It's a source of delight and frustration how much computational capability everyone has now, and how much of it goes to waste.

Planning out a household budget; keeping a running grocery list; planning a garden planting schedule; tracking health data; reading and writing email; maintaining a calendar of event reminders; managing a contact list of the addresses of friends and family; these things need so little processing power and storage that it's almost comical. A Pi Zero could suffice.

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@gnomon A Mac Classic with 1MB or RAM, no FPU, processor clocked under 7MHz, and a 20MB external hard drive (SCSI) ran Microsoft Word 5.1a (the best version of Word) quite comfortably.

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@neal right?? I'm doing almost all of my "serious" work under emacs these days, a not-insignificant amount of it under termux on my phone. My aggregate power consumption statistics show that even the *keepalive background tasks* are obliterating the fraction of the power budget I'm spending on the things I actually care about!

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