Somehow RSS/Atom managed to remain perfect throughout the decades without spam or other unsolicited messages.

If you're happy with OpenBSD, probably any computer is good enough by Connor Oliver

https://bentsukun.ch/posts/pkgsrc-agitprop/

These days, a lot of upstream software has a manual with a section on installation that does not give instructions for actually building it. (It seems like building from source is so 1995, or something.)