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my mom or dad bought this weirdly powerful-for-the-time laptop in 2005, dell xps m140

512 mb of ram and a pentium m, i mean thats not half bad right?
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Give it a 2 Gb swap partition and it would be a nice machine for TUI stuff, maybe occasional Fedi scrolling with Bloat and surf. I have a ThinkPad T40 with half a gig of RAM and 1,5 GHz Pentium-M: I can run gomuks for Matrix chats, mutt for email, amfora and w3m, and tut for TUI Fedi experience — it's not THAT bad.

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@m0xee i mean even at the time i think the amount of memory this thing had would have probably been a deal breaker in some cases, but otherwise it's widescreen which iirc wasn't common in 2005, and has windows media center of all things

multimedia machine..
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@m0xee im not even planning to do anything modern on it tho lol im probably going to install a nightly build of reactos to see if it explodes
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@kirby @m0xee you could run Haiku on it
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@gray @m0xee i might but it's probably going to work normally, kind of looking for a wild ride rn
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@kirby @m0xee in that case ReastOS is probably perfect for you
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@kirby @m0xee for an even more niche os you could try Syllable: https://syllable.metaproject.frl/

It was dead for a while but they're trying to bring it back. It kind of has an Amiga look.
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@gray @m0xee I'll have to take a look at this soon thank you
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I think I have Syllable on an old Toshiba Satellite 4600 that has 5-6 operating systems on it: Windows 2000, Plan9, Ubuntu, QNX and… I don't even remember what else 🤪

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@m0xee @kirby Syllable caught my interest way back looking at Amiga like OSes.

They're trying to get it back under development.
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You can still watch YouTube in 720p using mpv and yt-dlp on a machine like that, you can even try 1080p encoded with low complexity, but forget about doing it over the network: https and ssh give this CPU enough extra workload to make the video stutter, I'm not kidding you — so internal storage only.

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And of course you can run vim and write some code, but don't plug rust-analyzer or any other heavy language server into it — it might make vim completely unusable on a machine like that.

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