Not so obscure, just 50mb and very functional, in between tiny core and puppy.

Not really obscure

• Cmus.
• mpg123 4 internet radios.
• FFplay | mpv.
• zxtune.
• Years ago: moc or deadbeef (because foobar2000).

Maybe netsurf, Dillo or w3m/links, if you don’t need JavaScript, if you do, you need at least 4GB RAM to have a better web experience.

Today’s web is very RAM hungry (bloat).

• Hardware (GPU) encoders are worst than software encoders.
• GPU Acceleration is good for faster encoding and free CPU to do other things. But you get bigger files at similar quality.
• Maybe is useful for live streaming or if you really really need CPU do other things.

• This or any tiling window manager, because small screen. If dwm is hard for you, try with bellow options.
• i3wm was my first, but now I’m happy with my actual dwm config.
• Awesomewm starts as a dwm fork, but with all included and easier for beginners.
• There are a lot more, but I start with this.

You get better screen use space and smaller memory requirements.

But your real big problem, is going to be web browser, all of them consume insane amount of RAM because of web bloat, and always is going to be a problem. Just 1 tab open and a lot of patience.

My old netbook had just 1GB ram, later I did an upgrade to 2GB and was the maximum possible.

• I usually use Lemmy at my smartphone with 4G that was released 3 years ago, I’m happy with it, and I don’t need other one more new and expensive.

• The area of 4G is very congested, then the connection is slower in peak hours.

• Only rich people has last medium and high end smartphone with 5G, and live in area with that coverage.

• I live now in downtown, and just got slow fiber connection 3 months ago, there are a lot buildings with only ADSL in this area, and it’s the capital.

• Maybe you are lucky, with good connection.

• Is not so hard to optimize the image for everyone in the world, and maybe put a link to original big image of you want.

• There’s a lot of ways to optimize, like changing resolution, reduce colors, clean image. And compression, using webp lossy 95% you got a very small file that looks very close to the original, usually got less than 1MB.

• Today’s web is very bloated for no reason, and very slow in old computers. Browsers are the main RAM eaters.

• My firestick (4k) has Android, with correct accessory (that allows power and OTG at the same time).
• You can connect to USB drive or hub.
• Has remote control.
• There are alternative launchers to avoid ads.
• You can sideload most things.

• vis
  vim/nvim was bloated 4 my use case, but ví wasn’t enough. I like minimal and suck less.

I also like this in Linux, but isn’t on Android or Termux.

Also in termux:

• fclones
• rdfind
• go-findimagedupes