't keep track of where I was reading. Plugging in my laptop, which changes the power mode, makes the webpage barely usable, but my cooling fans are spun up to full speed now. This is using Chrome on a Dell XPS 13 with an 11th gen Core i7 and 16GB RAM.

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Re:Dear Europe, please wake up by steve_rambo on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @01:41PM (#40213702)

For what's it worth, the page is unreadable without JavaScript disabled on an overclocked desktop 7900X. I think it's the slowest one by far among all the crap I've seen in two decades of browsing the web.

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Re:Dear Europe, please wake up by jandrese on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @01:49PM (#40213823)

It worked without issue on Firefox 125.0.2 on Windows 10, but I have uMatrix installed and didn't allow anything beyond the defaults on the page.

Edit: Went back and tried allowing the firebaseio script, which added some blur to the top and the bottom of the page as well as some light blue elements to the background, but didn't otherwise noticeably affect performance. But it is possible those elements were added via some normally 3D accelerated operation that may not work on all browsers and be painfully slow when not accelerated.

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Re:Dear Europe, please wake up by Tagbert on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @01:43PM (#40213736)

I have visited the site in a Mac browser and on iOS Safari and scrolling is perfectly normal. Not sure what issue you are running into.

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Re:Dear Europe, please wake up by vundercind on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @02:05PM (#40214084)

iPhone safari here, the background had a weird distracting flicker, like my backlight was going bad.

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Re:Dear Europe, please wake up by grotorea on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @01:46PM (#40213780)

Works perfectly on my 4GB machine on firefox, and ublock is barely blocking anything (just googletagmanager). Weird.

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Re:Dear Europe, please wake up by kube-system on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @01:40PM (#40213681)

I get high GPU consumption with that tab open

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Re:Dear Europe, please wake up by detritus on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @01:46PM (#40213781)

Not having any problems at all on my shitbox GPU-free Windows PC here, running Firefox.

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Re:Dear Europe, please wake up by febeling on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @01:52PM (#40213874)

MBP 2014. Firefox is smooth as can be, opening on Chrome blocks the whole machine.

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Re:Dear Europe, please wake up by greenavocado on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @01:37PM (#40213650)

It works with Javascript disabled

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Re:Dear Europe, please wake up by Squarex on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @01:37PM (#40213645)

same here on M2 macbook air

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Re:Dear Europe, please wake up by ranger_danger on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @01:36PM (#40213635)

works on my machine

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