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no, let people be weirdos in peace
Old Computer Challenge
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
I gave my wife a 2012 macbook pro running ubuntu. It was a huge upgrade over her ~2014 macbook air running stock, which couldn't even update itself anymore. It never occured to me to consider it might qualify as a "challenge" since it is 14 years old. It just works fantanstically and was my daily driver until 3-4 years ago. I got it off ebay for approximately $100, cleaned it, and put in a new battery.
The 2012 macbook pro (non retina, at least. I never owned a retina one) is the last truly great macbook apple ever made. God I loved that thing, I used it to death and was truly saddened by its loss. It lasted a good 12 years
I had an 11” 2011 air. An incredible machine, one of the best I’ve ever owned. I stupidly replaced it with the 2016 retina touchbar MacBook Pro - which is hands down the worst Mac I’ve ever owned bar none. My modern M1 is fine. But that little air was somehow more fun.
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It’s Reddit coded. I agree.
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#44Since 2013, I have used a laptop made in 2009 as my normal, everyday laptop. I am currently in the process of replacing it, but only because other people have complained about the fan noise.
If that works for you pls buy a second hand MacBook m1 or M2 air (air has worse design but some silicon bugs are ironed out around vms etc) and run it for Linux. It is silent very powerful and you will use for a very long time. Very non repairable tho :(
> you will use for a very long time. Very non repairable tho
This seems moderately contradictory, because as the time that you use something increases the chance of some physical damage increases, especially for a portable device where dropping, an imperfect bag holding, or someone else bumping it, and the like, are all more likely than a stationary device (like a desktop).
This is a huge reason that I don't use many Apple devices, so if they somehow effectively addressed this without reparability, I'd be interested to know. However, I suspect that that's impossible because just making it durable only delays the need to repair, so you end up up shit creek maybe 2 years after buying it instead of 1 year (made up numbers).
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#45Since 2013, I have used a laptop made in 2009 as my normal, everyday laptop. I am currently in the process of replacing it, but only because other people have complained about the fan noise.
>Since 2013, I have used a laptop made in 2009 as my normal, everyday laptop.
What's the specs and what apps are you running?
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#46Since 2013, I have used a laptop made in 2009 as my normal, everyday laptop. I am currently in the process of replacing it, but only because other people have complained about the fan noise.
But why
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#47This is just my life. I have an old netbook running openbsd. It can do netsurf and email just fine when I'm on the go, I have my vita for any media I want to experience on the go, and for anything more intense than viewing a simple website, email/chat, or the occasional perl script, I shell into my home computer
Try yt-dlp+streamlink.
YT-DLP config:
#at ~/.config/yt-dp/config
--format "best[height#~/.config/mpv/config
ytdl-format=bestvideo[heightOn the rest, get MuPDF, nsxiv for images, maybe xfe for files, mutt/sylpheed for email...
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#48I mean, I guess I daily run an old computer. Lenovo T400 from 2009, 2.4Ghz Core 2 Duo with 4GB of RAM. So far I haven't really had any issues. That said today I picked up a Carbon X1 4th gen for $100, that might be become my new Old computer. Also in the process of refurbishing an IBM Aptiva from 1996. Pentium 166Mhz with 64MB RAM, that one is a little beauty. I do like this years challenge, 'hand-make something' as…
T400 is definitely cool, I have a T420 I love. But that Aptiva... man, when those were new, they were full of more bloatware than any other machine I'd ever seen. I made bank in high school just reinstalling windows for people on those... it was like 5x faster when I was done with it, easily. I think it's made it impossible for me to see that as a beauty, though.
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I'm from Spain so I know how to write weird Germanic as in this site... and odd Latin mixed with
- Greek, but that's the default among Latin on borrowing technical/scientifc words since forever and today.
- Basque (tons of them to put there)
- Iberian (Perro?)
- Gothic (casa, sofá, banco, guardia...)
- French (Carnet, garage...)
- Italian (Most Enlightenment related artsy words)
- Arabic (Most al- starting words)
- English (Modern stuff)
So, we all should switch to a pure language, maybe Icelandic and Indoeuropean. And Basque/Iberian in my case. Altough Basque and Iberian share the same numerals... so who knows.
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#50Since 2013, I have used a laptop made in 2009 as my normal, everyday laptop. I am currently in the process of replacing it, but only because other people have complained about the fan noise.
>Since 2013, I have used a laptop made in 2009 as my normal, everyday laptop. What's the specs and what apps are you running?
Intel Atom, 1.66GHz. 2Gib RAM.
I mostly run a web browser, some terminal emulators and a mail reader. Oh, and Emacs.