m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

@prahou @ozzelot
Yep, I've been eyeing it for years now, but my (mostly fruitless) attempts to tone down on computer-related autism get in the way.
Should I turn T43 on and test newly built Firefox or should I consider starting cooking the dinner instead now that I have all the ingredients?
Or! Maybe I should shut down my Plenomer instance (so slow on G4, barely usable anyway) and switch to snac2 finally? 🫠

@prahou @ozzelot
It very well could be, on Linux it's rock solid though. I was actually thinking of switching to some sort of BSD on this machine… Yeah, the Fish most probably, FreeBSD is about to drop support for x86 anyway.
I'm a bit scared that it might turn into another big procrastination quest — so… no, let's leave it be!
(I'll restrain myself to just building FF for it 😅)

@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!

@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
It's cool and all, but I could not build it for this x86 machine. Surprisingly, for 32-bit PowerPC and ARM machines I've built it with minor fixes 🤔 It's a very odd error, but I'm not skilled enough with Nim to fix it myself.
It has a weird public domain license that for some might be off-putting, if you aren't picky — check it out, it's really cool, it supports the Web AND Gemini, albeit without client certificates — so for Gemini it's "read only" at the moment, still not bad!

@prahou @ozzelot
Otherwise I mostly use TUI software there: gomuks for Matrix chats, tut for Fedi, mutt for email, Amfora for Gemini and vim for everything else, the Web… I'm of a w3m man myself — it can display images in patched st with sixel support, which is nice.
There is this new chawan browser: https://sr.ht/~bptato/chawan/
It also supports images and even has support for CSS and JS which you do not normally see in a TUI browser.

@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 😉

@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 😅

@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.

@prahou @ozzelot
Screen time? Which apps I use the most? 🤔
My smartphone usage patterns are something like this 🤪

@romin
I WAS surprised TBH — it's Void so I was expecting to find it at least here 😨

@romin

@prahou @ozzelot
I'm unemployed and although I have a smartphone, it sometimes manages to collect several layers of dust over the course of weeks 😆

@romin
If you refuse to use nano, next time they are making you edit config files in AbiWord 🤪

@prahou @ozzelot @nina_kali_nina
If cypherpunks exist, does cypherbullying?
Like… Refusing to accept invites to unencrypted Matrix chatrooms? Requesting key exchange algorithms that sshd does not support? 🤔

@fiore @max @snacks
Indeed, the compiler doesn't warn you about shit… But in case with Rust you're in some cases doing things in a very inefficient way just to make the compiler SHUT THE FUCK UP — because you feel that re-writing it in an idiomatic way for Rust might make your head explode 🤯
All in all, nothing is perfect, the article is absolutely right about that.

@fiore @max @snacks
You have to learn how to write *idiomatic* Go code (at least read The Go Programming Language), then a lot of mistakes are easy to avoid — and a lot of things start making sense, those that don't — never do 😂