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Old machines should not be used for anything serious anyway. It will lack firmware and OS updates, modern exploit mitigations and probably has a high power usag

Old machines should not be used for anything serious anyway. It will lack firmware and OS updates, modern exploit mitigations and probably has a high power usage. The main reason gopher died was due to lack of openness in the protocol development. They corrected it in the early 2000's but it was too late by then

anthk 2y ago
>Modern exploit mitigations >OS updates Good luck with modern intel exploits there, and I'm running OpenBSD 7.6 on an Atom n270 nebook like a champion. Power? Maybe a bit high for a machine from late 2000's, but is not so bad compared to a current powerhouse as a desktop. I can play 720p video with no JS needed at all (mpv+yt-dlp), chat with Jabber/IRC/telegram, some of them over Bitlbee. I have locally curated playlists and music from both Jamendo and Internet Archive. I can comment on both HN and Mastodon with https://brutaldon.org https://brutaldon.org I can program in AWK, C and Go. I can plot stuff faster with AWK+GNUplot than most people battling with CUDA, Python and months of GPU usage drawing more power for a mundane task than a quality beef restaurant in a month. I have several services routed from the web to Gopher, even Internet Archive. I can read the news using a laugable bandwidth and CPU on the remote servers. The average desktop today uses far more power with local and remote services in a month than my machine and the Gopher servers over a year.