cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/nonpolitical_comics/p/1654790/alexkrokus-elders
"All I can really do anymore is browse the Internet and maybe stream some music."
"And that's enough for me, old friend."
this post was submitted on 12 Jan 2026
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It's the opposite for me. Using a modern browser is a real struggle, but running old games, watching DVDs and listening to MP3s? As good as ever!
That comic must be 10 years old, because 10 years old laptops these days would be drawn ripped and making pushups
10 years old would be 7th Gen Intel which is perfectly capable.
For anyone else budget conscious: you can get excellent laptops by looking for an 8th gen Intel laptops in pristine condition on eBay for <Β£150. This will be perfect for daily use, web, office, etc. If you need gaming then get a used Steam Deck OLED. This is suitable computing for a huge number of people's usecase.
If you are in the USA and are on public assistance, then https://pcsrefurbished.com/sales/salesHome is a great place, especially for laptops. My last laptop from here is a HP Zbook 15 Fury G8 with a Nvidia RTX A2000 for $175.
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My home server has a 12 year old cpu, and that bad boy just keeps chugging along running 24/7.
I just lost my ATI X1950XT yesterday after I bumped it installing a replacement HDD into my home servers raid cluster. RIP 20 year old GPU, you had a commendable service life
Mine's a 2006 HP Z600 workstation, proudly serving punk rock and The Room (2003) 24/7 on demand to me and me only, because neither my family or my friends want punk rock or The Room (2003)
Anyway, how's your sex life?
my PC is a 2013 HP. 4 years ago I got fancy and bought a gtx 1070ti. both are enough for me and have been running well.
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I put Linux mint on my 2016 laptop. It runs great.
2016? But the comic said ten year old lapto.... Fuck
It keeps getting worse, too. The nineties wasn't that long ago. I swear.
Just one decade or sth.
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Right?
10 year old isnβt that old - 20 is the new 10
I love how affectionate this comic is. I'm really feeling for the old laptop, but I'm feeling the appreciation and understanding from the human
He's just a little guy doin his best!
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Plug your old laptops into your living room TV, buy a wireless mouse/keyboard combo, and youβve got the ultimate media machine that you have full control over. I always do this whenever I move.
Iβve thought about how any old pc would blow all those proprietary devices out of the water with their flexibility to play anything, any format, any source. And Iβve also thought I currently have too many old laptops. No idea how I didnβt put two and two together until your comment. Thank you!
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My laptop I bought new in 2012 is running my Jellyfin server. And working great.
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Somebody give that poor thing Linux already! D:
Laptop afterwards: From the moment I understood the weakness of the batch, it disgusted me.
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What, why would a 10yo laptop struggle to play music? Or even a 20yo laptop, if the comic is a bit older already. Apart from the battery of course, but those take years to go tired, not decades.
And with those RAM prices - I for one am happy with my 13yo laptop.
It's running Windows 11.
My dual core thinkpad struggles hard with windows or youtube. Twitch is impossible on it even on linux mint. The biggest problem is no hardware decoding for modern codecs. The crappy dual core can't handle the software decoding. I think it's about 13 years old now.
Words of wisdom from my father, an engineer:
"The computer isn't any slower than the day you bought it. Only your expectations of it have changed."
It's not the hardware that's the issue. The software keeps getting slower and more bloated because most programmers don't know how to write well optimized code anymore.
No, they definitely do know how to write faster software. Theyβre just not paid for that. Theyβre paid to write software faster, thatβs all.
That falls under the category of "expectations." Run software contemporary to your machine and it'll fly just as fast as it ever did. Go ahead, slap Windows 98 on that bad boy.
My C-64 still boots up instantly, just as it did on day one. Far faster than Windows could ever dream.
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This is a lot more true now than it was in the olden days of hard drive fragmentation and rapidly increasing minimum spec requirements. (For instance the computer my family bought in 1996 had a mind blowing 16mb of ram, Win ME released in 1999 with a 32mb RAM requirement.)
The laptop I use daily is 16 years old and still going fine.
Fuck it do the linux meme and make it into a web server!
I suggest MPD i love using old hardware to stream my music around the house
My main laptop is 11 years old.
poor old fan noises
They're not old, they're veterans, and probably running fine
Meanwhile I had 2 year old Segotep case fans start to rattle on startup
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still rocking the x230 from 2013 π
got my xps 9560 and enough parts to make her run for another two decades.
Ten years? Up until recently I had a Core2Duo with 1GB RAM running Qobus in as a jukebox in the bedroom. But now he's gone, off to a better place, where he can finally rest. By which I mean I upgraded to 4GB and installed at a relative's house running Home Assistant.
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This is my 16 year old laptop.
Looks so pleasant in the last panel like "awwwwyiss, still got it~"
Fresh OS install can do wonders. Especially if you switch to a lower resource intensive one.
Man, one more year, then my ThinkPad T25 will be 10 years old. It's still my workhorse that I use every day, and you can pry it from my cold, dead hands when I die.
10? I'm using a 14 year old laptop for school and it gets through it quite well, even the original battery still does 3 hours.
My laptop is over ten years and it's still my main driver for work. I don't see the issue, it's not like I need suddenly other hardware if I do the same stuff.
I have a ten year old laptop as my NAS. It has some issues sometimes but it was a pretty cool project for tech I barely used anymore. Now I use it every day.
My Lenovo Y500 laptop from 2012 is still running. Windows 8.1 has surprisingly little memory footprint & runs all my old windows applications. The speakers are pretty much gone & I had to swap my old HDD to a SATA SSD in 2023.
This thing's bulky, but it never let me down. They really don't build things like they used to.
My laptop is 9 years old this summer and it's an absolute beast. It never gives me any trouble
I have another that's 7 years old and was crappy from day one
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