I've been testing out Lynx, the text based browser. I've heard that it's one of the oldest browsers, and certainly the oldest still maintained I think (you can correct me on this if I talk bullshit outta my ass lmao).
It's quite chill. So lightweight. And man oh man, is it refreshing to see websites in pure text. It feels so light, floaty, pure. Just information distilled to its purest form. My own website works and looks quite good with it too! If you have Lynx, try it out. It should look good :)
I've noted that many websites though don't work on it, or are filled with so much junk, it's annoying to navigate. But then you get to the content, and you realize, most sites are like tens of thousands of characters for like a few hundreds characters of actual content. It's funny and sad.
Other than that, I've done quite a few things regarding computers since the last update. I'll list them briefly here, and I might make more dedicated posts about them later.
Oh wow, they're just as good, if not better, than I remember them being. There's nothing quite like sitting in the glow of a CRT, when most of the screen is black, but there is some light moving on it. The afterglow of the trails... the smoothness of it all... How wonderfully pixel art doesn't look like a seizure when it's moving...
It's a lower end model, but even a low end CRT whoops the ass of all LCDs in everything except sharpness and power consumption. I used to have a high end CRT back in the day... But they've gotten expensive now that everyone who got rid of them in the 2000s and 2010s already did, and people who want them, REALLY want them, and people who sell them know that, so... It was only 50€. It's got its quirks, but it's managable.
Got yet another PC. For 30 or 35€, I forgot which. It's a system with an AMD A10-6700 APU. I was originally gonna use as a test machine for various FLOSS OS's, things like Arch, the BSDs, and Haiku. Haiku didn't work on it <.< ... and I didn't have as much time or interest, once I discovered another purpose for it, as a dedicated media center and PS1 / N64 emulation PC connected to my TV. There it sits lol.
My most underpowered laptop, the HP 655, I installed Debian on, quite recently in fact. It was getting so damn annoying and Win 8.1 is EOL anyway, so why not. It's not like I'm gonna play games on it, the thing can barely run Worms Armageddon, and the only reason to run Windows versions higher than 7 is to be a video game bootloader, yea I said it, we all know it's true :DD Anyway, I went with MATE DE on it - I did test various distros and DEs, but I found that Debian with MATE gave the best experience out of the box, with the lowest CPU usage by far, and all the brightness and volume keys just work and don't take two thousand presses to get from one end of the brightness scale to another (looking at YOU, LXQT... obiwan-youwerethechosenone.jpeg.gif.exe)
I bought a bunch of PATA HDDs. Got 7 for 30€, ALL of them tested and working, various sizes from 1 GB to I think 320 GB. With that, I decide to put two of my oldest PCs in working condition again. Yes, now my terrible secret is revealed: I got even more systems than I listed lol.
Anyway, the systems are a Pentium 166 PC with 3DFX Voodoo 2 and a Creative Awe 64, I put Windows 98 SE on that. The price of that system was ZERO EUROS actually, I got it from my brother back in the mid 2000s who got it for free from some office or whatnot who were getting rid of old stock. The Voodoo 2 card I bought for THREE EUROS back in the mid 2000s too from a local computer recycling bin LMAO, take that eBay. I don't remember where I got the AWE card from though...? Maybe interdimensional demonic rituals or something..
It's great to compose MIDI music on though, as the AWE 64 has an interesting MIDI style, with an unique internal soundfont and an OPL3 FM synthesis emulation known as CQM... it's all very intriguing and fun to mess around with :)
The other system is an AMD Athlon 1000 based one, with ATi Radeon 9600 Pro and some variant of Creative Sound Blaster PCI card, I forget which... I put two HDDs in it so I can dual boot Win 98 SE and Win XP, Win XP is good because I got one of my USB sticks working on it... Don't have to burn CDs and DVDs all the damn time hehe. Win 98 SE offers lighter overhead though in games that work on it, as the PC only has 256 MB of RAM.
That system also cost zero euros too as I got it as a present from my dad back in 2001, has been with me since.
Yes I have been using floppy disks to move data between the two machines, and I love it. The sound of floppy disks and that 1 GB Quantum Fireball HDD is... Well, it's even better ASMR than golden age AVGN (if you know, you know.)
Anyway I might be forgetting something but at least there's somewhat of an update. I also realized that I'm too lazy to be coding hyperlinks all the time for everything as I write the html by hand with no assists or automation tools, and it's annoying to do them and I DUN WANNA OKAY?! It's MUH website and I do WHAT I WANT >:)))
So I guess I'll be doing less hyperlinks and focusing more on the writing. You can search for the things I talk about by yourself, right? I do believe in you, senpai, I really do.
Peace and chills. Or peaches and grills, depending on the season and internal preferences.
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