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Baskets and wheels.

My ten year old desktop.

I have this old PC I made back in 2014. It's an AMD build can't remember the processor, I use it as a multimedia pc hooked up to myain tv in the living room for watching movies shows and streaming, so the specs are low.

I recently updated to a AMD 5500 because the hardware was loosing support so it was time a for a whole new platform. I used the old case and video card from the 2014 build.

When I put the old video card into the new 5500 build I had a really hard time getting drivers for it for Linux Mint and I couldn't figure out why.

It took me a while but that card I swapped over was a freaking Nvidia 8400 from like 2007. That card worked for 18 mfing years!

Then it dawned on me. When I build that computer in 2014 I put that 8400 in there as a place holder until I would have gotten a more up to date card... I just forgot and it's been working diligently since then... I mean wow.

my second monitor says 2009 on the back. still use it. like it more than my main 2016 one which is itself about to turn a decade old.

My home server has been running on a i7 960 with an Intel motherboard for many many years now.

My 2005 Peugeot 206. Although it's always at risk of stalling during heavy rainfall. And my wired headphones that are reliable all the time even though they get stuck in weird places sometimes.

I have an old flatbed scanner that I occasionally use. I bought it in 2003 or 2004. For scanning I use an old 2010 Macbook Pro still running on MacOS X 10.6.8. The scanner software ist written for Power PC, and MacOS X is the last OS that can execute the software. The scanner still works perfectly fine. Some time ago I found out that there is third party software availiable that probably runs on recent macOS installations, but since I refuse to pay for it, I transfer the scanned documents with a thumb drive onto my M1 Macbook Pro. I tried to connect my recent Macbook Pro with my 2010 Macbook Pro via Bluetooth, but I couldn't get them to transfer files between them, although they detect each other in the Bluetooth settings. I suspect that it is a compatibility issue, as there is a huge age gap between both operating systems (∼ 15 years)

i have a fully functional Kodak Brownie, 100 years old.. but it requires ancient 117 roll film.

Sony PCM-M10 field recorder Olympia Travel Typewriter Olympus mju2 point and shoot camera

Original DS Lite.

I would pay hard money for someone to make essentially a 3DS successor PDA running Linux.

The potential is limitless.

iPod classic. The fact that a 2009 device with a mini hard drive still works after dropping the thing like 100 times shows the absolutely ridiculously over engineered build quality on those things.

My LG V20. No current phone can replace the functionality of it. I'm dreading the day the apps I use for work stop working on it and I have to buy some POS modern phone and I can't do half the shit I currently do.

My 2070gtx

Vinyl player.

Few years ago I did a full rebuild of a top-of-the-line tube radio from 1958 and use it daily in my living room. My stereo tube amp is from 1963 or 1964. Both sound astonishing.

My binoculars are from WW II - era. I had to realign the prisms when I got them but the optics are about as good as you can get.

I also use an iPod Nano 2Gen almost daily, I think I bought it in 2008 and the original battery can still hold enough charge for 4-5 hours of continous play. Incredible device with a neat perfect UI. The physical jogwheel can be operated through pocket fabric, so I can switch songs or adjust volume while running without even having to remove the iPod from my pocket.

Me, sweating as I look around my office.

• 3DConnexion SpaceExplorer
• DOS era Gravis controller
• Windows XP era Gravis controller
• Windows XP
• Fountain pens
• Mechanical watches
• Gameboy
• HP-41C calculator
• Old, chrome flashlights

I don't really know where to stop this list. I love old stuff.

I haven't used iPods for like 25 years now, but I always liked that you could instantaneously switch songs, and on modern streaming apps I sometimes need to wait for like a second, because it does god knows what in the meantime.

My thinkpad x220. One of the best laptops ever made

My modded 3ds + modded Wii U system I have a very large library of games that I can run on both systems + I got a lot of controllers for local-couch sessions.

Define "outdated".

My main workstation desktop that I use for most of my heavy lifting was bought in 2016. In the years since, however, it's been maxed out on the RAM that the motherboard can support, the ssds, the video cards, etc... So while it's now hit that bottleneck of "can't upgrade anymore because it's at the limit of what the motherboard itself can handle", I don't consider it outdated because it can still comfortably do what I want it to do.

A close second would by my Lumix G7 mirrorless camera. Old, yes. But still works perfectly fine. Records in 4K and still produces a better result than smartphone cameras because it uses actual proper lenses rather than digital software trickery. With mirrorless and DSLRs, the lenses are far more important than the frame (to a certain extent), so I don't see a need to upgrade that anytime soon.