So basically another Carrington Event. Which is actually not impossible, and nobody knows what would happen if a geomagnetic storm of that size would occur today.

Is your friend by any chance a beefaloo?

It’s also very nice to have a computer which you can just take with you and play games with friends at their place or connect to the television and just play games (or other media) on the big screen.

I also have 2 8bitdo sn30 controllers that I can just take everywhere because they’re so compact and I use it to play games together on the go.

Not sure if it can be considered old timey, But I enjoyed Caves of Qud-

I have a laptop with a AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS myself. Not sure if it counts as lowspec. But it didn’t cost much and it’s 1.2kg.

I was surprised by what games I could play on this while on the go. Most of the things I play on my desktop work fine on this laptop. Even things like elden ring are playable. It’s crazy what you can achieve with integrated graphics these days.

In the future, actual hacking will just involve social engineering corporate ai systems ( aka prompt hijacking )

Try Readest, open source, works on android, ios, linux, etc. Has syncing of books and highlights/notes. Still in active development though.

Keepassxc for storing/managing passwords. Also supports 2FA, which is great. I can just copy my password db over to whatever device I need it. Or sync it with syncthing