• cattywampas@lemmy.world
    94·
    8 天前

    “All I can really do anymore is browse the Internet and maybe stream some music.”

    “And that’s enough for me, old friend.”

    • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
      45·
      8 天前

      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!

  • morto@piefed.socialEnglish
    651·
    8 天前

    That comic must be 10 years old, because 10 years old laptops these days would be drawn ripped and making pushups

    • cRazi_man@europe.pub
      30·
      8 天前

      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.

  • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netEnglish
    27·
    8 天前

    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

    • Mongostein@lemmy.ca
      2·
      8 天前

      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.

  • Caketaco@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    18·
    8 天前

    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.

    • wabasso@lemmy.caEnglish
      7·
      8 天前

      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!

    • kamen@lemmy.world
      2·
      7 天前

      Yeah, but maybe remove the battery if the thing can run without it just on mains power. Leaving a battery plugged in (especially an old one) is not the best idea.

    • squaresinger@lemmy.world
      2·
      7 天前

      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.

  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
    141·
    8 天前

    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.

    • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org
      41·
      8 天前

      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.

  • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldEnglish
    121·
    8 天前

    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.”

    • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      9·
      8 天前

      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.

      • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world
        6·
        8 天前

        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.

      • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        8 天前

        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.

    • Rhaedas@fedia.io
      4·
      8 天前

      My C-64 still boots up instantly, just as it did on day one. Far faster than Windows could ever dream.

    • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      8 天前

      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.)