@fugger @iska@mstdn.starnix.network @cyberspook The web is the main problem, otherwise old hardware is quite usable. Yesterday I've fired up a neetpad from 50 years ago (Thinkpad T40) to update it and generate ed25519 ssh keys for it. And everything except the web is there. You can use gomuks for matrix, amfora for gemini, mutt for mail and gomphotherium for fedi, mplayer plays 720p videos just fine. And this thing's got only 512 Mb RAM! The web is not the biggest problem, it's the only problem actually.
@cyberspook @iska@mstdn.starnix.network @fugger Yeah, I pipe html messages from mutt to w3m, decoding them with perl first because for some reason quoted-printable encoding is broken in mutt. And yes, there are lynx, links, elinks and all that, but you can hardly use them for the js clusterfuck that's called web nowdays.
@cyberspook @fugger @iska@mstdn.starnix.network It should be like this in theory. But in reality js is often abused and you can't even read text without these fancy decorations. I have js blocked by default in firefox and even some sites for the tech-savvy like python.org or stackexchange show you warnings about enabling js. Pleroma doesn't show you a thing with js disabled I think.
You can use youtube-dl or mpv directly (which in turn will use youtube-dl) for youtube, but you can't avoid js on some other sites.
