josef2025. you go to a website. you see all the elements on the page pop-in, loading one by one. it's like the 90s again. your internet connection might be hundreds of megabits per second. the web designer is using a 4k video file as a looping background, and that somehow loads quickly compared to all the actual useful elements on the page. three seconds, five seconds, ten seconds. each checkbox and table has to initialize its own software stack of UI abstraction libraries and surveillance middleware
Alecia Batson (she/her)@jk This reads like choose-your-own-adventure. The next toot in the thread would be similar to…
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(1) Quit the web browser to prevent nonresponsive processes from potentially interfering with other applications and go to the kitchen to make a sandwich. 🥪
(2) Leave the web browser window open and, while waiting for the interminable web page to load, go to the kitchen to make a sandwich. 🥪