@dansup how to delete loops account pls? I can't watch anything without an app and I don't have a smartphone.
@prahou is it possible to learn the power of not having a smartphone
@ozzelot yes, become a niche content creator living off sticker sales
@ozzelot @prahou
I have to admit, I'm a bit of a cheater: I have my olde Lumia, which I mostly use as a remote for TV, mpv, and cmus connected to the audio system — stuff like that. I sometimes pick it up to browse Gemini pointlessly, doomscroll the RSS feeds and hang out on Fedi — but it's hardly as intrusive, the browser it has is very old, with a little CSS face lift Bloat looks neat, but most websites don't work, and there are no notifications which make you pick up the phone again.
@ozzelot @prahou
Sadly, this does NOT help the procrastination problem 😩
Right now I'm cross-compiling old Firefox ESR for my ThinkPad T43 — because that is what I now use on my other machines. Why am I doing this? I don't know — I barely ever use the web browser on that machine.
I mean it's probably better than scrolling through funny cat images — fixing compilation issues is like solving puzzles, right? 🤓
But that is now what I SHOULD BE doing 😅
@prahou @ozzelot
I use that ThinkPad in a different room with no other computers, helps me concentrate. And sometimes I have to resort to using Firefox — better than going to a different room, turning another computer on. It's like casual "old computer challenge" for me, this old machine with only 2 gigs of RAM can only handle a few tabs in Firefox, so it's not even running most of the time, but I have it there just in case 😉
@prahou @ozzelot
Yeah! Mozilla did not abandon marginal architectures like Google did. I've even built Firefox for my PowerMac G5 — it's buggy and it's slower than snails on their lazy day, but it runs!
On i686 Firefox is still in excellent shape — at least on my machines it's stable. I'm paranoid and have dozen of extensions which might contribute to bad performance, but with a couple of tabs open it's quite usable even.
@prahou @ozzelot
Not to brag, but I've spent the whole COVID summer in the country having only this machine on my hands. I've been using it in multi-display setup even… OMG, why, it only has two gigs 🤦
And… (drum roll) I had tried Skype calls on it a couple of times — without video of course, T43 if so cool that it doesn't have a web cam, but audio calls worked!