I’ve got an Acer Aspire from 2008 running mint on an Intel Atom and 1 GB memory (might be 2, I forget). It is slow but very usable except for video and such.

Do you have the original disc? As I recall Wine runs it just fine.

This is sort of the plot of Children of Time

If it helps the real version is still pretty cool, with basically two transmissions and switches on the shifter

Also the miniseries with Kenneth Branagh is pretty good. Then for counterpoint watch The Last Place on Earth

Its still the same as it ever was, just less traffic and they charge five bucks to list vehicles now. I still use it but responses are a lot slower.

Craigslist still exists, I use it fairly often.

Yeah you usually can. LibreOffice works fine for most things. Some classes need things like Solid works that only run on Windows, and the remote testing software can be a nightmare. You might get an O365 license as part of your enrollment but doubt you really need it.

Protip; learn how to typeset your papers in something like LyX and integrate Zotero for citation management. The typesetting usually got me a few extra points alone.

Same - can sync snapshots from Truenas to Backblaze.

If you want to get real fancy you could stash an N40L cube server at your mom’s house where she will never find it and VPN back to your local network and replicate snapshots to it

Helps if you have lots of low end torque. I know my Scirocco 16V hated that low speed, but 2L Fiats you can drive almost without ever using the clutch, idling along.

Its funny, I like traffic with a manual better than an automatic. I can just idle along, control speed almost fully with the gas. Play the game where I see if I can roll to a stop going up hill and apply brake just as I stop.

Make sure the cell provider hasn’t banned the model. AT&T banned a bunch of perfectly good unlockable international phones and kept the locked local ones not supporting lineage. They still work of course, just can’t make calls.

There’s a ton of junk - Bixby, the Samsung cloud apps, I have one I have to keep stock for work and another i have Lineage on and the difference is very noticeable, battery drain for one

Just spend the ten minutes once a month to pay from your bank using the payment service.

It worked perfectly well to install though? Like why does it matter if its old

The click and distortion is the auto degaussing. Probably happens because the power button is stuck down. You used to push and hold on some models to degauss.

Mint runs on a 17-year-old Acer Aspire One I have. Slowly, very slowly, but perfectly.

Anyone pick up any of those cheap Quanshen radios to listen to ATC traffic?

Every now and then a website doesn’t work on Firefox.

Jellyfin is working pretty well for TV too, with the Schedules Direct feed. Just doesn’t get the naming right.