alt Hacker NewsDatapoint: During the pandemic, I had to use an old 2004 Powerbook G4 12" (256 MB RAM, OS X Leopard). Everything sort of worked and was even reasonably snappy. But open one website, and the machine went down. Unusable. Even if, indeed, I just wanted to read or look up a few kB of text. So painful.
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deepsun • yesterday at 4:45 PM
If only there was browser-as-a-service. That would load the pages over it's fast connection and show them to you.
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One tool I've found useful in low-power/low-bandwidth situations is the Lynx web browser [1]. Used to be installed by default in most Linux distributions but I think that's probably not the case anymore. Wikipedia says its also available on OSX and Windows.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)