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Laptops have soul
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tlirsgender:
Laptops are always so much more Fucked than phones in my experience. A laptop is like a beautiful horse that wants nothing more than to break all of its legs. A decently solid android phone will act normal.
A laptop is a living creature. It has weight to it. A laptop breathes and produces body heat. And it wants to die badly. Mobile phones are not sentient like that & that's why they don't experience mental illness. A phone problem is like "out of storage :(" or "charging port broke". Laptops will cough weakly as they fade in and out of consciousness.
You will hold a laptop in your arms and it's like "I can't feel my legs". And you tell it girl you never had any.
I've got a 23-year-old netbook that slowly perished under the weight of windows. I've got some lightweight Linux distro on it and its absolutely fucking fine.
I resurrected it specifically to use as a digital reference guide for electronics, and to program my new Arduino. It can even barely load Firefox (exclusive) OR play videos!
Tldr is: Buy old electronics. Use better software.
The wild thing to me is a computer from 2005 running (a fresh install of) Windows XP feels more snappy and responsive than a computer from 2025 running Windows 11. Everything about the newer machine is somewhere between 4 and 10,000 times more powerful; processor clock speed, core count, cache capacity, RAM capacity, RAM speed, main bus speed, storage speed. I mean, that alone, in 2005 SATA hard disk drives were basically the only option, NVMe SSDs are considerably faster. But how is it that machines felt snappy back in the day but are now utterly useless?
Windows bloat has outpaced the ability of hardware to keep up.
Windows seems to be gaseous, it expands to take up the available space.
and it stinks!
~~never forget, oh poweruser, what blind enshittification has robbed from you.~~
e: whoopswhoopswhoops!
i remembered the phrasing from somewhere, and after a couple searches i realized it must’ve been here.
that specific wording is literally straight off a monument, erected by germany in 1933, at the polish border, which was a popular pilgrimage site for german nationalists.
big whoops.
Perhaps we can substitute "Abandon all optimizations, ye who enter here"?
reverse it, “abandon all bloat, ye who downgrade”
An Amiga 500 feels more snappy in many ways than current machines.
If you want to experience something like that try haiku-os.org
After much hesitation, I bit the bullet and installed Linux Mint on my old netbook from college, an HP Mini 210. It runs MUCH better than the stupid limited Windows it had, and it's great for running old DOS games for my kid. Firefox is... another story.
I wonder how many people glossed over "netbook" without understanding what your referring to That's incredible 🤣