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cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/nonpolitical_comics/p/1654790/alexkrokus-elders
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I love how affectionate this comic is. I’m really feeling for the old laptop, but I’m feeling the appreciation and understanding from the human
Plug your old laptops into your living room TV, buy a wireless mouse/keyboard combo, and you’ve got the ultimate media machine that you have full control over. I always do this whenever I move.
I’ve thought about how any old pc would blow all those proprietary devices out of the water with their flexibility to play anything, any format, any source. And I’ve also thought I currently have too many old laptops. No idea how I didn’t put two and two together until your comment. Thank you!
I do have a used ThinkPad what I bought out from my workplace for dirt cheap. Maybe it’s time to look into buying a TV.
still rocking the x230 from 2013 😎
got my xps 9560 and enough parts to make her run for another two decades.
I put Linux mint on my 2016 laptop. It runs great.
2016? But the comic said ten year old lapto… Fuck
It keeps getting worse, too. The nineties wasn’t that long ago. I swear.
Just one decade or sth.
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Right?
Ten years? Up until recently I had a Core2Duo with 1GB RAM running Qobus in as a jukebox in the bedroom. But now he’s gone, off to a better place, where he can finally rest. By which I mean I upgraded to 4GB and installed at a relative’s house running Home Assistant.
I had a Core2Quad with 4GB of RAM as my home server until about 2 years ago. Home Assistant is what finally overloaded it. (I have a fairly large setup with a ton of integrations.)
Upgraded the desktop, now the old desktop is the server. I think it’s already 10 years old.
Man, one more year, then my ThinkPad T25 will be 10 years old. It’s still my workhorse that I use every day, and you can pry it from my cold, dead hands when I die.
I have a ten year old laptop as my NAS. It has some issues sometimes but it was a pretty cool project for tech I barely used anymore. Now I use it every day.
That comic must be 10 years old, because 10 years old laptops these days would be drawn ripped and making pushups
10 years old would be 7th Gen Intel which is perfectly capable.
For anyone else budget conscious: you can get excellent laptops by looking for an 8th gen Intel laptops in pristine condition on eBay for <£150. This will be perfect for daily use, web, office, etc. If you need gaming then get a used Steam Deck OLED. This is suitable computing for a huge number of people’s usecase.
If you are in the USA and are on public assistance, then https://pcsrefurbished.com/sales/salesHome is a great place, especially for laptops. My last laptop from here is a HP Zbook 15 Fury G8 with a Nvidia RTX A2000 for $175.
“All I can really do anymore is browse the Internet and maybe stream some music.”
“And that’s enough for me, old friend.”
It’s the opposite for me. Using a modern browser is a real struggle, but running old games, watching DVDs and listening to MP3s? As good as ever!
This is my 16 year old laptop.
What, why would a 10yo laptop struggle to play music? Or even a 20yo laptop, if the comic is a bit older already. Apart from the battery of course, but those take years to go tired, not decades.
And with those RAM prices - I for one am happy with my 13yo laptop.
It’s running Windows 11.
My dual core thinkpad struggles hard with windows or youtube. Twitch is impossible on it even on linux mint. The biggest problem is no hardware decoding for modern codecs. The crappy dual core can’t handle the software decoding. I think it’s about 13 years old now.
10 year old isn’t that old - 20 is the new 10
My home server has a 12 year old cpu, and that bad boy just keeps chugging along running 24/7.
Mine’s a 2006 HP Z600 workstation, proudly serving punk rock and The Room (2003) 24/7 on demand to me and me only, because neither my family or my friends want punk rock or The Room (2003)
Ha ha ha! What a story, Swab!
Don’t worry about it
I just lost my ATI X1950XT yesterday after I bumped it installing a replacement HDD into my home servers raid cluster. RIP 20 year old GPU, you had a commendable service life
I’m still sad the mobo for my i7 920 died. That CPU was a beast. Maybe one day I’ll get a 1366 server mobo and set it up as a NSA.
Nine year old CPU in mine, even hosting Minecraft servers for 10+ people with zero issues.
my PC is a 2013 HP. 4 years ago I got fancy and bought a gtx 1070ti. both are enough for me and have been running well.
Same but mine’s a 2011 Mac mini with Ubuntu
My iMac is 11 years old. Use it to WFH two days a week and it’s running on Windows 11 (Rufus build that skips all the hardware checks). Have to use that OS as it’s a domain joined device using the work VPN. Works great.
My laptop I bought new in 2012 is running my Jellyfin server. And working great.
Someone else’s old windows 7 laptop for mine. Works perfectly.
I put Linux on mine because Windows 7 quit working on it years ago.
I’ve got 3 Thinkpad 420s (nice) - released 2011ish - that I got for free last summer. They all run Linux Mint now. One runs Jellyfin, one runs Sonarr and Radarr, one runs Jackett and Transmission. Works great!
This is an upgrade from the 2010 Dell, which was free from a friend with no working screen and missing 5 keys that I had running all of that.
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