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On 2025-06-03, LIT <zbigniew2011@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Your laptop with GNU/Linux/OpenBSD would be perfectly fine
>> for tons of tasks:
>
>  "For tons of tasks" - sure, but not for
> browsing the WWW in the state it's today.
> About ten years ago I had to give up using
> my old Athlon 3200+ machine used for the
> "surfing", because it turned out, that after
> next "upgrade" in my bank I wasn't able to
> operate my bank account (and still more and
> more websites became incredibly slow, when
> browsing their contents). Yes, everyone
> prefer to push the burden on your machine
> by using that JS (that should be banned),
> instead making their server doing that by
> using PHP, for example.
>
>  I used to use Lynx for browsing the
> Web, to read news etc. as long, as it was
> still possible - to not even glance at all
> that shiny fluff, to avoid pop-up windows
> etc. - but that time is over since almost
> 20 years ago today. Try to use Lynx today
> with any site. Maybe 5-10% of them can be
> browsed such way.
>
> --

- Lynx

Links it's better, and far more with the PSP
or the Opera Mini user agent. 

Also, I use both the DIllectory and Gopher/Gemini
sites.