Nah, our little tech buddies love being dragged from purgatory and made useful again. Revive and use your old hardware!
It looks pretty content in the last panel. Struggling but content. Whoops there goes another disk sector.
My old laptop became my router. Now it never gets to sleep. Getting my moneys worth until I need faster than GE.
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. 🤣
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.
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.
Elitebooks also hold up, I Frankenstein’d one together from old broken work laptops 10+ years ago for my brother, I had to replace the wifi chip and HDD that finally died in it the other week and threw Mint onto it with an SSD and that thing still handles like a dream. Boots in less than 10 seconds.
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.
Man, I just remembered my little old music player, maybe I could find it again.
I wonder how many people don’t realize thermal throttling is likely contributor to their old laptop slowing down.
The occasionally blast of compressed air and replacing the 6 year old dried out thermal paste does wonders.
I’ve always felt sus about using canisters instead of compressor/fan. They use gas which instantly freezes the surface, which introduces some serious material stress in the long term. Also, with cold surfaces but warm air comes condensation
I have a refurbished laptop, no clue how old it is, but its battery has long since died. It runs Xubuntu, it’s fully up-to-date, and it’s still a fine lunchtime battlestation. It’s not gonna win any awards and it doesn’t have the latest gaytracing graphics chip, but all I do is browse the fed, what more do I need?
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I swear the old laptop looks older than the last time I saw this meme. He looks older right?
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