I have this 11 year old oddly resistant Pentium laptop and I’m thinking of turning it into a reading/light-programming tool. It used to run great back in the day but modern software has gotten so bloated that it can barely run GNOME with Firefox, so I was thinking of sticking to command line only. Is there anything specific I should look into?
In specific I mainly only want to be able to download and read mdbooks in the terminal, probably using archlinux32 as the OS (or maybe LFS?). Captcha abuse and all that javascript already ruined browsing with Lynx so I have little hopes of actually browsing the web. I also intend to get a new battery as it only lasts 1-2 hours nowadays. Any other 32bit/tty-only customisation guides are also welcome.
Oh didn’t know about overflow online. That’s really nifty. On a random note, would be neat to see if you could train a LoRA with this data for one of the open source language models and use it as a private chatgpt style helper. It’d be pretty cool if you could just ask questions using natural language and it could spit out a relevant SO answer tailored to the situation.