ok, maybe I’m getting old
But I think over and over that less is more
I’ve got a barebone EOS with SWAY starting with around 450kb of memory used
but what could I remove yet?
I use it just for internet, firefox and chrome
firefox and chrome
I know, I could do better
450 kb! must be tight on ram, i’ve seen microcontrollers with more
Get rid of the graphical session, and stick to TTY. You can use a text-based browser, like Lynx and wget to download stuff.
nAh, inTernEt and tTy arE bLoAteD sofTwaRe, run the machine headless and connect with a serial wire to a teletype and get hacking with ed
Sure, that’s even better, but the OP said he wanted to use it for browsing the internet.
ok, maybe too extreme for me
You could still remove the Internet … that’s all bloat …
… an old saying about “less” and “more”, two text page viewing tools: “Less is more than more; More is less than less!”
I’m not sure what is said about “most”!
(Please return to your regularly scheduled programming now).