You can try playing with Arkenfox, installing uBlock Origin, fiddling with about:config, and giving yourself an aneurysm…
…or you could try Mullvad Browser. It’s a fork of Firefox, co-developed by Mullvad and The Tor Project, with impressive fingerprinting resistance (according to Cover Your Tracks). It’s like Tor Browser without Tor.
Also, install NoScript. It helps a lot.
Looks like it is. I had noticed a few Mastodon and Misskey instances blocking poa.st, but I didn’t realise it was the same as poast.org.
Good thing there are other instances now!
My HP’s hinge broke, too. I had to pack the entire back of the case with putty in order to fix it, and it’s still not quite right.
I know. I’ve worked with it myself, and I once accidentally inhaled a small volume of it.
A-Level chemistry, innit.
HCl‽ Jaysus…
Well, I often just do a bank transfer or card payment. I’ve tried to use Monero, but I’ve had trouble getting ahold of any crypto without selling my soul to Guardarian.
The letter arrived yesterday.
Hey, if you can make it work, it would be a hell of a cool system. Very hacker-y.
I like the Gormanian and Holocene calendars; but I use the Gregorian for compatibility with the rest of humanity.
Also, as I live in Britain, I use an unholy mixture of metric, imperial, and archaic measurements.
Length of an object? Centimetres. Height of a human? Feet and inches. Mass of flour? Grams. Mass of a human? Stones, pounds, and ounces. Distance by car? Miles. Distance on foot? Kilometres. Volume of a soft drink? Litres or millilitres. Volume of beer or milk? Pints. Volume of non-dairy milk? Also litres and millilitres.
Europe/London, BST, UTC+01:00
Do you use a different calendar system, by any chance?
Yes, but one would assume I meant the 19th of the current month of the current year.
Also “They said the 19th June 2024” doesn’t work so great as a title.
Oh damn! Yeah, no, the old Atom series will be slow on anything other than, like, Puppy Linux.
Here are a few distros to try:
And here are some software substitutions:
You will be able to run Firefox and Chromium, but they will be somewhat sluggish and likely to freeze or crash, in my experience.
Also, the suckless tools are really good for this. Back on my old Raspberry Pi, I used to be able to compile st and surf in under a minute, and dwm ran brilliantly.
~Source: my old Raspberry Pi, although arm-based, and my old MacBook had similar specs.~
It’s an Acer Aspire 5742z: a chunky old laptop from 2009.
It requires proprietary WiFi drivers and only has one working USB port because the other two are on a separate board connected to the motherboard by a ribbon cable that seems to have shrunk by a millimetre or two over the years, so it no-longer reaches the contacts.
The keyboard has a decent amount of travel and it’s easy to clean with compressed air. However, the keys are a bit harder to press than on other keyboards I have, so it’s easy to miss out letters when typing quickly. It’s also difficult to put the keys back on once removed; but at least they are removable.
The performance is okay, and I had to pull some extra RAM out of another machine to get it to run smoothly. This machine originally only had 3GB. However, it is easy to upgrade and repair.
To be honest, you’d probably be better off with a late-2000s ThinkPad or a mid-2010s MacBook.
American flag checks out.
You probably could, but you’d need to use twin instead of Xfwm in order for the deKorator theme to work.
Yeah, it’s pretty cool what you can do with deKorator.
GTK: GNU’s Not Unix Image Manipulation Program Toolkit