Worst computer you have? by ecjonas | tildeverse BBJ

>0 ecjonas @ 2026/03/27 18:44

What's the worst computer (in specs) you have?

>1 cartwright @ 2026/03/27 23:00

Compaq laptop, with 64MB RAM, and Pentium 2 CPU

>2 ecjonas @ 2026/03/28 01:07

>>OP
oof XD 
what OS?

>3 danielaw @ 2026/03/28 12:02

>>OP

A really shitty Chromebook.

>4 ecjonas @ 2026/03/28 12:16

>>3
That's insulting me - I'm accessing this from a Chromebook XD
It's a Plus though, they're pretty good little gaming machines.

>5 ecjonas @ 2026/03/28 12:17

>>4
also i didn't know chromebooks had a pentium 2 option XD

>6 danielaw @ 2026/03/28 16:55

>>4

I promise you I am not insulting your Chromebook, I bought the cheapest one I could find and eventually paid the price.

>7 ecjonas @ 2026/03/28 21:34

>>6
XDDDDDDDDD

>8 cartwright @ 2026/03/31 13:07

>>2
Dual booting Windows 2000 & and an old version of Solaris

>9 ecjonas @ 2026/03/31 15:06

>>8
The Chromebook? How? I have a manual for Solaris 7-8.

>10 anthk @ 2026/04/03 13:51

>>OP

Atom n270, 1GB of RAM, 9front, it flies.
Gopher and IRC as my main comms,
Email and Usenet as a async coms.

I use it for games, Go/AWk/C programming, music,
jabber (either native or thru servers
from https://bitlbee.org).
it's my main machine. I connect to 
the tildeverse with vt(1) and ssh(1).
It shines with hoc/pc and gview
to do plots. Far easier to manage
than Unix. No PM's, a simple script 
rebuilds and upgrades the whole system
than running apt-get upgrade
under Trisquel in my Intel NUC.

The few extra programs are upgraded
with a script using git, it's
just a matter of 5 minutes.

No Python, No Perl, no KSH.
Rc it's a godsend, really easy,
Bash in comparison it's too complex.
I have vim for the Unix withdrawal
syndrome, but I prefer Acme to
edit code and  run
Eforth/Golang under a subterminal.

I can watch videos too,
and read PD comic books (cbz) and
PDF's from Gutenberg.

Altough the shittiest computer
would be a subleq vm (muxleq
actually, mux'ed subleq) with Eforth.
Almost like 8080/Z80 CPU speeds, faster
under muxleq. Enough to play
Sokoban and do EForth for 
prototypes, it's damn small
and liberating.
No AI, OFC.

Also, by supporting Golang I can run 
rclone to restore/backup files
from Nextcloud and 'aio' to compress/decompress
lzma/xz files, where are no decompressors yet.
Very handy.
I use Hell to read Mastodon posts, too.

Now, I even have native tools to dump old doc/xls
files from Microsoft. First they are mounted 
as if the were a filesystem (the MS OLE
spec it's kinda a FAT file) and then the contect
it's extracted either text (DOC) or tabular data
(XLS). Really handy too to interop with people.

Yes, It's a hobbyist OS, but I can be sure that
no upgrade will mess with my settings.

>11 cartwright @ 2026/04/04 16:58

>>9

The compaq is not a chromebook.

>12 ecjonas @ 2026/04/08 13:03

>>11
I was confused LOL