Old computer challenge

You may have heard of the
[old computer challenge](https://sizeof.cat/post/old-computer-challenge-2024/).
It is an experiment to limit yourself to (severely) restricted computer resources
for one week.

Because I don't have an old computer at my disposal, I decided to limit myself
at home to a Raspberry Pi 4 for one week. Normally I use a mid-end gaming PC even for
webbrowing or listening to music, which feels like a waste of resources/energy.
The raspberry pi is running 24/7 anyway because it does DNS and NFS, therefore
it felt like a good opportunity.

After two days, I noticed:

- "Normal" webbrowsing is almost impossible; modern websites are way too heavy.
- The temptation to play Games etc. is much less, because the PC is not turned on (yet).
  - The raspberry pi is already there, I just need to turn on the monitor.
- The limited performance "forces" me to do other things, e.g. sorting my book notes.
- It seems more quiet. There is less noise coming from applications like the Signal messenger.
  - There is no official Signal build available for ARM.

However, at the end of day 2 I noticed that I could not use my usual Emacs workflow,
because the Raspberry was actually still running Debian Buster. After I upgraded it,
the graphical desktop stopped working - for whatever reason.

I guess I will spend day 3 figuring out what is going on.

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