If you're happy with OpenBSD, probably any computer is good enough.
reddit / BSD

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celibidaque · 2023-02-06 17:50

“How much computing power do I really need on a day to day basis?”

As much computing power needed to (properly) to run Firefox.

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swingthebodyelectric · 2023-02-06 19:06

Sad but true.

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gumnos · 2023-02-06 19:25

sadly, Firefox (and chromium) don't run on macppc, regardless of how
much RAM, disk-space, or how fast your CPU (modulo the abomination of
emulating x86 on PPC and then attempting to run FF/Chromium in that
emulation)

But for non-web-based tasks, PPC hardware is quite capable for most of
what I do.

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istarian · 2023-02-07 19:54

You can get quite a lot done without a web browser or the internet,
even if most of us have grown quite accustomed to always-online
instant acess.

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ketaminekid · 2023-02-08 23:47

I’ve had a sun ipc (25mhz sparc) running openbsd chugging away in my
my parents basement doing nothing but happily collecting uptime for
the better part of 20 years.

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Newgeneration2i · 2023-02-17 07:34

Has it ever been used for anything?

I have an ipc and I’m looking to do something with it lol

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ketaminekid · 2023-02-18 21:29

For a little while it was running tinyhttpd and serving up a picture
of itself with some information about sun Ipc but it hasn’t been
internet facing in a decade or more

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Newgeneration2i · 2023-02-18 22:45

Expose it to the internet, I wanna visit it :P

I’ll setup my ipc as a webserver too and we can be the only two people
in the world running one

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gplusplus314 · 2023-02-21 05:00

PPC is just *cool*, too. I wish it was more socially acceptable to
just do something because it’s interesting, even if it’s not
objectively better.

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anarchysoft · 2023-03-05 09:31

gemini protocol