solon_kitten | Working with MacOS Snow Leopard in 2024

I love that I can do pretty much everything I want with an older laptop and Mac 10.6.8 right now.

Writing blog posts? Dreamwidth still works with older Chrome, SeaMonkey, ArcticFox, and many other browsers.
Listening to music? iTunes works fine, and there are *tons* of IceCast servers for when I want to listen to music not on my system.
YouTube? I subscribe to the RSS feeds of channels I wanna follow in Vienna, and use Invidious or yt-dlp to watch the videos.
Streams? streamlink works just fine with everything.
Gaming? DOSBox (via Boxer), or Wine (via WineBottler), or VMs (via Parallels Desktop 7) handle that need.
Backups? I've got an AirPort Time Capsule for local backups, and I'm running a fake iDisk (WebDAV) and git on a remote server for distant backups.
Social media? brutaldon works perfectly fine for the Fediverse, and Unison or slrn works for Usenet (along with Thunderbird and SeaMonkey).
Email? The default Mail.app still works, and there's always Thunderbird or SeaMonkey Mail.
Online chat? I like XMPP and IRC, which are handled by Adium and Limechat respectively. bitlbee-discord is an option for discord text chat as well, though not sure for how much longer.
Writing? I have iWork '09, Scrivener, and BBEdit.

It's amazing just how much you can do with retro/vintage systems now, so long as you know the limits. I don't use Google Suite, Google Drive, OneDrive, or a lot of other online-only webapps, so your usecase might be different. But for me, I'm happy with what I've got.