[off topic] For the people still using old 16bit vintage PCS - ngIRCd - IRC Server

[Anna “CyberTailor”]

On 2021-08-31 09:00, defdefred wrote:
> I understand, but the point is that older x86 are power intensive.
> So OK to have fun as desktop machine, but not as server running H24...
1) Manufacturing a new computer is significantly more power intensive.
2) Electronic waste is bad.
3) "Reduce. Reuse. Recycle". First two R's are very important...
 
> I do use old computer as main Linux machine... I call them "ordinosaure" in french :-) like computosaure...
I'm writing this email from 18 y/o laptop working as a thin client
(SPICE protocol is amazing!). I call it paleobook ("paleolithic
notebook")