• dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    You feel sorry for ze little old computer. Zis is because you crazy. It is just a machine; it has no feelings.

    It is working just as well as it was 10 years ago and capable of all the same things now as it was back then. Nothing has changed except your expectations of it. That’s right, there’s nothing wrong with it – in reality, you’re the problem.

    You monster.

  • Agent641@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    My 2012 desktop PC died the other day.

    I took out all her parts and determined that the fault was with the power supply and with a wonky pci shield on the wifi card. Replaced the psu and straighten the shield with pliers, reapply thermal compound for fun, and bam, shes back.

    Its an i73770k lga1155 socket, with 16g DDR3 RAM. They dont make lga1155 sockets anymore, or DDR3 ram, so I would have been out $1600 to replace the CPU, motherboard, and RAM.

    But now, she might have another 5 years in her yet. Im determined to keep her around until she’s old enough to vote at least.

  • nexussapphire@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 years ago

    My Mac mini serving as a movie server for nine years after retirement. If the movie starts stuttering back out and go back in, works every time.

    • kbtaco@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      2008 mbp still working well as my plex server! Ssd really helped it come back to life.

    • Glowstick@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Absolutely, a ten year old computer today is still capable of doing pretty much everything that most people use computers for. It’s not like the old days when every few years a new tier of computer would come out that made older devices no longer capable of doing what people wanted.

      • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 years ago

        I was still running a Q6600 (a 2.4 gHz quad core from 2007) until a few years ago. It ran most things acceptably for its entire life - it wasn’t until around the time of PS4 Pro/Xbox Whatever ports that it could no longer keep up, and even that was largely due to the other components I was restricted to on such an old motherboard.

        That thing was also a tank. The CPU cooler was stock and the thermal paste had degraded and separated to the point it idled at 65c, but I never had a single hardware fault in nearly fifteen years of running it. I kind of miss it.