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This year, I'm using my beloved Thinkpad x270, limited to 610MB RAM and a single core 400MHz CPU.
Yup. Linux Mint doesn't boot with 512MB RAM, and the alternative is installing a whole other distro for a week. So I'm bending the rules a bit, because otherwise I wouldn't be doing this at all.
I spent more time than I care to admit making my neofetch look all pretty, so I could post a picture to fedi. I then got sidetracked, remembering a cute cowsay-style tool someone made in toki pona, called kijetesantakaluotokieni. Yeah. That's the name. I had to install cargo to install it, and I noticed it was *really* slow to install, considering how simple it is.
After messing with that for a while, I watched some YouTube using the FreeTube program, while eating breakfast (yoghurt! yay!). I feel like this is pretty cheaty, since it's making the most of my modern GPU, but... I'm allowing it, because I say so. Runs fine with so little RAM, for the record. A bit sluggish at times, but video playback has been totally OK.
I scrolled through fedi for a while, with no troubles since I already use qutebrowser. If I want multiple tabs, or try to look at Discord, it starts to chug, sure. But it's taking it like a champ so far. I then realized "hey, I want to write about this and put it on gemini", so I set all of that up, and wrote this very sentence with an incredible amount of self-awareness.
By about lunch time, my battery was getting low- sooner than normal, for sure. I suppose the "hardware minimum" clock speed isn't the most energy efficient one. I ended up sorting through my wardrobe while it charged, and consolidated the growing piles of laundry that needed doing. I'm hoping to get through that over the week, so I can tell exactly how many clothes I own, and know how liberal I can afford to be in throwing out worn out stuff.