I have an old ThinkPad T42 coming my way. I plan to use it alongside my daily driver mainly for reading, emacs, and retro gaming. I will be dual booting a lightweight flavour of Linux (TBD) and Windows 98 on it.
However, I am a bit concerned about its ability to handle today’s internet, with all of its heavy websites.
I would love to hear from those of you who are still using old ThinkPads (or other vintage laptops) in 2024. How do you make it work? Do you use lightweight browsers, specific configurations, or lightweight websites to get around the limitations of older hardware?
Are there any specific tips or tricks you can share for getting the most out of an old ThinkPad on the modern web?
Looking forward to hearing about your experiences!
Neat, how do you manage lemmy? Any particular client you use?
lemmy works fine as is in a browser and sdf also hosts the ‘old’ variant, which works without js (fairly usable in text browsers too)
https://old.lemmy.sdf.org
Never looked into any clients, I’m afraid.
Oh neat, TIL about old.lemmy.sdf.org. That’s great!