Even a dual core pentium is a supercomputer by 80s standards, that's THE way to look at it

• insert one(1) hdd and use as a backup target (you should have multiple, so it doesn't matter if this one fails eventually)
• fuck the web, embrace the internet: FTP, SMTP, NNTP, IRC and so on, all work without requiring many resources
• you can host a mail server with ipv6 right from your living room. Pro tip: sending mail is difficult, but receiving mails on mythrowaway@homeserver.funny doesn't require any precautions)
• set up FTP (with explicit encryption, so FTPES) and never need a cloud drive service again)
• run several screen sessions with IRC (irssi), torrent (rtorrent seeding Linux .isos)
• register for one or more pubnix servers (tildeverse.org), run a script with cron that checks for interesting new stuff on them, show in your MOTD which servers have updates so you don't have to check them manually
• install newsboat and check all your RSS feeds
• install a newsreader and help revive USENET with a free account from literally anywhere
  
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i feel like nntp is more centralized than http can ever be because you have to >register your account with a >provider in order to even begin using the fucking thing to begin with afaik

I like the list, can you post more ideas?

tell me more about tildeverse why hasn't there been much activity with it since 23?

bump for interests, please respond with more ideas anons

is it worth using smb if i'm too lazy to setup ftpes

Anything is better than dealing with HTTP.

fair enough, i already have smb setup

I've been dabbling with gopher and Gemini last months, I think I'll transfer my websites to there and just ditch HTTP for once, the internet was not meant to be a surveillance protocol

please respond with more ideas anons

if you dislike HTTP you probably don't understand it (not even a little bit), read RFC 9110 (and maybe also RFC 9112)