Notices by Retrograde (retrograde@oldbytes.space)

Trying to get some kind of practical usage out of an old ASRock>ION 330 "nettop" PC I have lying around.

Specs are Intel Dual Core Atom 330 at 1.6GHz, NVIDIA ION GPU and 4 gigs of RAM.

Conclusion is that no matter what I install on it, from #!++ to Haiku, ... it's fine, until you launch a web browser and then it's completely unusable.

Using these and simpler machines would be completely viable if only information could be accessed in, or interactions had in, more lightweight forms rather than being confined to bloated web representations. Like ̶g̶o̶p̶h̶e̶r̶ Gemini, nntp, irc - or even just plain old HTML with focus on content rather than visual design.

How can it *not* be possible to get a usable experience out of 1.6GHz and 4GB RAM? It boggles the mind.

#oldmanyellsatcloud