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Re:The Old Computer Challenge by zozbot234 on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @03:26PM (#27764867)
> The biggest problem in this challenge would be the web, I suppose, as a recent web browser that supports Javascript and all that will easily use more than 1GB of RAM just by itself.

You'd be surprised, I've found that 1GB devices are still quite usable on the 'modern' web by adding some swap space and not having too many tabs. Of course that's approaching the lower bound of usefulness these days.

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Re:The Old Computer Challenge by anthk on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @05:38PM (#27766011)
- Install ZRAM on your Linux distro

- Ublock Origin is a must. If not: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts. Clone it, backup /etc/hosts, append the content of the /hosts subfiles MINUS the localhost and ::1 lines.

- Use a bare window manager, not a DE. Cwm, icewm, doesn't matter. Use lxappearance to set up your gtk theme to something you like.

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