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cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/nonpolitical_comics/p/1654790/alexkrokus-elders
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“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!
My home server has a 12 year old cpu, and that bad boy just keeps chugging along running 24/7.
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
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.
Nine year old CPU in mine, even hosting Minecraft servers for 10+ people with zero issues.
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.
Same but mine’s a 2011 Mac mini with Ubuntu
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.
Older thinkpads are still a great deal too. Just have to stick to the actual business ones and not the consumer ones.
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.
…
Right?
10 year old isn’t that old - 20 is the new 10
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
He’s just a little guy doin his best!
This was a great way to write out the feelings I had. Just so wholesome
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.
It has Linux now but I don’t know exactly how old it is so I call it by its original os
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.
Somebody give that poor thing Linux already! D:
Laptop afterwards: From the moment I understood the weakness of the batch, it disgusted me.
Where there is service, there is life.
I recently revived an old EEEPC 1005P. I put Antix Linux on it and it’s totally usable.
Firefox needed some tweaks (specifically reducing the process count) to make it run somewhat decently. It still doesn’t do Youtube, but it works fine enough for programming in Kate, doing terminal stuff and other simple native apps. Electron apps are a bit of a pain on that thing.
It’s a really nice little on-the-go device that I use to work on my hobby projects on the train when commuting to work. Super small, super light, 8h battery life.
Ah YouTube ain’t worth it anymore anyway.
My 12 year old Hackintosh MBP is doing great with Ubuntu. Mid-2014 machine and it’s still my daily driver!
My stock 2016 MacBook is still running strong.
Words of wisdom from my father, an engineer:
“The computer isn’t any slower than the day you bought it. Only your expectations of it have changed.”
It’s not the hardware that’s the issue. The software keeps getting slower and more bloated because most programmers don’t know how to write well optimized code anymore.
No, they definitely do know how to write faster software. They’re just not paid for that. They’re paid to write software faster, that’s all.
That falls under the category of “expectations.” Run software contemporary to your machine and it’ll fly just as fast as it ever did. Go ahead, slap Windows 98 on that bad boy.
This is a lot more true now than it was in the olden days of hard drive fragmentation and rapidly increasing minimum spec requirements. (For instance the computer my family bought in 1996 had a mind blowing 16mb of ram, Win ME released in 1999 with a 32mb RAM requirement.)
My C-64 still boots up instantly, just as it did on day one. Far faster than Windows could ever dream.
Surpised the capacitors havent borked. You are lucky it runs.
Fuck it do the linux meme and make it into a web server!
I suggest MPD i love using old hardware to stream my music around the house
still rocking the x230 from 2013 😎
got my xps 9560 and enough parts to make her run for another two decades.
This is my 16 year old laptop.
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.
Looks so pleasant in the last panel like “awwwwyiss, still got it~”
Fresh OS install can do wonders. Especially if you switch to a lower resource intensive one.
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