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Allero@lemmy.today 18 hours agoRecently 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 17 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 6 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.