Probably the slowest I’ve used was a 25 MHz(?) sparcstation 1, 500 MB drive, 16 MB RAM. Or some 90’s arm box. Netwinder? iPAQ?
It’s kind of terrible how huge even tiny distributions are these days. But these days there’s cheap low power draw hardware and big storage available that works great and that’s nice. I don’t miss the bad old times.
I think that was about eighth grade biology when I was in school along with other body chemistry basics. Very weird article.
Brave is a series scam company.
That’s almost always false unless the hardware is faster and thus more power hungry and hot than your CPU. That’s rarely true. Some fpga accelerator? Maybe. GPU/TPU? Sure. Your hard drive? Not a chance that it would have even remotely competitive processor.
The point of hardware acceleration is usually that your CPU doesn’t need to do a task so there’s less CPU load and it can spend that time running applications or respond faster.
There was definitely an illusion.
I’ve never heard of a library card costing anything. But I guess I’m not really surprised if that happens somewhere.
Reminds me of https://wiki.lspace.org/Leonard_of_Quirm