YAY! :D Thanks for the love and great screenshot!
Howdy! To celebrate the Old Computer Challenge 2023 and to help people stay connected to Mastodon on their retro machines, I've put up an instance of the wonderful, sparse Mastodon client Brutaldon. It's available both via HTTP and HTTPS on any reasonably good browser with basic CSS support (ie; netsurf, older firefox, mozilla). Netscape support is forthcoming.
In celebration of the Old Computer Challenge 2023 and to help people get on the fediverse on their retro computers, I have setup a Brutaldon instance :D Brutaldon is a wonderful Mastadon client that is sparse and viewable using any older browser that supports CSS (ie; netsurf, older firefox). HTTP and HTTPS is available as well. Works well on my SGI Octane2 as you can see, but it should work on any platform with a decent browser. Netscape support forthcoming.
Well, git 'em fixed!
Yup. We ported netsurf to IRIX a while ago which is a nice little browser that does SSL.
It's pretty skippy for a 20 year old machine. It's an octane 2 with a 400 Mhz processor.
AHAHA. Gotta have the digital blasphemy background for the late 90s vibe!
IRIX of course :)
NetSurf we ported it to IRIX a while ago :D
Thanks! :D
I turned my Octane into a bad ass workstation for cruising the deep web :D
Yes and no. It depends on what your aim is. I LOVE Nix and it runs like a beast on my ZBook. But I'm after reproducible environments I can just blast around on all over the place without a heavy imagining solution. Works great for that.
Does it take some time to setup as a daily driver? Yes. But no more than Arch. But the thing with Nix is if you already have a robust config, it takes less time than Arch to go from zero to stomping out code.
Ubuntu is a great generic distro. But I find Nix gives me oomph. As with everything in this ecosphere...use what works for YOU! ๐