How to speed up your computer

• Context:

• people can detect tiny millisecond differences
• Typing with pleasure | Pavel Fatin 
• Input lag AB test- Blur Busters Forums 
• Speed is the killer feature- bdickason.com
• Speed matters: Why working quickly is more important than it seems
• Fast · Patrick Collison
• living with lag - an oculus rift experiment

• OS:

• disable Siri in the system settings
• use TinkerTool to remove most of the animations from macOS, which makes it feel much snappier

• Hardware in order of importance

• Macbook Air M1 is very fast (it's relatively cheap refurbished)
• Danluu.com suggests the Apple Magic Keyboard or Microsoft B2M-00012 Natural Ergo Keyboard 4000 have the least lag
• G502 wired mouse
• 500Hz Gaming Monitor- AW2525HF

• “refresh rate isn’t just for gamers
• I often hear it said that high refresh rates only apply to gamers. Indeed, I’ve probably said that myself more than once in the past. But I’m starting to rethink this, because there’s a killer app that runs beautifully at 144Hz, 240Hz, 360Hz, and even 500Hz: Microsoft Windows.
• Here’s the thing: everything I’ve said about motion clarity and resolution applies just as strongly to Windows as it does to games. A 240Hz display makes text and health bars above League of Legends characters easier to read—and it does the same when scrolling through a PDF document.
• The results are meaningful. As you might’ve noticed, modern life involves a lot of scrolling: through social media feeds, through YouTube recommendations, through Amazon results, and so on. A higher refresh rate directly improves the readability of text and thumbnails as you scroll through these apps and websites.
• It also makes the operating system feel snappy. Lower input latency is also a factor, but I think smoother rendering of graphics and animations is what’s most responsible. Many modern smartphones, from the iPhone to Samsung’s Galaxy line, have moved to a 120Hz display for precisely this reason.
• I’ve become so accustomed to these benefits, in fact, that I’m cursed: I can now readily tell when the Windows Desktop is running at 60Hz. The entire operating system feels slower, clunkier, and antiquated.”

• Internet

• Wireless is a trap | benkuhn.net 

• I got wired internet via the powerline without putting a cable from my modem to my office with (I use: TP-Link).

• Cloudflare Warp+
• Free Google DNS server speeds up browsing

• Browser plugins:

• FasterWeb uses just-in-time preloading; it preloads a page right before you click on it
• Speeds up browing over the time, by adding missing Cache-Control response headers. This extension enhances the re-use of already downloaded images/scripts etc. thus speeds up loading of pages.
• Tab Wrangler- Automatically closes inactive tabs and makes it easy to get them back. This reduces load.
• Auto Tab Discard Increase browser speed and reduce memory load when you have numerous open tabs.
• Or chrome://settings/performance memory saver
• chrome://settings/preloading
• uBlock Origin- an efficient blocker. Easy on CPU and memory

• Need to allow preloading by unchecking the default chrome-extension://cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm/dashboard.html#settings.html

• Privacy Badger automatically learns to block invisible trackers.

• chrome-extension://pkehgijcmpdhfbdbbnkijodmdjhbjlgp/skin/options.html 

• Click&Clean cleans cookies
• Vimium provides keyboard shortcuts for navigation and control in the spirit of Vim.
• If you have slow internet consider

• automatically enable data-savings mode at compatible websites to tell websites that you prefer to save data and costs.
• A data compression proxy
• Combine mobile and broadband via Speedify 

• Use Crackbook Revival to slow down addictive websites like FB, Twitter, Amazon, Whatsapp, etc.

Software:

• Alfred for shortcuts