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oldcomputerchallenge (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 1 week ago by pmjv to c/unix_surrealism
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[-] paperd@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 week ago

My main rig is a haswell i5, do I qualify?

[-] pmjv 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Well, the idea is to challenge yourself in some way. It's not going to be much fun, if you just keep using your every day machine.

Some people without actual old machines throttle down their CPUs, disable cores, or limit RAM.

Others limit/allocate their time spent on a computer/internet a day.

I'm doing no xorg on a T42.

[-] paperd@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 week ago

Others limit/allocate their time spent on a computer/internet a day.

This is a healthy idea... But its so hot outside. Maybe I should dedicate time to napping.

[-] finkrat@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

When you're broke so your main rig is an old B-grade Thinkpad off eBay anyways

[-] pmjv 10 points 1 week ago

it's called a lifestyle and it's respectable.

[-] 3w0 4 points 1 week ago

I could have bought a nice M1 or M2 but instead I modded an X230 and T430 up instead!

[-] wesker 6 points 1 week ago

Should I participate, with my A31p?

[-] pmjv 5 points 1 week ago
[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

my 2009 i5 with a broken screen cable is yearning to be ressurrected rn

[-] pmjv 5 points 1 week ago

surround it by 5 candles, light them, whisper a prayer to the spirit of the machine, boot it up

[-] void@mastodon.sdf.org 3 points 1 week ago

@pmjv
I have newer machines at my desk, i have a desktop with 12 cores waiting for a command yet when it is time for computing it is the job of x201.
I love my x201.

[-] Hexarei@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

Hmmm. I have an old 2012 HP netbook running a first generation C-series AMD APU (think it's the Brazos platform) kicking around somewhere. Could be fun (or horrible!) to try and daily driver that.

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