• O Galdo@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    My laptop for home use is almost 15 years old. My desktop is almost 11 years old. My work laptop is 8 years old. Here they are talking about more modern and powerful equipment, defining them as obsolete. I don’t know, maybe we should start questioning if these consumption dynamics are a bit harmful.

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      1 year ago

      I can even run the latest Stable diffusion models on my 8 year old GPU.

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            1 year ago

            browsers are not the only way to watch YouTube … mpv is older than most of his machines ;)

            but yeah - i get the point

            nevertheless there is a lot you can do with aged hardware - there are lots of desktops/windowmanagers which will happily run as well

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              1 year ago

              mpv is older than most of his machines ;)

              As someone who first started to load programs into his computer with a cassette tape recorder, I’m aware of that.

              browsers are not the only way to watch YouTube

              Between that and apps on a phone, nothing else comes even close in the percentage of usage for viewing a video on the internet.

              but yeah - i get the point

              Thanks. ]:D

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                1 year ago

                As someone who first started to load programs into his computer with a cassette tape recorder, I’m aware of that.

                so you’re older than his machines as well … see - they are not that(!) old ;) :D :D

                i love my thinkpad x1 3rd gen and wouldn’t swap it for anything until it crumbles to dust :D