Developer in a large company on AIX and SAP. I use both OpenBSD, NetBSD and Slackware as test systems for my work on AIX (plus for my own personal use)

  • 0 Posts
  • 6 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: June 26th, 2023

help-circle
  • The biggest impact would be to max out the memory. That will not help with browsers like Firefox, but will help with other items.

    Plus there is a whole world out there that many people ignore or do not know about, USENET and IRC. Accessing those will work with just about any Thinkpad, no matter how old. Plus there is toot for Mastodon (I need to get that working), but not sure if there is a text utility to access lemmy

    I have a Thinkpad which is a bit newer then yours (R51e) with OpenBSD on it. I get by quite well with dillo, links (need to try links2), mutt, tin (USENET) and irssi (IRC). All I did is maxed out memory to 2G. But, I never do banking on the Internet. All I do is need to do is get my pdf bank statement once a month which I use a newer Thinkpad for.