If you're happy with OpenBSD, probably any computer is good enough

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  • dilloNG

    Dillo ported from Mercurial for concept testing

  • The blog's author might like this dillo fork. It needs autoconf, automake, gmake, mbedtls and ftlk.

    https://github.com/w00fpack/dilloNG

    Mpv it's recommended, at it has a context menu to play videos with it and the

  • InterWebPPC

    Discontinued Mozilla for Power Macintosh.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • leopard.sh

    Package managers for PowerPC Macs running OS X Leopard (10.5) and Tiger (10.4), written in Bash 😱

  • > the iMac wasn't really useful in a modern or a retro sense

    I've been trying to fight that a bit myself: https://github.com/cellularmitosis/leopard.sh

  • carbonyl

    Chromium running inside your terminal

  • Carbonyl runs pretty well (YouTube videos / WASM powered apps like figma et al) https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl

  • browservice

    Browservice: Browse the modern web on historical browsers

  • "browservice" will render web pages server-side and then deliver them to your browser as an image with simple javascript.

    It works in virtually all "old" browsers and can be very useful for older computers.

    https://github.com/ttalvitie/browservice

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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