On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 12:38 AM, Walter Dnes <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm running a Core2-duo desktop from 2008 with 3 gigs of ram. I want > to run it into the ground, not throw it away while it's still > functional.
Unfortunately this isn't a viable strategy because typically you will, in a few months, if not a single month, spend more in electricity costs than you would purchasing a new single board computer. > With Gentoo optimization, pluse using ICEWM, it's generally > snappy. But there are a few web pages that throw the kitchen sink of > 3rd-pary adservers+trackers. 178 unique servers for one web page will > peg the load from the web browser to 150% of 1 cpu core. On a 2-core > machine, that is bad. The browser is unresponsive for a few seconds at > a time. > > I'm building up a rather large hosts file, but the adservers have a > gazillion subnames for each domain, in a deliberate attempt to bypass > hosts files. It would be more effective block entire domains. Is there > a lightweight DNS server, or some iptables trick, or whatever, that'll > block specified domains? > Your single board computer of choice should be able to handle this. If you need routing capability you are better off building a computer from scratch. There's mini-ITX boards available with soldered-on processors that are probably comparable to your system from 2008, but they use far less electricity. You could also buy a router and replace the firmware with OpenWRT. Most have enough space for some pretty involved service provisioning. R0b0t1.
