I use Bunsenlabs and like it a lot

The atom cpu in this has a powervr sgx545 gpu which is barely supported by anything. Ubuntu 12.04 has some support but it’s only 2d acceleration.

But the last release for it will be in December.

There is the fork mentioned in the forum post here.

https://forum.syncthing.net/t/discontinuing-syncthing-android/23002

https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android

I don’t use Syncthing and don’t have an Android phone so I can’t really speak for it in terms of functionality.

Id make it 2 or 3 gb. That being said, 1 gb is fine for such a light install. I have a similarly specced pentium M machine running modern debian with OpenBox. For heavier tasks, it was hitting swap (using a web browser). Upping it to 2 gb ram fixed that.

Edit: this also came with an ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 gpu which probably has a bit more support than the PowerVR gpu in the Atom.

There’s quite a few. I have bunsenlabs helium installed on a 32 bit pentium M laptop. It’s very usable, for a 20 yo single core machine. For basic things, it’s still fine. I do have some gpu acceleration though which is a benefit.

OpenBox but that’s a window manager, not a DE.

I was thinking embedded clients would be the bigger issue. Stuff like POS machines, that sort of thing.

It’s 2 4 gb sticks and so I’d have to hope that it supports 16 gb of ddr3.

As for the ssd, that’s in the cards eventually. But since it’s an aio Pc, it’s an utter pain to work on

It’s actually not shit for a hdd which confuses me. It’s just an Hitachi Travelstar hdd. I’ve used faster (on paper) machines that don’t feel as responsive as that computer.

It’s an i5-2430m powered AIO PC with a HDD and 8 gb of ram (its only saving grace). It’s fine for what my dad uses it for, which is largely web browsing for work and excel.

I made that comment to my mom this morning. Also I have tried Linux on that machine and its weird. It has a very old digitizer that sort of works. (Sony Vaio AIO). Disabling it is a #1 priority.

He’s technically inclined enough to install it himself entirely.

Other issue is the wireless card. It’s an old Qualcomm card (not ath9k).

We’ll figure it out once windows 11 stops working. Or if the drive dies.

I need to try that actually for my old laptop. It blue screens if it updates past 1809

As of 15 min ago, my dad has decided to install windows 11 on his 12 year old home pc. Oh boy.

Idk if it counts as GenAI but I use Waifu2x to remove jpg artifacts and upscale textures to a useable state.

It’s like a few mb best case scenario. Most people were getting really bad dsl speeds. For me, my game streaming was horribly compressed and almost unplayable.

Edit: this was 2023/4

Stg some colleges regressed in their network. I transferred colleges and at my old college, I occasionally struggled to stream steam games from my desktop in my dorm. The university I graduated from last had proper gigabit. I knew some people form my old college and it somehow got worse.

Trying to disable the lid close sensor on my laptop. My issue is twofold. It’s a convertible (pavilion x360) and I’m using bunsenlabs Linux.

ikr. Deezer can’t be that unknown. Right?

Because you could fry your PC.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/02/google-engineer-finds-usb-type-c-cable-thats-so-bad-it-fried-his-chromebook-pixel/ USB Type-C cable so bad it fries Google engineer’s Chromebook Pixel

Did yours overheat really badly? My 11th gen i5 pavilion did. Repaste, everything. Just ran super hot on battery. It’d kick on the fan and goodbye battery

That’s actually nuts. I have an iphone x, I remember when that came out and everyone was surprised that it was as fast as an i5-7200u. Yeah sure it’s a dual core laptop chip but still very impressive.