• cattywampas@lemmy.world
    74·
    17 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.”

    • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
      36·
      17 days ago

      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
    50·
    17 days ago

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

  • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netEnglish
    20·
    17 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

    • Mongostein@lemmy.ca
      2·
      17 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.

  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
    13·
    17 days ago

    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
      2·
      17 days ago

      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.

  • Caketaco@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    12·
    17 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
      4·
      17 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·
      16 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.

    • Rhaedas@fedia.io
      4·
      17 days ago

      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
      2·
      17 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.)

  • rmuk@feddit.ukEnglish
    8·
    17 days ago

    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.

    • limelight79@lemmy.world
      2·
      17 days ago

      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.

  • Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works
    8·
    17 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