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Elders [Alex Krokus] (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

My 9 year old laptop is currently sitting in two pieces... But only because I wanted to pull the hard drive out for easier transferring of old files I wanted to keep.

When I get back to the main part, I'll be removing 90% of the apps on it, doing everything I can to make it run better, and it will be my hobby shop computer. It was going back and forth between my game room and the garage where I kept my lasers and printers.

If and when it finally bites the dust, it will be given a place of honor amongst the modern tech. Like a transparent top coffee table with all the parts disassembled and arranged inside.

I'm weirdly nostalgic about my electronics.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Turn your old computer into Lemmy or federated servers.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I remember one of my first machines, a 486DX50 I think, really had a hard time playing mp3 files. But it hasn't been an issue for anything that came later.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I remember when I had a P60 and mp3 players could barely keep up

Then winamp came along and whipped the llama's ass

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (1 children)

At least he looks like he's enjoying making music =)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Far more than comfort, we old men want most to be useful.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I recently resurrected an old desktop computer (linux is great for ding this) I had built in 2009. I upgraded the ram to ~~8Gb~~ 16Gb, replaced the broken graphics card and installed Gnu Guix using the system crafters install guide. I'm not doing any hardcore gaming so it does everything I need it to do. I have a raid store, jellyfin server, and samba share.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I have an old lightweight laptop that I use for youtube videos from time to time.

Page loads take 3-10 seconds. Video decoding, once it gets going, is great due to dedicated MPEG hardware. But the site itself - well, old man gets there eventually.

Edit: already stripped overhead to the bone by running Bodhi Linux. I may try FF over Chromium in case there's more performance to be had. But the 2GB RAM footprint is really pushing it these days.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

FreeTube?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Possibly. I'll give that shot, thanks.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Pfft, I make music with my ten year old laptop.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

what kind?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

BEEP BOOP BEEP BOOP!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Hmm. Human music. I like it!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Nailed it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Fruity loops?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Bitwig Studio, sound design and modulation focused DAW, with Linux support, from former Ableton devs*. A recent update does allow it to open FL projects (among others) but I haven't tested that part.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I have a 14 year old laptop that runs like a top with debian 12 on it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Same with mine, i'm only still to dumb to get it using the old nvidia gpu instead of the intel graphics. Didn't take the time yet to look further into it

[–] [email protected] -4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

How about installing Gentoo on it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

no one is seriously going to install gentoo on an old laptopt just to get it slightly faster. Gentoo is for hobbyists

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Why?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

Not sure the 0.01s of reduced login time is worth the 30 hours it'll take to build the kernel.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I still have a Samsung Ultrabook Series 9 with Windows 7 Ultimate laying around. Buddy is over 10 years old and works in a pinch as a replacement device. It's always a pleasure opening it and seeing the custom login screen

I wish I could upgrade it with a USB-C and more RAM but Samsung was really anti consumer back then...

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