|| Phlog 27 - Old Computer Challenge 2024! || || || || || Post #0 (Preliminary) || Work ThinkPad || || Kitchen Table || HTTP Link to Solene's Post: https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2024-06-24-old-computer-challenge-v4-announce.html Solene has announced the 2024 Old Computer Challenge: Olympics Edition This has been the "true" start to summer the past few years. It's such and enjoyable activity to get a machine up and running as a daily driver - away from touch screens, overly complex resource intensive GUIs and away from the non-stop barrage of vendors threatening to add A.I. to every single facet of IT life... Loose Goals for this year: +Determine which hardware to use & what to run? +Incorporate Olympic terminology and puns (Please feel free to comment and roast here & Mastodon) +Get the basics working on as-of-yet-to-be-determined hardware +Calendar +Music +Lynx/Browsing +Mutt/Mail +SSH +SDF/Gopher +Mastodon(?) +Give more friends & coworkers a heads up about the Old Computer Challenge this year so they can take part! +Check-in and Post from more outdoor spots (if possible?) +New and obscure ways of connecting (aside from wifi/Ethernet)