The biggest impact would be to max out the memory. That will not help with browsers like Firefox, but will help with other items.

Plus there is a whole world out there that many people ignore or do not know about, USENET and IRC. Accessing those will work with just about any Thinkpad, no matter how old. Plus there is toot for Mastodon (I need to get that working), but not sure if there is a text utility to access lemmy

I have a Thinkpad which is a bit newer then yours (R51e) with OpenBSD on it. I get by quite well with dillo, links (need to try links2), mutt, tin (USENET) and irssi (IRC). All I did is maxed out memory to 2G. But, I never do banking on the Internet. All I do is need to do is get my pdf bank statement once a month which I use a newer Thinkpad for.

I had a hard time getting into it too, but I got to it. So I will paste it in.

From: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/24552643 via https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/u/joes

The number of participants stayed the same. There were 2722 more tournament games than last year, the proportion of all games played went up 6.6%. 9 fewer people ascended 13 fewer games, with a higher ratio of 2.9 asc/player. There was only 1 ascension in Fourk, Dyna and 1.3d. 81% of games were scummed, 58% of all scums that month, basically split 2:1 between 31PwnMoat (again) and hecatonheir (last year it was dedal). Medusa was killed 87 more times, again mostly by Valkyries, but also dwarven Anachrononauts. 3.7 was played even more, dnh gained 7 ranks (+3.9%p), Un lost 4th place to HackEM (-4.9%p), Splice stayed in 3rd place, Spork/Fourk were played least, but 1.3d shot up 4 ranks from last place. On the australian hardfought server 8x more games were played.

And a comment from https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/u/joes

Clan DeepCavernGoobs managed to break all conducts in 19 games. malor ascended 11 variants; Merlek killed Medusa 9 times, only ascended 4, but got a trophy in all 21 variants. Only Umbire ascended 1.3d (uncrowned). jonosmalls and smurphy ascended Unnethack (jono even without Elbereth [also in xnh], killing all Riders and Baalzebub). Splice: finitelycraig got the Bell, stoicjin the Luckstone. Spork: Muad got the Bell, bleeko entered Gehennom. Grunt: Merlek killed Medusa and got the Luckstone, hothraxxa finished Sokoban. hothraxxa ascended NH4 without killing Vlad and the Quest nemesis. Fourk: recuerdo ascended, fitsf killed Croesus. FIQ: oh6 escaped in celestial disgrace, Merlek splatted on the Planes, Umbire killed Rodney. hothraxxa ascended DynaHack, bleeko reached Gehennom. fitsf and malor ascended SLASH’EM, ocnda escaped in disgrace. disperse and malor ascended SlashTHEM. Dictyostelium entered the Quest in HackEM. anselmus and malor ascended AceHack, ais523 and recuerdo splatted on the Planes. Noisytoot killed Demogorgon in nndnh.

Nothing except for the limited size. I believe even today, nothing exists today for temp storage that have the convenience of diskettes.

USB Flash Drives comes close, but cheaper versions can in rare cases have firmware "virises". On a diskette, just do a format and all issues gone. Also I never even thought twice about mailing a file on a diskette expecting to never see that diskette again. Flash Drives, I still would like to get it back after mailing it out :)

I guess that is what you get when you cut funding to the CDC.

I remember working in a warehouse that stored many ICs when I was very young. IIRC, Zilog packaging was quite good. Some other brands packages would crack or open up if nor handled with "kid gloves". This brings back memories,

First the current Post Master General needs to go. He cancelled an order of electric vehicles and reordered them as fossil fuel. Biden forced him to undo that IIRC. These are vehicles that are used in Cities to pickup mail and for mail carriers to use. At most they do 100 miles per day, and that is an over estimate.

But the USPS would not have to do that plan if the GOP did not cut there funding to the point were the stopped making a profit using creative accounting 20+ years ago. So Tulsa and Fayetteville, you get what you pay for :)

I saw this a while ago, very nice. What was the end result, was it upgraded to a newer NetBSD ?

I decided to move to gemini on SDF. Data is far easier to maintain and you can use any editor to add/change files.

In case you do not know what I am referring to:

https://wiki.sdf.org/doku.php?id=gemini_site_setup_and_hosting_features

I really did not like how Kes (Jennifer Lien) was written out so they could have a Borg Character. Nothing against Jeri Ryan, but the idea of Kes type Alien was intriguing. Then when they brought her back as a god like character even made the concept for Kes worse.

The other thing missed is laptops manufactured within the past 10 years will meet most people's needs, so no need to purchase new if there is no hardware issues.

And I wish they mentioned the TPM2 requirement Microsoft is forcing on people, that could generate a lot of ewaste.

Disabling nouveau did not fix the issue, but was a good idea, thanks.

Maybe time for another thread but I am still researching a bit, but the W541 has this for Video:

• Device-1: Intel 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel
• Device-2: NVIDIA GK107GLM [Quadro K1100M],

I think per: https://man.netbsd.org/nouveau.4 that should be supported. If I cannot find any more info I may create a PR for 10-BETA.

Right now, 10.0 BETA on my spare T420 Laptop. I have 7.02 on an old AMD333 system and trying to get 9.3 on it. It is hard going because there what I believe a motherboard issue with the CDROM Drive. And SDF :)

I hope to use it on my main system, a W541 Thinkpad. It works, but the Nvidia GPU (it as duel GPU) heats up a lot. I am not sure how to even diagnose this, but as the BETA persists I will keep checking to see if the issue stops. The W541 does not allow one to disable Nvidia :(