Tech Nerd Ramblings

[notabitail]

OK, well, web browsing on this PC is significantly faster than the Northwood Pentium 4. Maybe it's a Linux thing, I don't know. I did run Linux on the Northwood but it has a NVIDIA card that Linux hates. This Prescott Pentium 4 one has Intel-grated graphics.

I am writing this post from Linux Mint 22 with XFCE, 64 bit mode, in Firefox, running decently. uBlock Origin and h264ify are the only addons I have on here. I was able to watch 480p video playback on a 1280x1024 monitor without fullscreen. If you fullscreen it, it slows down, though I have chalked that up to a slow GPU.

Simply put, YES, you CAN use a Prescott-based Pentium 4 with Hyperthreading and 64-bit support with a more lightweight Linux Mint, and you can browse the web, but as to it being practical, that is debatable.

I've also only got 3GB of RAM, an improvement over the 1.5GB the Northwood machine has.

 

[notabitail]

Great. I'm going to have to deal with Home Assistant now. My Supervised install will be discontinued in 6 months, so now I'm going to have to find a way to run their OS without getting rid of my current OS. A virtual machine could work, but I doubt it'd be good on a processor with only two cores and two threads. I'm probably going to have to see about finding a more reliable power supply for the other i3 HP. It has a much better CPU and I have a old CPU that is a i5 that should work in it.

 

[azurbanclucker]

I need to either rebuild the fileserver or just get a NAS set up. I need more IOPS

And I need to grab an NVME and install w11 on it to make sure my stuff all migrates cleanly from 10.

And I need to get rid of this 40 inch tv as a monitor. as cool as it is, the eye strain is really bad for me.

fun weekend, I guess.

Well, I replaced the big monitor. We will see how well it works. The replacement is terrible, so prolly going to pick up a nice 32" 1440 120hz panel when I get paid. I'll suffer a week.