I bought a desktop PC for a little over 2k in late 2011, and still use it. I'm a back-end developer, and certainly I would like to be able to upgrade my 16 GB RAM to 32 GB in an affordable way.

Other than that, it's perfectly fine. IDE, a few docker containers, works.

And modern gaming is a scam anyway. Realistic graphics do not increase fun, they just eat electricity and our money. Retro gaming or not at all.

Imagine how things were if they were built to be maintained for 15+ years.

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

2011 means it's probably DDR3, which is still fairly affordable

[–] wulrus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

wow, you are right! I didn't bother to check this whole time of needless suffering, but for what I earn with it in less than an hour I could probably buy 2x8 GB DDR-3, lol!

It just seemed a fair assumption that it would be insanely expensive ...