What kind of security risk are you at running a 486? You can barely handle the TLS handshake. Modern malware would just brick your system the same way any other modern software would.
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djsaskdja@reddthat.com 1 month agoYou can, but it’s a bad idea. Pretty major security risk.
TehPers@beehaw.org 1 month ago
djsaskdja@reddthat.com 1 month ago
I was speaking in general. Everyone’s risk tolerance is different. Offline is better if you can.
TehPers@beehaw.org 1 month ago
My point was more along the lines of online being impractical. Sure, you can still connect to servers running old software (in which case kernel updates aren’t useful to you anyway), but anything with modern security or software is going to just not run at all on it, whether because the software is too heavy for the processor or because it simply was not compiled for it (and cannot be).
Point is, I think we both agree that the only reasonable usecase for these processors is offline or on a separate network (LAN/tunneled/etc).
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Is it?
Just use Linux 6.12 with LTS until 2029 and Super LTS until 2036.
djsaskdja@reddthat.com 1 month ago
Yeah I meant after the support window ends.
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 1 month ago
What are you running on a 486 these days that needs to be online? A pihole? Like, even if this is a CNC controller or vinyl cutter (if you need a dongle to run your output, this is a valid concern; not a lot of parallel ports hanging out on mobos these days), the internet is not required.
djsaskdja@reddthat.com 1 month ago
We agree completely. Offline is better.