• lattrommi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    My eeepc sadly died last year, it was a single core laptop i had running hannah montana linux in my bathroom as a music player.

    My Precision M6400, a dual core made in 2008, is still going strong and sure, it’s slow, but it still works and has replaced the eeepc in the bathroom so now I can listen to music OR watch videos (not streaming) during my extra long showers. i don’t keep it in the bathroom, it’s on a dock in another room connected to a monitor with a really long dvi-i cable.

      • lattrommi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I fed the cable through a hole in the wall, not that it matters since the door doesn’t shut all the way. The building is old and the frame doesn’t match the door shape anymore.

        It was easy to feed the line because, well, the monitor is in the hole too. It’s a big hole. Honestly, it’s kind of embarrassing. A mouse infestation took out the supports and drywall around an exhaust vent/air conditioner wall-unit thing and it fell out of the wall. Plus the landlord is a slum lord.

        I can’t really do a current picture for complicated phone reasons/problems. Just imagine a monitor in this hole, instead of the portal to Narnia which I lovingly crafted in GIMP: https://i.imgur.com/BLHhUF0.gif

        The monitor is in that, mostly held in with spray foam and duct tape. My rent is $325 a month, no contract, no late fees up to 3 months. My landlord is a slumlord. IDK, I feel that might help explain things around here.

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    I remember when a ten year old laptop was just trash, unable to even boot a modern OS. Current hardware capacity exceeds our actual demand by so much that a ten year old computer is still adequate for most users (assuming you aren’t on Windows).

    My 8 year old 1080ti graphics card can run most games perfectly fine on a 1080p/60 screen (still the most common spec budget monitor). I would not be surprised if it that PC hits 10+ years of gaming without a real need for upgrade.

    • LilB0kChoy@lemm.ee
      1·
      2 months ago

      assuming you aren’t on Windows

      This is the tough part.

      I had a 2011 MacBook Pro sitting around some years ago I had upgraded from and I offered it to my brother for his kids to use because of the built in child controls they could setup. He just told me a few weeks ago they were done with it and asked me if I could wipe it or tell him how to do it could be recycled.

      I took it back, put Mint XFCE on it but I can’t give it away to anyone I know because it has Linux on it. I’ll probably get a display cable for it and run it as my torrent box.

    • Samskara@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      My ten year old laptop is an i7 with 16 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD and a dedicated graphics chip.

      My current laptop has 24 GB RAM and also a 1 TB SSD.

      Feels like not much progress.

      • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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        2 months ago

        The one place I see a huge leap is in MacBooks. The capabilities of a 2015 Intel based MBP are laughable when compared to an M4 based 2025 MBP. I use an MBP for my music production and I just cannot make it choke, no matter what I throw at it.

    • skarn@discuss.tchncs.de
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      2 months ago

      Put in a SSD and you’ll be surprised how far it can get you.

      My father is still using a 13 year old 14" Dell I gave up 6 years ago. He’s even using it with windows 10, and having a SSD it works almost bearably well. They keyboard broke, and with the laptop not being Win11 compatible, he asked for an upgrade.

      I got him a 6 year old Thinkpad, but I’ll install Mint and give him a VM for the few SWs he needs Windows for.