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Originally posted by Nicole

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I had forgotten how adorable that machine was; look at its little tiny trackpad! aww so cute

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In case you were wondering, I bought it off of Nicole in one way or another (I think I actually got it from Sofi, who had gotten it from Nicole)

Originally posted by Sanky

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A VNC server? This thing is probably better left as a VNC client - just let a more powerful computer do the heavy duty

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This may be true, but I can't imagine it would work well if only because of the abysmally small screen 1920×1080 is over twice as large as 800×480 in any direction, so there would be way too much scrolling. Even my IRC client is bigger than that.


Though the reverse is true, too; the RealVNC client for Chrome limits the window to a minimum of 800×600 but doesn't have any correction for screens that are smaller than that. The display is padded on either side to be centered vertically, but the mouse isn't corrected, so the top of the VNC window (which is just a gray border) corresponds to the top of the "actual" screen. Really fun when you have to keep your (local) mouse about 60 pixels above what you want the remote mouse to click

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For old PCs, I still had the ancient Toshiba Satellite kicking around. It's actually visible from my bed right now, but it might finally be on the way out (last I checked it needed some, uh, deep cleaning, as it picked up some interesting problems in the moves)

That thing kept going all the way until I stopped using it two or three years ago It was a surprisingly nice, small laptop, with just enough capability to (barely) browse the web and use IRC and an ancient version of Trillian, but no more.

I feel like in modern times OSes have become so bloated and heavy that you're in an arms race against the developers. New hardware often barely feels faster with the latest and greatest; something as (generally speaking) simple as Tweetdeck should not be eating 4-plus gigabytes of memory, when a simple rendering of a Twitter feed takes up only a few hundred K/a MB or two on an ancient browser.

I dunno, I guess I'm nostalgic for the days when 32 MB of RAM was small, but still enough to manage things competently.

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