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>>1021019 (OP)

Console web browsers. You might be interested in bandwidth shaping programs like trickle so one program doesn't hog every resource. At the very least, you would want to disable javascript or use a plugin like noscript. Learn how to use wget or curl effectively so your computer can be downloading while you're off doing something else.

>I will be limited to 80-100kbs internet for an extended period of time.

I route most things through Tor, but I had a long phase where my speeds were 16 kbps. I had to visit the library to download a 100 MB file once, because the website didn't support resumed downloads. That may be your biggest problem.

>What programs should I install that will use the least amount of bandwidth (background included) while still attempting to use the modern internet.

What I did was just run batch jobs on anything large. If you're downloading a large image, just go do something else for a few minutes until it's downloaded. If you want to download a large file or watch a video, just batch it and come back in a few hours or do it while you're sleeping.

>Ive already given up on multipalyer vidya

Play at the library like I did.

>>1021019 (OP)

Thats not too bad at all. A year ago I had to make do with similar, I didn't play games online so that didn't matter. Torrents I had to leave on for months though. Main problem is downloading files from a website. Use JDownloader because you can resume file downloads, can't tell you how many times a download failed after a whole day of downloading.

>>1021019 (OP)

If that's your computer, you're fucked.

Download Solitaire.

Sounds like you will be in a remote location.

Read a book.

Mein Kampf

>>1021019 (OP)

You can try using gopher instead of http stuff. There's loads of interesting stuff there and you also won't miss out on news, wikipedia, hacker news, twitter etc. as they have their unofficial gopher frontends.

Get a feed reader like Liferea, it can download the articles on the backgroud

For communication, besides the email client, you can also have the Telegram client for desktop

And probably useful to have a advenced download manager, like Aria2

>>1021022

Also besides NoScript you can disable remote fonts and images bigger then x with uBlock

>>1021046

>Read a book.

> Mein Kampf

this but unironically

Is there anything to compression proxies like like UCBrowser or Opera turbo mode?

>>1021019 (OP)

OSRS has a very low network requirement if you want to play a multiplayer game.