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Min Browser.

I have two netbooks with Atom processors, 2 GB RAM and one of them has an HDD instead of an SSD. I tried plenty of graphical browsers and Min was the best by far. Neither Firefox, Chromium, Falkon, Midori or GNOME Web could work at least partially smoothly in those machines. Min was not a panacea, but it was definitely more usable.

I think the last time was in 2009. I still have it, and I often say “I’m gonna buy you new batteries, pal”, but I always forget to do so.

I would say BearBlog. A no frills, no bullshit blog hosting platform. It has many interesting people, and you can follow its “trending” feed via RSS.

Cat bellies and old books. Oh, and coffee.

Definitely Unsolved Mysteries (the original one). And honorable mention to Rescue 911.

Me too. It’s the only piece of software that I truly miss. There’s not a single alternative in the Linux ecosystem that compares to it.

I’m a biologist, so all of them. Yes, even cockroaches (they’re so cute when eating cookies ❤️), parasites like horsehair worms and Demodex folliculorum, spiders (all of them!), mosquitoes and centipedes.

Three steps:

1. If you can afford it, upgrade to a SSD.
2. Install Linux Mint XFCE or Fedora XFCE.
3. Use Min Browser. In my tests, with a netbook with an Atom processor and 2GB RAM, it’s infinitely faster than Firefox or any other Chromium.

Profit.

Obsidian. I can write notes, write papers, organize my time and ideas, and connect them with each other. I can make my workflow as simple or complex as I want. And the fact that every note is just a markdown file makes it even better: it’s a guarantee that I’ll never be locked in a proprietary ecosystem.

Books, cats, coffee and drawing/painting. I could also say “working”, as my job is reading, learning and being amazed (I’m a biologist).

The Fifth Element. And I hope it stays tat way.