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  • klu9@lemmy.catoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    1 month ago

    Used computers at school (BBC B), uni and work (beige PCs); and had video game consoles (Intellivision, NES, Atari Jaguar, 3DO, Philips CD-i, etc) but didn’t my own first home computer until relatively late, bought in 2000.

    A Dell Inspiron 7500 “desktop-replacement” laptop, with:

    • 15-inch 1400x1050 screen (shit hot back then, still higher resolution than many laptops today),
    • 6GB HDD
    • Intel Mobile Pentium CPU (can’t remember exact specs)
    • 128MB RAM (a significantly expensive extra back then)
    • ATI Rage Mobility M graphics
    • Windows 98 SE (I tried out BeOS R5 PE on it, so much more stable but the only available graphics driver could only give 800x640)

    And I’ve been cleaning out my mum’s shoddily built shed and just found it in this sorry state!

    The hinge was always super stiff, and after 4-5 years snapped. I kept it alive for a while by rigging up some brackets to hold the screen. Eventually I put it away, and after a few moves it ended up stored at my mum’s. Now wIth a fair bit of opossum crap on and around it, and rainwater from the leaky shed roof.

    I wonder if there are still any episodes of The Sopranos downloaded from Dalnet IRC on it.




  • Over the last two and half years (since I quit Windows and Vivaldi and went FLOSS only), bouncing around between Firefox, Floorp, Zen, Firedragon and Falkon as my principal browser, while also checking out Pale Moon, Servo, Dillo, Netsurf, Agregore, Kristall. Also “special purpose browsers” like Station, Ferdium and FreeTube. (Is FreeTube a browser? I think it’s an Electron app, which is basically a Blink/Chromium browser, used to browse just one website in this case.)

    Currently on my laptop:

    • Fully-loaded Zen (multiple extensions and a couple of Zen mods) as my main browser
    • Fairly minimal Firefox (just uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger) for streaming music (e.g Spotify without ads)
    • Ferdium for email and IM
    • FreeTube for YouTube (LibRedirect extension in Zen sends YT links to FreeTube automatically)
    • Ungoogled Chromium as a backup in case some site just won’t work with a non-Blink browser. Haven’t used it in months.