Very interesting, thanks!

Browser choice is probably going to make just as much difference as distro choice. Modern browsers kinda need at least 1 GB to be usable, ideally more. Depends what you do with it of course.

Try Pale Moon, Falkon and Konqueror.

I no longer care if the blackouts change reddit or not. Viva la fediverse!

80% of the time, compiling something from source is just a matter of downloading the code, opening a terminal and changing to the directory containing the source and running these commands:

./configure
make
make install

It’s the same 3 commands, 80% of the time.

Installing the prerequisites can be tricky, if the docs are lacking.

Try this https://userstyles.world/style/10301/better-lemmy

Here’s another user style https://userstyles.world/style/10301/better-lemmy.

It widens the display, changes bright green buttons to blue ones and improves the indentation of replies.

Don’t forget to buy thermal paste!