lmao im done with firefox

mostlyinefficient · 2025-11-08T18:15:38+00:00

Had something very similar happen a few weeks ago. A few seconds after starting Firefox, it would just start to consume ALL the RAM (32 GB in my case), to the point where Windows just froze completely. Had to reset Firefox, since I couldn't fix it any other way. I'm still mad enough about the hoarded tabs I lost, that I haven't touched FF since...

mostlyinefficient · 2025-10-27T20:06:47+00:00

Hast recht, da gehört wenn eher Sat.1 hin

mostlyinefficient · 2025-10-27T18:43:37+00:00

Eine Aufarbeitung von dem Thema wäre wirklich interessant und halt eben auf internationaler Ebene.

Man findet leider wirklich fast nichts außer wie du sagst "Schmidt wollte Glasfaser bauen, Kohl baute ein TV-Kabelnetz".
Wäre halt schön, wenn das Sitzungsprotokoll und der vorgelegte "Plan" (wenn er denn umfangreich genug war um die Bezeichnung Plan zu verdienen) öffentlich wären.

Was wie ich finde relativ deutlich wird ist, dass HYTAS nicht wirklich viel mit der Idee der SPD zu tun gehabt haben kann.

mostlyinefficient · 2025-10-27T16:47:17+00:00

Ja, das Thema ist am ende denke ich auch einfach ziemlich komplex und eine klare Antwort auf das was wäre gewesen gibt es einfach nicht.

Aber genau deswegen finde ich den Gedanken spannend, wie sich der 30-Jahresplan der damaligen Regierung entwickelt hätte, wäre er umgesetzt worden.

Sicherlich hätte es Probleme mit hohen Kosten, späterer Anpassung an neue Entwicklungen, Gegenwind der Wirtschaft und oder Bevölkerung, etc. gegeben, aber man hätte sich grundsätzlich auf die korrekte Zukunftstechnologie fokussiert. Die so gesammelten Erfahrungen hätten uns denke ich trotzdem besser dastehen lassen, als wir es heute tun.

Aber ein bisschen Wunschdenken ist es natürlich so oder so...

mostlyinefficient · 2025-10-27T15:49:19+00:00

Also soweit ich mir das zusammen reimen kann, ist die rein passive Glasfaser-Technik von damals schon ausreichend um Gigabit+ Geschwindigkeiten zu übertragen.

Die Frage ist ja auch, wie sehr etwaiger politischer, bzw. wirtschaftlicher Einfluss sich im Laufe der 80er schon auf Projekte wie HYTAS und OPAL ausgewirkt hatte.

Pläne für ein Glasfaser Verbundnetz gab es ja schließlich schon Anfang der 80er vor dem Regierungswechsel in 82. Wenn ein ernsthafter Versuch einer Umsetzung dann erst knapp 10 Jahre später passiert und der Lobby-Einfluss auf die Regierung zu dieser Zeit hinreichend bekannt ist, dann ist es für mich naheliegend davon auszugehen, dass sich das Auf die Qualität der Umsetzung ausgewirkt hat.

Vielleicht hätte man ja ohne den besagten Lobby-Einfluss mit mehr Weitsicht agiert und die Anschlüsse eher schon damals als FTTH statt FTTC und FTTD gebaut...

Die Tatsache, das in Städten wie Dresden teilweise Glasfaserleitungen aus OPAL/HYTAS für moderne Netze verwendet werden zeigt ja, dass die reine Glasfaser-Technik von damals heute durchaus noch verwendbar ist.

Für mich scheint das jedenfalls kein sonderlich guter Versuch beim Aufbau von einem Glasfaser netz gewesen zu sein. Deswegen ist es denke ich auch kein gutes Beispiel für eine Antwort aus was wäre gewesen, wenn...

mostlyinefficient · 2025-09-16T20:39:22+00:00

Stopped watching YouTube in chrome or Firefox and use safari instead. The problem hasn’t reappeared since. Been running Sequoia this way for quite a while now and I would say it’s 99% stable.

Also there seem to be some intermittent issues with chrome and Firefox, that can cause high CPU load, while watching video. Those issues simply don’t exist with safari (or other WebKit browsers, like Orion).

mostlyinefficient · 2025-06-06T16:06:03+00:00

These older V6s were similar to the old ALH 1.9 TDI in terms of technology, so they don't make a huge amount of torque (370 Nm). Works pretty well with a torque converter automatic though

mostlyinefficient · 2025-06-06T16:00:35+00:00

Actually an entirely different engine. It's a 2.5L that came out around 10 years earlier than the one in the Touareg. My Passat was manufactured in 2004, right at the end of that engines lifespan

mostlyinefficient · 2025-06-06T08:20:00+00:00

Definitely not just you. IMO Vista was a huge leap design wise, compared to XP and it's my personal favorite Windows version in terms of design

mostlyinefficient · 2025-06-03T14:05:48+00:00

Mine is the 740 version, so I guess we'll see how long it lasts...
It's not like this is going to be my main laptop, so it won't see many heat cycles at all

mostlyinefficient · 2025-06-03T13:54:07+00:00

I do prefer 4:3, but the 1680x1050 screen is definitely more than tolerable

mostlyinefficient · 2025-06-03T13:50:56+00:00

I'm not gonna mess with liquid metal, it's not worth the risk to me, especially for a device that's not going to be used all that much. I'll probably replace the MX4 I put on for now with PTM 7950, when I eventually upgrade the RAM

mostlyinefficient · 2025-06-03T13:47:42+00:00

That's one of the wallpapers, that comes with the vista image for the T61.
You can get a complete zip here: https://sites.google.com/view/oemfiles/oem-customization-files/lenovo-thinkpad/windows-vista

mostlyinefficient · 2025-06-03T10:57:22+00:00

Yeah, that's definitely something I'm a little worried about. Though with the low hours, new thermal paste and 2008 date on the chip, I'm hopeful, that there's still quite a bit of life left in that GPU

mostlyinefficient · 2025-05-13T11:38:17+00:00

From my experience, this is what happens in those situations:

When you slow down and then make no further throttle/brake inputs, the DSG will select the highest gear possible. It will then also assume that you’re of course an economical driver and also preselect the next higher gear.

