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[off topic] For the people still using old 16bit vintage PCS - ngIRCd - IRC Server

Anna “CyberTailor” cyber at sysrq.in

Tue Aug 31 15:06:33 BST 2021

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On 2021-08-31 09:00, defdefred wrote:

I understand, but the point is that older x86 are power intensive.
So OK to have fun as desktop machine, but not as server running H24...1) Manufacturing a new computer is significantly more power intensive.2) Electronic waste is bad.3) "Reduce. Reuse. Recycle". First two R's are very important...
I do use old computer as main Linux machine... I call them "ordinosaure" in french :-) like computosaure...I'm writing this email from 18 y/o laptop working as a thin client(SPICE protocol is amazing!). I call it paleobook ("paleolithicnotebook")