From: sizeofcat@riseup.net   
      
   On 2025-10-30 15:26:11 +0000, mrcoffee said:   
      
   > On Thu, 30 Oct 2025 08:51:00 +0200, sizeofcat wrote:   
   >   
   >> I've mentioned it before, my main computers are those in the signature,   
   >> my main machine is a PowerPC iMac G5 (2004) and as a laptop I use a   
   >> PowerPC iBook G4 (2005), both running OS X 10.5.8. For what I am doing   
   >> currently, they're doing their job just fine (light web browsing,   
   >> Usenet, XCode, gcc15 compiling, git, Lazarus IDE, sending and receiving   
   >> email, IRC, old games, etc).   
   >   
   > Any particular challenges with running modern internet websites on a   
   > computer of that age? I know on /g/ I occasionally still see someone using   
   > Windows XP so I suppose its possible with the right web browser.   
      
   Javascript and its frameworks are the biggest enemy, I don't use   
   Youtube and friends, I maintain a TenFourFor (Firefox) fork with   
   disabled video/audio support, which gives me proper image and text web   
   browsing and nothing else. For those special times when I need my bank   
   token, I remote admin into a 2012 Macbook Air which runs an Android VM   
   just for that.   
      
   I don't play modern games either (Quake, Starcraft, Warcraft, Alpha   
   Centauri, Fallout, Homeworld, Diablo, Unreal Tournament, Call of Duty,   
   Sims 2, Age of Empires, Heroes of Might and Magic, those are my   
   friends), so I mostly use my computers to write code (PHP 8.2 now since   
   I have a small community project that requires it), information access   
   (web browsing, BBS, Usenet, Gopher), listen to music (old iTunes was a   
   gem for me), chat with people (IRC mostly), and email.   
      
   Keep in mind that my computers are not 486-level, both the G4 and the   
   G5 CPUs are workhorses for their time, and coupled with 1.5-2GB of RAM   
   they can hold their ground easily.   
      
   For anything else that OS X doesn't offer, I have modern Unix tools   
   (git, coreutils, fossil, sqlite, jq, gcc15, cmake, autoconf/automake,   
   etc) and the only things missing are golang and rust, and I'm not using   
   either of them anyway.   
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   Website: http://sizeof.cat   
   Desktop: iMac G5 PowerPC, 2GB RAM, 2004   
   Laptop: iBook G4 PowerPC, 1.5GB RAM, 2005   
      
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