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BodaciousMunchkin@links.hackliberty.org to commandline@programming.dev · 11 months ago

How and why to use Lynx - the faster web browser

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How and why to use Lynx - the faster web browser

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BodaciousMunchkin@links.hackliberty.org to commandline@programming.dev · 11 months ago
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Lynx is a text based browser. You think the people who browse without JavaScript are weird? Lynx doesn't even do images or CSS! It downloads HTML and renders it at blazing fast speed. If you ever wondered just how slow modern web development has made the web - Lynx will show you the meaning of […]
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  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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    I’m not a masochist

    Not sure I agree

    • BodaciousMunchkin@links.hackliberty.orgOP
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      Completely agree. But if you know, then you did use it at some point right?

      Use lynx to browse a meme community is like closing your eyes while watching a movie, lol that’s my experience.

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        Yeah I tried using it for like 20 seconds and it felt like digging a ditch with a toothpick and broken arms

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    Wait, wasn’t that superseded by links and then links2 like 20 years ago?

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      Came to say more or less this.

      https://github.com/spartrekus/links2

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    thankfully shitflare and it’s lazy or clueless customers are helping make it absolutely unusable day by day

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    Eh, I use it as my “wait, how am I supposed to fiddle with $thingwentwrong again?” quick fix.

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    I know people are into some less-compliant, lighter-weight, less-distracting browsers but… fucking Lynx? Is there a single site that thing can render usably anymore?

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    I do use EWW from time to time

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