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Worst computer you have?
OP: ecjonas
#0 · ecjonas · 2026-03-27 18:44:21
What's the worst computer (in specs) you have?
#2 · ecjonas · 2026-03-28 01:07:42
Replying to: ecjonas
oof XD
what OS?
#8 · cartwright · 2026-03-31 13:07:48
Replying to: ecjonas
Dual booting Windows 2000 & and an old version of Solaris
#9 · ecjonas · 2026-03-31 15:06:19
Replying to: cartwright
The Chromebook? How? I have a manual for Solaris 7-8.
#3 · danielaw · 2026-03-28 12:02:42
Replying to: ecjonas
A really shitty Chromebook.
#4 · ecjonas · 2026-03-28 12:16:38
Replying to: danielaw
That's insulting me - I'm accessing this from a Chromebook XD
It's a Plus though, they're pretty good little gaming machines.
#5 · ecjonas · 2026-03-28 12:17:22
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also i didn't know chromebooks had a pentium 2 option XD
#6 · danielaw · 2026-03-28 16:55:56
Replying to: ecjonas
I promise you I am not insulting your Chromebook, I bought the cheapest one I could find and eventually paid the price.
#7 · ecjonas · 2026-03-28 21:34:46
Replying to: danielaw
XDDDDDDDDD
#10 · anthk · 2026-04-03 13:51:30
Replying to: ecjonas
Atom n270, 1GB of RAM, 9front, it flies.
Gopher and IRC as my main comms,
Email and Usenet as a async coms.
I use it for games, Go/AWk/C programming, music,
jabber (either native or thru servers
from https://bitlbee.org).
it's my main machine. I connect to
the tildeverse with vt(1) and ssh(1).
It shines with hoc/pc and gview
to do plots. Far easier to manage
than Unix. No PM's, a simple script
rebuilds and upgrades the whole system
than running apt-get upgrade
under Trisquel in my Intel NUC.
The few extra programs are upgraded
with a script using git, it's
just a matter of 5 minutes.
No Python, No Perl, no KSH.
Rc it's a godsend, really easy,
Bash in comparison it's too complex.
I have vim for the Unix withdrawal
syndrome, but I prefer Acme to
edit code and run
Eforth/Golang under a subterminal.
I can watch videos too,
and read PD comic books (cbz) and
PDF's from Gutenberg.
Altough the shittiest computer
would be a subleq vm (muxleq
actually, mux'ed subleq) with Eforth.
Almost like 8080/Z80 CPU speeds, faster
under muxleq. Enough to play
Sokoban and do EForth for
prototypes, it's damn small
and liberating.
No AI, OFC.
Also, by supporting Golang I can run
rclone to restore/backup files
from Nextcloud and 'aio' to compress/decompress
lzma/xz files, where are no decompressors yet.
Very handy.
I use Hell to read Mastodon posts, too.
Now, I even have native tools to dump old doc/xls
files from Microsoft. First they are mounted
as if the were a filesystem (the MS OLE
spec it's kinda a FAT file) and then the contect
it's extracted either text (DOC) or tabular data
(XLS). Really handy too to interop with people.
Yes, It's a hobbyist OS, but I can be sure that
no upgrade will mess with my settings.
#1 · cartwright · 2026-03-27 23:00:41
Compaq laptop, with 64MB RAM, and Pentium 2 CPU
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