• cattywampas@lemmy.world
    60·
    9 days ago

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

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

  • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netEnglish
    21·
    9 days ago

    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

  • Caketaco@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    14·
    9 days ago

    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
      5·
      9 days ago

      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·
      8 days ago

      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.

    • Mongostein@lemmy.ca
      2·
      9 days 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.

  • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71·
    9 days ago

    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
      8·
      9 days ago

      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
        5·
        9 days ago

        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·
        9 days ago

        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.

    • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      9 days ago

      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.)

  • Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    9 days ago

    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

  • rustydrd@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    9 days ago

    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.