The challenge went well overall. Stumbled initially with OS selection on a Raspberry Pi 3 due to a wireless networking requirement, and eventually configured a Void Linux installation to use for the week.
Had a 2 GB storage limit on the root partition (/ including /home) as part of the challenge ...
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- Sun Jul 21, 2024 1:32 pm
- Forum: Old Computer Challenge
- Topic: Outcomes?
- Replies: 15
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- Sat Jul 20, 2024 12:46 am
- Forum: Old Computer Challenge
- Topic: SOFTWARE RECOMMENDATIONS
- Replies: 19
- Views: 171235
Re: SOFTWARE RECOMMENDATIONS
OS: Void Linux
The following are CLI/TUI applications. Some may not be available in the repos, but are generally not difficult to build from source.
* File browsers: vifm
* Image viewers: chafa, timg
* Music players: cmus, mocp
* Web browsers: amfora (gemini), offpunk (gemini), w3m (https, gopher ...
The following are CLI/TUI applications. Some may not be available in the repos, but are generally not difficult to build from source.
* File browsers: vifm
* Image viewers: chafa, timg
* Music players: cmus, mocp
* Web browsers: amfora (gemini), offpunk (gemini), w3m (https, gopher ...
- Wed Jun 19, 2024 12:44 pm
- Forum: WWW/HTML
- Topic: netizen club
- Replies: 3
- Views: 87378
Re: netizen club
Website looks neat!
Thanks for the link cache, had a fun few hours browsing the Smithsonian Open Access portal, and pages of banner gifs.
Thanks for the link cache, had a fun few hours browsing the Smithsonian Open Access portal, and pages of banner gifs.

- Wed Jun 19, 2024 12:03 am
- Forum: Old Computer Challenge
- Topic: 2024 plans
- Replies: 56
- Views: 371592
Re: 2024 plans
Maybe the founder is currently busy. Has anyone already reached out to her by email or mastodon to confirm the details?
Could see from re-reading her post on last year's challenge how the 1 hour/day idea might have originated. It seems to be taking a different direction, more a computing habits ...
Could see from re-reading her post on last year's challenge how the 1 hour/day idea might have originated. It seems to be taking a different direction, more a computing habits ...
- Mon Jun 17, 2024 2:16 pm
- Forum: Arts and things
- Topic: Art Tools
- Replies: 4
- Views: 101775
Re: Art Tools
No mentions of MyPaint and Drawpile?
https://mypaint.app/
Emulates "traditional" media. Not a full-fledged editor like Krita, more focused on sketching, but lighter memory footprint.
https://drawpile.net/
Collaborative drawing app. Hosting a server would need more memory, but the client should run ...
https://mypaint.app/
Emulates "traditional" media. Not a full-fledged editor like Krita, more focused on sketching, but lighter memory footprint.
https://drawpile.net/
Collaborative drawing app. Hosting a server would need more memory, but the client should run ...
- Mon Jun 17, 2024 1:58 pm
- Forum: Old Computer Challenge
- Topic: 2024 plans
- Replies: 56
- Views: 371592
Re: 2024 plans
Hi everyone, first post, please pardon any errors of my newbie ways.
Also awaiting confirmation on whether the recent announcement for 1 hour of computing per day is finalised, since it's not yet officially outlined on the website. Looking towards doing a mini custom version this year if the 1-hour ...
Also awaiting confirmation on whether the recent announcement for 1 hour of computing per day is finalised, since it's not yet officially outlined on the website. Looking towards doing a mini custom version this year if the 1-hour ...