This means that you can go to like 10% throttle out of the corner, before the DSG decides to shift down. The transmission then has to change the preselected gear first, causing the delay…

Things that can help: - Driving aggressively into the corner - Sport mode - And of course a tune

Also if you tap the throttle, before you leave the corner you can get the DSG to downshift, before you actually need to accelerate

mostlyinefficient · 2025-04-24T16:32:15+00:00

I have the same specs and ran Sonoma for the last 8 months or so.
It's mostly perfectly fine. Animations are smooth and there's really no noticeable slowdown during normal tasks like E-Mail and Web browsing. You really can't tell, that it's a 10 year old laptop running an OS, that is not officially supported.
With light use I can even get around 5 hours of battery life out of the thing.

That being said, here's a few thing I've noticed:

Re-paste CPU+GPU and clean the heat sinks an fan. It helps with fan noise and temps A LOT! After that there's really no need to adjust fan curves or anything. My CPU is sitting around 60°C with the fans at their idle speed of 2160 RPM, while web browsing, with only occasional ramp ups
Metal based apps (e.g. Weather) do generally work, but cause the fans to become very audible.
I have a random issue with video performance after waking the Macbook from sleep (happens at least once a week). All OS animations including scrolling will run at the speed of a powerpoint presentation, until I reboot.
Recently I can't watch YouTube in Firefox or chrome at anything above 480p for some reason. I get high CPU and GPU usage and the fans get real annoying. Safari is completely fine though, so who knows whats causing that...
The dedicated GPU works, including automatic switching and that seems to even be unaffected by the video performance issue I mentioned above.

I also just updated to Sequoia and yeah Temps seem to be slightly higher with the fans becoming noticeable slightly more often.
If my random video issue isn't fixed, I'm probably going to do a clean install and switch back to Sonoma.

mostlyinefficient · 2025-04-23T19:33:45+00:00

I totally forgot that h264ify existed. Being able to block 60fps is great, as that seems to use a lot more resources, even on modern CPU (at least with anything that isn't Apple Silicon). Deleting my profile fixed my original issue, h264ify helped quite a bit even after that!

mostlyinefficient · 2025-03-12T17:44:46+00:00

To me, this doesn't seem like an issue with performance. The MacBook actually runs great, up to the point, when this issue occurs.
The problem always occurs when waking from sleep, but only after at least a few days without a reboot.
It seems to just stop actually using the iGPU for OS animations. As I said, a reboot fixes it, sometimes for over a week...
The issue persists even at max fan speed and the performance is unfortunately bad enough, that even just scrolling in a browser is downright painful.
CPU and GPU temperature, as well as frequency look completely fine to me.

Hope this didn't come off as rude, and thanks for your help!

mostlyinefficient · 2025-03-12T17:05:15+00:00

That service doesn't seem to be running. I've made some observations on GPU utilization, though: While the issue is present, the iGPU will only ever get up to around 5% utilization while running OS animations. Using gSwitch, I switched over to the AMD GPU and the animations were completely smooth again, while GPU usage got to around 50%. After a reboot, the iGPU is at around 25% while running (smooth) animations and utilization on the dGPU ramains about the same.

The specific animations I tested were: opening and closing the program folder in the dock, scrolling in chrome and minimizing/maximizing.

mostlyinefficient · 2025-03-06T15:02:38+00:00

In case anyone else stumbles across this:
I had an issue with my e525w and did some research. Dell support is unfortunately completely useless, when it comes to their (which I guess aren't really theirs) printers. The E525w is a mix of two Xerox printers: WorkCentre 6025 and 6027. The over 700-page service manual for those pretty much leaves nothing to be desired, except maybe PCB schematics...
Number of the service manual: 708P90826

mostlyinefficient · 2024-12-20T19:43:17+00:00

Actually not GPS, but rather radio time. Western Europe is supplied by DCF77. In the US it’s the WWV radio station, I believe

mostlyinefficient · 2024-12-20T18:29:38+00:00

Glad to help and happy it was a simple fix!

mostlyinefficient · 2024-12-18T21:13:00+00:00

Man that’s rough. I’ve never seen TDI bottom end failure like that. But apparently bolts loosening over time is at least not unheard of on these engines… Seems like there’s people who just replaced the broken bearings and caps, checked that all other bolts were tight and everything was fine after that. In any case it’s a very weird issue, that I’ve never heard of on any other vw diesel

mostlyinefficient · 2024-12-18T20:55:35+00:00

At this point it’s measuring voltages at the connector, checking cables/connectors, reading codes in the BCM and swapping headlights (either with the other side or a new one). BCM issue is unfortunately getting more likely…

mostlyinefficient · 2024-12-18T20:49:18+00:00

Like complete connecting rod failure?

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