• AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net
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    21 hours ago

    I revived a friend’s old laptop by installing Linux on it, and I told her that using Linux entitled her to a small amount of “nerd creds”. Years later, she told me that it did end up eliciting mild approval from a woman who ended up being her partner for multiple years. The system works!

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    1 day ago

    Linux is between the requirements of a raspberry pi pico and a raspberry pi zero I would say

    Although some crazy person did get Linux running on an esp32 once

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    2 days ago

    anyone else felt the impending finger slice in that photo? case looks pissed and out for flesh.

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        There are people out there powering their PC with electricity … what a bunch of environmentally unfriendly weirdos.

        I just top up my BSU (blood supply unit) daily and it purrs (in Latin) like a charm.

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        I’ve seen videos of people run Damn Small Linux with a GUI on Pentium 1s.

        None of them are very recent, so I don’t know how well ‘modern’ DSL would fare on a P1, but there are a few recent videos of people browsing the web using Dillo on Pentium 3s.

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    2 days ago

    I installed Tiny Core Linux on an old ass netbook laptop on which even Windows 7 kinda lagged. Went CLI only, no DE and made the laptop thousand times more usable. I’ve basically repurposed that laptop as an external hard drive for things I don’t need backed up but good to have a backup of.

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    Man I love Lubuntu, it’s such a tiny distro that makes even old as fuck machines semi functional for modern usage.

    Even those weird ass atom netbooks work like a charm with it and you can actually do decent work on them!

    And the best part is that the UI keeps being understandable by average windows users

    Great distro,.10/10, would install on a Compaq laptop again

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      2 days ago

      Xubuntu brought a garbage Vista era system to usable levels for me for a dumb video I made a while ago, wasn’t fast but definitely usable.