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> They have ruined web design.

With regards to that: maybe we should switch away from responsive designs? Modern phones have big enough screens that it s often better to navigate a medium-desktop site by zooming rather than by collapsing everything to an endless scrolling stream. I find often that trying to compromise things to fit in responsive design is annoying for little benefit.

> They have led to massive centralization

I really wish someone comes up with a successful home router that includes preloaded optional decentralized services like ipfs. It's a pity that we don't take advantage of can't take advantage of that always-on computing power in the era of crappy-battery tablets and phones.



> Modern phones have big enough screens

Not all phones have big screens. Not all people want phones with big screens, and even though it's the current fashion that may change in a few years.


Agreed. But they have high enough resolution to show any website in a reasonable, pinchable way


But mobile browsers choose not to. Text too small? All you can do is zoom in and then you're stuck scrolling back and forth line by line.


Unfortunately there's no way the current IPFS daemon can run on a router. It barely runs on a PC, and has unusably high latency, in my experiments.




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