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[-] M137@lemmy.world 159 points 2 years ago

All I have is a 13 year old laptop, and I use it basically all day most days. It's plays music and movies etc with no issues. Cloud pc for gaming, which also works perfectly. It really doesn't like youtube, though, and it sounds like a jet engine every time system and app updates start to download. Can't afford to get anything better anyway. A friend gave it to me after it died on him and he got a new one, wasn't hard to fix. I cried when I got it because it improved my life a lot, just being able to do basic things.

[-] Nesola@lemmy.world 35 points 2 years ago
[-] M137@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Thank you, I needed that!

[-] JackOfAllTraits@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago

My man, I am glad you have such a dependable machine and I hope that, in the future, it will be by choice and not need rhat you use old devices. Hold in there!

[-] thecrotch@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 years ago

Have you tried blowing out the fan? After 13 years it might be all gunked up

[-] M137@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I try to keep it clean. I'm pretty sure the fan has been warped, so one of the blades drags against the housing a bit, and I don't have the tools to open it up that much to try to fix it. It only happens at high fan speeds, though, and that doesn't happen often enough to be truly annoying.

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[-] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 11 points 2 years ago

Looks like your problem is Windows. Linux works much better on old hardware.

[-] M137@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I've been meaning to get rid of Windows for a while now. Haven't really used Linux since like 2010, so it feels like a lot to get into. Already saved some websites, articles, and lemmy posts with good info, though.
One reason I haven't done it yet is because I did manage to save up a bit of money (only like $300) after about a decade of never being able to feed myself at the end of each month. The plan was to get a steam deck, something I've deeply wished for ever since I heard about it, and keep the laptop only as a backup. But I got robbed... forgot my card at a grocery store self checkout, and someone took it and somehow managed to use it. Had just gotten money for that month, so no bills had been paid yet. Not only did I lose the saved money, but I had to take out a loan to pay my rent, etc. So any dream of a steam deck or anything else is dead, it will take years to pay off that loan.

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[-] SeekPie@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Idk if invidious would be lighter that normal youtube, but maybe that would work?

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[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 88 points 2 years ago
[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago

My 12 year old thinkpad is still my daily driver.

Speakers stopped working 5 years ago tho. Only BT audio out, now.

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[-] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 77 points 2 years ago

Do you have a few minutes to talk about our Lord and Saviour, Linus Torvalds?

[-] kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

Of course, God bless his kind soul, may the eternal peace lay on his lands

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[-] LanternEverywhere@kbin.social 59 points 2 years ago

I use a 12 year old laptop as my daily driver, and use it to do high res video editing. A decade old computer these days is still highly capable.

[-] Davel23@kbin.social 16 points 2 years ago

Up until about a year ago my main gaming rig was a laptop from 2012. Toward the end I had to turn settings down (sometimes WAY down) but it still performed like a champ.

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[-] bilb@lemmy.ml 48 points 2 years ago

This is the weird, sentimental attitude that has me buried in clutter

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[-] gibmiser@lemmy.world 41 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

My Zune still playing

cough hack wheeze

"Is that all you got?"

[-] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 years ago

I miss my Zune. Do you seriously still have one?

[-] gibmiser@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

Yep. Mounted on the wall in my dad's barn, playing an endless shuffle of my music from 15? Years ago.

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[-] sverit@feddit.de 40 points 2 years ago
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[-] ThePJN@sopuli.xyz 37 points 2 years ago

Wholesome-ness on the internet? In this economy?!

[-] swag_money@lemmy.world 35 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

i daily an 11 year old ThinkPad. it's fast and does everything i need it to do. buying new is for suckers

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[-] Jumi@lemmy.world 35 points 2 years ago

I love watching videos about plane crashes on my old tablet when I'm cooking or rinsing (non-native here, is that right for doing a dishwasher's job by hand?).

