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I Made This

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Did you make something? Do you want the fleeting rush of endorphins that come with affirmation from strangers? Do you think what you made is neat? Share it here!

Paintings, movies, music, drawings, models, gardens, houses, snowmen, sandcastles - if you made it, you can post it.

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- No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, classism, or bigotry of any kind.

- Don't try to sell stuff unless people ask. You can post your Etsy (or similar) if someone prompts you. No spamming self-promotion.

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I built a frugal text browser (Narrow32) because I don't want to pay for internet (europe.pub)
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Hey,

my phone plan (free plan) allows surfing the web for free but with very slow speeds between 32 kbps and 64 kbps. Safari would not load pages and just display website is not reachable due to a timeout. So, I came up with the idea to build a frugal text browser with some nice features that works with my phone plan.

I can disable loading images, media or web fonts. I can set an ad blocking DNS. I can even use LLMs with my slow connection. In settings you can set your own LLM base url and api key. In an emergency situation this is amazing!

I hope other people enjoy it as much as I do. It's completely free.

The app is called Narrow32, search in App Store :)

Btw: The community guided me to !imadethis@lemmy.zip

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[โ€“] altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Offtop, but I recall Opera browser having a Turbo mode that proxied your requests through their servers where they compressed and optimized stuff for your low traffic and low resources usage. I now see something akin to that implemented in PiHole as a network-wide adblocker. All different solutions on different layers, incl. your app, but what one can hope one day is that essential (if not most) services could have themselves had a low-traffic no-bullshit mode availiable upon request from the client, a solid petition material for the likes of EU.

[โ€“] q1p_@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago

Maybe a setting in all browsers would be great, for example "Request lite version of website" that can be toggled on and then a request gets sent to the server which serves the lite version of that website.