I love keeping old devices running; I recently had a similar project replacing the battery in my Sony eReader. It was a satisfying task and now it's more reliably keeping charge.
Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed it. I took some inspiration from your website, namely the Guestbook with HTML Comments Box. MyPal is a fork of Pale Moon actually. I was inspired to create the guide because Chicago95 had just launched their Python install script, which made installing it much easier. Just trying to give people a fuller view of Web 1.0 here on Neocities, more than just the HTML websites themselves.
They're not compatible with old laptops, but you should check out the new M2 SSD drives. They are blazing fast and as big as a stick of gum. Really wild how far PCs have come in the last decade. I built my own PC a month ago. https://baloo.neocities.org/blog/2020-10-29-blog.html