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    From hollowone@VERT/AMIGAC to Moondog on Monday, October 05, 2020 10:05:00
    Lately I've been noticing some of these older boxes I have are getting older t han 15 years old, and the purpose for them can be accomplished with a Raspberrry Pi or other sbc. I would be using a fraction of the electricity and have have space and heat buildup, so it's not a tough decision, or at least appears to be. I keep some older more retro pcs around for nostalgic reasons, and I use some of them for technology transger to the really old retro pc's I have.

    Any other reason than sentimental, personal nostalgia is nuts, regardless how much space you have. I've repurchased my original amiga to keep it in the storage and run my amiga from FPGA based system with original joysticks for games, with much more power in smaller box that runs on 5A android phone adapter, consuming little power.

    ANd that's the key point also mentioned by you. Tech moved so forward that having 2x-5x of the same performance in the same style of old micro-computing can be achieved with today's tech either by emulation or another wave of homebrew computers that you can discover.

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  • From Ogg@VERT/EOTLBBS to Dennisk on Tuesday, October 13, 2020 13:30:53
    On 13/09/2020 11:33 p.m., Dennisk wrote:

    actually have a desktop replacement for most uses. Most
    people really only need basic word processesing,
    spreadsheet, youtube, facebook and maybe a minimal audio
    or video editor.

    "only need facebook".

    That is the problem. Facebook runs like an absolute DOG on
    anything old. I have an older laptop, and it is barely
    usable.

    Have you tried using the https://m.facebook.com doorway on a desktop?

    A typical 2MB load of ads and contents reduces to about 200K, and no
    ads.

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  • From Dennisk@VERT/EOTLBBS to Ogg on Tuesday, October 13, 2020 21:04:00
    Ogg wrote to Dennisk <=-

    On 13/09/2020 11:33 p.m., Dennisk wrote:

    actually have a desktop replacement for most uses. Most
    people really only need basic word processesing,
    spreadsheet, youtube, facebook and maybe a minimal audio
    or video editor.

    "only need facebook".

    That is the problem. Facebook runs like an absolute DOG on
    anything old. I have an older laptop, and it is barely
    usable.

    Have you tried using the https://m.facebook.com doorway on a desktop?

    A typical 2MB load of ads and contents reduces to about 200K, and no
    ads.

    I haven't. Thanks for the tip! I should probably nuke the account instead. The only reason I'm on is for a few "vintage computer" groups, but most of the posts are just people wanting to know how much money they can make selling stuff.


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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Ogg on Tuesday, October 13, 2020 22:08:41
    Re: Facebook runs like an absolute DOG
    By: Ogg to Dennisk on Tue Oct 13 2020 01:30 pm

    Have you tried using the https://m.facebook.com doorway on a desktop?

    A typical 2MB load of ads and contents reduces to about 200K, and no
    ads.


    is that really called a doorway or just the mobile desktop interface?
    i had to use it for a while. i didnt like it on my desktop.
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  • From HusTler@VERT/HAVENS to Ogg on Wednesday, October 14, 2020 08:21:30
    Re: Facebook runs like an absolute DOG
    By: Ogg to Dennisk on Tue Oct 13 2020 01:30 pm

    That is the problem. Facebook runs like an absolute DOG on
    anything old. I have an older laptop, and it is barely
    usable.

    Have you tried using the https://m.facebook.com doorway on a desktop?

    A typical 2MB load of ads and contents reduces to about 200K, and no
    ads.

    https://m.facebook.com runs very nicely on my ancient laptop ;-)

    HusTler
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  • From Android8675@VERT/PHARCYDE to Ogg on Wednesday, October 14, 2020 09:46:57
    Re: Facebook runs like an absolute DOG
    By: Ogg to Dennisk on Tue Oct 13 2020 01:30 pm

    Have you tried using the https://m.facebook.com doorway on a desktop?


    Holy hell that's amazing! The latest iteration of Facebook desktop is horrid. I feel like I could run this on a dedicated mini oled display or something. Thanks Ogg.

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Android8675 on Thursday, October 15, 2020 00:37:51
    Re: Facebook runs like an absolute DOG
    By: Android8675 to Ogg on Wed Oct 14 2020 09:46 am

    Re: Facebook runs like an absolute DOG
    By: Ogg to Dennisk on Tue Oct 13 2020 01:30 pm

    Have you tried using the https://m.facebook.com doorway on a desktop?


    Holy hell that's amazing! The latest iteration of Facebook desktop is horrid. I feel like I could run this on a dedicated mini oled display or

    use facebook purity. it does a trick to switch it back.
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