Showing my age here, but my similar story was in #warezart on ethernet (IRC). We had a pretty tight group of regulars. I spent nearly every day there for over 5 years starting in 1995.

It was unusual then that we were from all over. We had a mod in New Zealand, some euros, a bunch of americans from all over and a handful of canadians. But hanging out like we were in each other’s living rooms.

A bunch of us actually met up in person at the Siggraph trade show once and even made matching tshirts. lol.

except for that one guy and his son

Or be even more productive and go…

“STAND UP AND GET OFF THE FUCKIN RAIL AND GO LIVE YOUR LIFE!!!”

Do you have a large swap? Seems like that should keep it from completely freezing and just result in extreme slowing.

lol at the retro gaming. ;]

Looks good… but I think the real question is what you can run with only 1 gig of ram. Have you tried different web browsers to see if you can get a common modern web site to work? I think you’d have to use adblock heavily in order to keep the usage down. Even if you never use more than one tab. But curious about what your results have been?