Comment on The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 18 hours agoIts a nice flex to be more productive on a potato than some are on the fancy stuff
Comment on The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 18 hours agoIts a nice flex to be more productive on a potato than some are on the fancy stuff
Allero@lemmy.today 16 hours ago
Recently got OpenSUSE Tumbleweed installed on an old 32-bit Eee PC.
The thing was an absolute ultra-budget potato 14 years ago when it was released, and yet, it still works just fine if all you need is editing some documents in LibreOffice. And, it lasts 6 hours on a single charge!
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Conceptually I really like the old netbooks.
I’ve gotten into self hosting and like the idea of using a netbook as a thin client.
Allero@lemmy.today 4 hours ago
I’m kinda sad that netbooks mostly died off as a device class. I’d love to explore newer options.
Self-hosting is cool! But having played around with it myself, I just found thin clients to be not so useful in a single-user environment. At most, it could be useful if you want high battery life and the ability to run something heavy from time to time. But being tied to Internet gets annoying very quickly.
Still, as a printing machine + occasionally connecting to the server for something more, it does deliver.