Hello,
I really like the concept of cheap, energy efficient and small Android desktop PCs but some reviews described the Remix Mini's browsing performance as unresponsive and sluggish. The main reason might be that while the processing power of small ARM systems is more than enough for word processing and every day office tasks, the browsing performance of websites got messed up over the years "thanks" to Javascript being used to create annoying animated advertisements and tracking scripts that spy on the users.
To solve this problem Jide could preinstall an adblocker for the Remix IO's / Mini's browser like the Raspberry Pi foundation, who also offers small ARM PCs, recently did with the inclusion of ublock origin into their latest Raspbian release. They also included the h264ify addon to force Youtube to serve videos as h.264 versions that can be decoded by the Raspberry Pi 3's hardware decoder.
"We’ve preinstalled a couple of extensions; the uBlock Origin adblocker should hopefully keep intrusive adverts from slowing down your browsing experience, and the h264ify extension forces YouTube to serve videos in a format which can be accelerated by the Pi’s hardware."
raspberrypi.org/blog/introducing-pixel
Cheers,
T-Bone
I really like the concept of cheap, energy efficient and small Android desktop PCs but some reviews described the Remix Mini's browsing performance as unresponsive and sluggish. The main reason might be that while the processing power of small ARM systems is more than enough for word processing and every day office tasks, the browsing performance of websites got messed up over the years "thanks" to Javascript being used to create annoying animated advertisements and tracking scripts that spy on the users.
To solve this problem Jide could preinstall an adblocker for the Remix IO's / Mini's browser like the Raspberry Pi foundation, who also offers small ARM PCs, recently did with the inclusion of ublock origin into their latest Raspbian release. They also included the h264ify addon to force Youtube to serve videos as h.264 versions that can be decoded by the Raspberry Pi 3's hardware decoder.
"We’ve preinstalled a couple of extensions; the uBlock Origin adblocker should hopefully keep intrusive adverts from slowing down your browsing experience, and the h264ify extension forces YouTube to serve videos in a format which can be accelerated by the Pi’s hardware."
raspberrypi.org/blog/introducing-pixel
Cheers,
T-Bone
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