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Ubuntu seems to be poising itself to letting 32-bitters alone in the dark:https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2016-June/039420.html
in 2018, the question will come if we can effectively provide security support on i386.
cross-grading between i386->amd64 is not something we can reliably ship. We must continue [to] provide the i386 port, to support multiarch and 3rd party legacy application that are only available as i386 binaries.
Building i386 images is not "for free", it comes at the cost of utilizing our build farm, QA and validation time. Whilst we have scalable build-farms, i386 still requires all packages, autopackage tests, and ISOs to be revalidated across our infrastructure. As well as take up mirror space & bandwidth.
Thus the question is what can we and what should we do to limit i386 installations before they become unsupportable?
In essence this would mean April 2021 as the sunset for i386 as the host/base OS architecture. And April 2023 to run legacy i386applications with security support.
I do use, from time to time, a (then, in 2009) top-of-the-notch 3.4GHz P-IV, for the little gaming I do and for printing. But I did notice even it is easily overwhelmed by many javascript-laden sites. How many soylentils are going to fight tooth and nails to keep their 32 pc's up and running beyond 2018, are 32 bit platforms of any relevance today aside as for IoT or CNC processes?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday July 05 2016, @07:48PM
it helps to use an ad blocker, but recently I tried to read a page that explained how to implement responsive tables. I had to close the tab because there was so very much javascript that it was painfully slow to scroll the window.
Quite soon we're going to need 128-bit CPUs with petabytes of DDR57 RAM just to keep up with facebook.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 05 2016, @11:28PM
Next time, give archive.is [archive.is] a try.
Let them run the scripts and absorb the hit on resources.
Allow their boxes to deal with any rogue instructions as well.
it helps to use an ad blocker
You spelled "is mandatory" incorrectly.
...and, again, archive.is saves you the irritation on any sites that insist on being tight-asses.
to keep up with facebook
SCENE: INTERIOR - Village of Tupiza, Bolivia, 1908
Man replies to his partner: "Oh, good. For a moment there, I thought we were in trouble." [google.com]
...and, when thinking about Facebook, the line "Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?" also comes to mind.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 06 2016, @03:54AM
NoScript
whitelist temporarily only if required
(Score: 2) by francois.barbier on Wednesday July 06 2016, @05:33PM
I use it but some websites as so JS ladden that my screen is not large enough to display them all... Seriously?