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@kzimmermann@fosstodon.orgI may be late to the party, but here it is: my #OldComputerChallenge experience
https://kzimmermann.0x.no/articles/2024_old_computer_challenge.html
It felt good to do it again since my last one in 2021. I tried to do something a little different this time and it was surprisingly pleasant. I have an optimistic view that this old computer will survive a lot more years!
57 on my #100DaysToOffload challenge as well
Hey @dillo, you guys played a significant part in my experience with #occ2024 last week. The 3.1.0 version available in #Alpine was awesome: fast and light as always!
Just one comment? Perhaps the maximum caching of images should be limited. I know it's meant to make sites load faster, but after browsing a lot of sites with heavy images (thanks web bloat), the toll taken on RAM is huge. Perhaps make the cache limit an option in dillorc? The link above this toot has more details.
@kzimmermann very nice post :-)
I agree on the cache issue, I'm surprised people have not complained earlier.
I opened a new issue: https://github.com/dillo-browser/dillo/issues/231
@dillo thanks :) and I'm glad I could contribute something for the development! I sometimes think I blog too much but code too little. Dillo had been a dear program to me for so long, I'm so happy to help it!
@kzimmermann if you want to play with it, I really recommend you try to write to some plugin, as they are really easy to get started and you can code in any language.
Here is an example in 77 lines of bash to display man pages as HTML pages:
https://github.com/dillo-browser/dillo-plugin-man/blob/master/man.filter.dpi
Here are more: https://dillo-browser.github.io/#plugins
@kzimmermann
Great article, I enjoyed it a lot! The conclusion is the same as everywhere: Everything works no problem, until you open Firefox and try to open pretty much any website, then everything turns to sh** 
@82mhz thank you, glad you liked the post!
The sad thing for me is that, besides the omnipresent bloat of the modern web nowadays, even Firefox itself has become quite huge (didn't even open in a busy system with 700MB RAM!). In this light. lightweight web browsers are a much-needed breath of fresh air, though. I've really enjoyed doing this challenge, and will probably revisit it again "unofficially" sometime later this year :)
@kzimmermann
Maybe we need an unofficial part 2 in the winter ;)