[-] MadBob@feddit.nl 38 points 2 years ago

"Washing dishes" or "doing the dishes". πŸ‘

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[-] radiosimian@lemmy.world 31 points 2 years ago

A heads-up to anyone running old laptops; buy genuine replacement batteries while they're available!

I have an aging XPS 13 and of course, Dell have discontinued the battery line. Opened it up one day and every cell had puffed out. It took buying a couple of fakes before finally finding a decent reseller on eBay who stocked what I needed. The fake batteries were not recognised by Dell's hardware detection system thing, I imagine lots of other manufacturers might implement the same feature.

[-] iopq@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago

Or don't buy from manufacturers that do this

[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago

It's often too late to realize it's non repairable. When reviews first come out, no one reviews the drm on components. Even those teardown sites only cover how hard it is to open up a device but don't cover if a part is drm'd until moths or years later. Because there is no way to know until 3rd party parts come out and they don't work.

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[-] Gruntyfish@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago

My ten year old laptop has 4 gigs of RAM and can barely boot windows. It can run Linux pretty well but it still only has 4 gigs of RAM

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[-] nao@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 years ago

oddly wholesome

[-] Matriks404@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago

Old laptops will still run pretty good if you run lightweight Linux distribution and give it some RAM upgrade and maybe SSD as well. I still wouldn't use them as my main computer, as I'd rather have a lot better specs and ability to run Win10/Win11 flawlessly, but it's still a good option.

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[-] CodyCannoli@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago

I let my brother use mine to play Minecraft.

[-] mack7400@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

Here, bro. Here's your laptop

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[-] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 years ago

Tf when your 10-year old laptop can still handle Minecraft. Mine freezes from just looking at it funny.

Got a little better once I wiped it completely and installed Kubuntu, but it's still not really in a great shape

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[-] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

β€” Could you skip to the next song?

β€” no. I cannot.

[-] astraeus@programming.dev 18 points 2 years ago

Looking over at my old Thinkpad X131e with those β€œI’m going to start a new project with you” eyes

[-] TastyWheat@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

My Surface Pro 3 refuses to die despite the fans giving out, and YouTube plays like shit now thanks to the potato GPU.

Still use it everyday.

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[-] Emerald@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

I've never had any issues playing music on a 10 year old laptop

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 13 points 2 years ago

Pretty sure anything capable from the Windows XP era onwards could play an MP3.

Whether it run the bloated Chromium mess that the Spotify client is, is another matter.

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[-] joyvio@lemmy.wtf 14 points 2 years ago

Meanwhile, my two-year old Celeron not being able to reliably play a FLAC file without stuttering...

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[-] creditCrazy@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

There's something oddly wholesome about this comic.

[-] lemmesay@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 2 years ago

haha, reminds me of when I'd compile Firefox on my 12yo computer.
never felt its old age because Debian rocks.

[-] Metz@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

17 year old Dell here. Threw a SSD and Linux on it and that damn thing boots faster than most brand new Desktops. Absolutely enough to surf the web, listen to music, watch videos or do the usual Linux stuff (ssh, etc.). You can even somewhat game on it via sunshine/moonlight.

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[-] Zink@programming.dev 14 points 2 years ago

This is very well timed for me. I just acquired myself a convenient ancient laptop by installing Linux on a circa 2014 chrome book. It can chug when playing videos, but great for general use.

[-] slaacaa@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

I love this, so wholesome. I have a 2009 Mac mini I’m still using sometimes

[-] Tristaniopsis@aussie.zone 13 points 2 years ago

Man I feel that in my bones.

[-] Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

Old laptops also make for great servers and hobby computers. If you don't need the form factor of a pi or mini pc, throw Debian or whatever on an old laptop and play away! I've got jellyfin, my DNS, reverse proxy and an octoprint server running on mine. It's the little heart of our network.

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[-] ODuffer@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

I've got a 13 year old probook 5330m. It's running Lubuntu, with no working battery these days, but it's fine other than that.

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