Day 7 of the 2024 Old Computer Challenge
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Today I hung out with a friend playing Atari games, so I didn't
have time for much computing; however, I didn't use a newer
computer so I didn't break any rules (and the Atari 7800 probably
counts as old enough for the challenge anyway).

I'm going to append my forum post for my retrospective of the
challenge here:

> My experience so far has been mixed. It's been nice to use this
laptop's fantastic keyboard instead of my smartphone's touch
keyboard for some stuff. It's also been nice to read books instead
of watching YT. It's been nice in some ways to take things slowly,
though the enforced slowness of a dodgy connection is just
annoying. The boredom on the train has been annoying: I should make
an exception for ebooks. Lack of software that works on little RAM
has also been an issue (and I didn't expect to receive images in
emails too big for flpicsee to cope with). I'm pleased with how
quickly I got the scripts for Xidel working, but I haven't read as
many of the feeds as I was expecting to. I guess, in a terminal,
they all end up looking the same, somehow?

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http://bb.deadnet.se/viewtopic.php?p=500&sid=88706a2652a1ce4d1b25f93dcb2bafe6
Source: the "Outcomes" thread on the Old Computer Challenge forum.

At some point, I still need to publish my scripts for the Mastodon
API...

Anyway, this is day 7, so it's back to modern computers tomorrow!

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