As well as the windows machines, I have Linux Lite installed on a Dell Latitude E6400 from about 2008. Easy installation, the only manual intervention was finding the WiFi driver.
Youtube works just fine. Or at least as well as YT ever works on anything. On Tue, 8 Sep 2020 at 07:07, Lee Hart via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > > evln via EV wrote: > > There are ways around not having a strong internet connecion > > to view youtube videos. > > > > You could use > > https://x2convert.com > > to convert the streaming video's audio to a .mp3 file you could > > download and listen to. > > > > If I remember correctly, years ago, Lee held bragging-rights to > > having his internet access via an old 486 pc on outdated operating > > system and outdated browsers. > > Yep; guilty as charged. :-) All I had was dial-up, and my old Prodigy > email program was still pretty fast because it didn't load any of the > bloat. But it's long-gone. Any poor soul that tries to use dial-up on > the modern internet is doomed! > > > I would have hoped by now that situation had changed when more up-to-date > > PCs... > > The PC itself isn't so much the problem. My current PC is an HP 6000 > Pro, which isn't all that old. The problem is that I have a DSL line, > which averages 100-200k b/sec. Fine for email, slow for bloated web > pages, and terrible for video. > > Also, I hate Windows, and so am using linux. For whatever reason, > Youtube refuses to work with any of my linux browsers. The error > messages say it needs HTML5; but my browsers work fine with HTML5 files > from any other source. > > > Like Peppermnt > > https://www.google.com/search?q=peppermint+linux > > or linux mint (or others) > > https://www.google.com/search?q=linux+mint > > I'm running Puppy linux. I've tried a few others, but got lost in > "configuration hell". They might be fine for a linux expert, but I'm a > rank amateur. > > > I had to upgrade to a new android 9 smartphone... > > To show what a luddite I am, I don't *have* a smartphone! For one thing, > the text is too hard to read for my tired old eyes. For another, my fat > old fingers can't type on the tiny keyboards. I've tried a tablet, but > even that's too small. (I'm reading this on a 17" monitor set to 1024x768). > > Also I don't have cable, and don't watch TV, and don't play video games. > And no facebook, no twitter... I don't use *any* social media at all. > > > Perhaps if Lee had one of these with a weeks worth of > > video url links stored on it, when he goes out to do his > > weekly shopping, he could stop off at a wifi site parking > > lot and (legally) mooch some free internet to stream & > > watch videos like everyone else? > > Folks must think I lead a life of desperation without all the modern > (in)convenieces of being totally addicted to a smartphone and endlessly > immersed in the online world. Quite the contrary; I enjoy the real world > a lot more than the online world! I have real friends that I actually > see in person, and real hobbies where I build stuff that has nothing to > do with computers. > > The more time I spend online, the LESS I get done! > > Lee Hart > > -- > A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is > nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. > -- Antoine de Saint Exupery > -- > Lee Hart, 814 8th Ave N, Sartell MN 56377, www.sunrise-ev.com > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html > INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > -- Paul Compton www.morini-mania.co.uk www.paulcompton.co.uk (YouTube channel) _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
