• Pommes_für_dein_Balg@feddit.org
    79·
    2 months ago

    My 10yo laptop is faster than my wife’s new one.
    I mean hers is a lot more powerful obviously, but fuck if I know what Windows does with that power, cause it sure isn’t using it for the stuff she wants to do.

    • unphazed@lemmy.world
      8·
      2 months ago

      Between Windows 11 and Chrome. I had 8gb RAM on my wife’s PC and with my wife jist running those two had 3gb left. Chrome was using 3Gb alone and there were 4 tabs open. My brain hurt trying to figure that out. I went through disabling all manner of startup processes and services. Helped a little, but not with Chrome. I finally just upgraded to 16gb. She doesn’t like full reinstalls (use the damn share folder on the server and don’t worry about lost files. Yes, it is mapped, it has your name and is only 1 of the three drives listed. At least backup the important ones so I won’t have to pray Recuva works)

  • Mac@mander.xyzEnglish
    31·
    2 months ago

    Nah, our little tech buddies love being dragged from purgatory and made useful again. Revive and use your old hardware!

    • jol@discuss.tchncs.de
      17·
      2 months ago

      It looks pretty content in the last panel. Struggling but content. Whoops there goes another disk sector.

  • F04118F@feddit.nl
    30·
    2 months ago

    I installed VoidLinux on a 17 year old laptop with 2GB of DDR2

    Is that like teaching grandpa factorio?

    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      19·
      2 months ago

      I just replaced the HDD with an SSD and installed Pop!_OS on my partner’s 12-13 year old Levovo with a backup boot to Windows 10 LTSC IoT and it’s still running like a champion! It could use another 8GB RAM but both video cards in it are recognized by both Linux and Windows!

  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
    20·
    2 months ago

    *20 years old laptop. The ten years old is as old as this meme. Computer tech progress slowed down in the last 10 years.

  • brap@lemmy.world
    9·
    2 months ago

    My old laptop became my router. Now it never gets to sleep. Getting my moneys worth until I need faster than GE.

  • communism@lemmy.ml
    8·
    2 months ago

    10 years old is 2016. That’s not that old. I still have multiple devices from 2017 going strong, and they don’t feel old.

  • Captain_Faraday@programming.devEnglish
    8·
    2 months ago

    My refurbished 2011 Lenovo W530 Thinkpad with 24GB from college has been running as a proxmox cluster node for the last year at least! No battery, the replacement died years ago. 🤣

  • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
    7·
    2 months ago

    Sometimes, old machines are survivors. Beware of confirmation bias when trash/thrift-picking cheap systems though. IMO, Thinkpads can be tough as a coffin nail. Including work systems, I’m on number 8 at this point with no hardware failures in sight.

    That said, I have a very lightweight Acer that’s about a decade old with the worst keyboard and trackpad ever manufactured. It also performs like a slug, even with Linux on it. Still, it refuses to break so I can get rid of it.

      • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 months ago

        Oooh, rocking an HP? I too like to live dangerously.

        But seriously, that’s good to know. Those are probably easier to come by out in the wild. It really looks like Thinkpads go from office deployments straight to refurb companies these days. I never see them at thrift stores, and I’m not brave enough to dumpster-dive at e-waste.

  • gerryflap@feddit.nl
    3·
    2 months ago

    It does feel like that yeah. But honestly it would probably still be pretty fast if the GPU driver support didn’t cease. Being on the integrated GPU has made the thing age another 10 years, that piece of shit was already horrendously slow when the Laptop was new