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Given lightweight software, a 486 tower is usable indefinitely with a zero environmental footprint as long as the electricity comes from a sustainable source (s
by selfhoster11 5y ago
Given lightweight software, a 486 tower is usable indefinitely with a zero environmental footprint as long as the electricity comes from a sustainable source (such as solar).
- kstrauser 5y agoIt is as long as you don’t consider the footprint of the person using it. If it runs more slowly than a modern system such that a human has to spend more time working with it, then it’s almost certainly less resource friendly.
- selfhoster11 5y ago486s ran plenty fast in their time. With a tiny bit of modern hardware like the addition of an SSD, the only thing stopping them from being blazing-fast is modern bloated software stacks.