cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/nonpolitical_comics/p/1654790/alexkrokus-elders
Is there any way I could turn this into a sticker (would go on my old ThinkPad T540p)?
this post was submitted on 12 Jan 2026
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"All I can really do anymore is browse the Internet and maybe stream some music."
"And that's enough for me, old friend."
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!
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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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 <£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.
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Looks so pleasant in the last panel like "awwwwyiss, still got it~"
Somebody give that poor thing Linux already! D:
Laptop afterwards: From the moment I understood the weakness of the batch, it disgusted me.
Where there is service, there is life.
My 12 year old Hackintosh MBP is doing great with Ubuntu. Mid-2014 machine and it's still my daily driver!
My stock 2016 MacBook is still running strong.
I recently revived an old EEEPC 1005P. I put Antix Linux on it and it's totally usable.
Firefox needed some tweaks (specifically reducing the process count) to make it run somewhat decently. It still doesn't do Youtube, but it works fine enough for programming in Kate, doing terminal stuff and other simple native apps. Electron apps are a bit of a pain on that thing.
It's a really nice little on-the-go device that I use to work on my hobby projects on the train when commuting to work. Super small, super light, 8h battery life.
Ah YouTube ain’t worth it anymore anyway.
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?
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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.
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Plug your old laptops into your living room TV, buy a wireless mouse/keyboard combo, and you’ve got the ultimate media machine that you have full control over. I always do this whenever I move.
I’ve 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 I’ve also thought I currently have too many old laptops. No idea how I didn’t put two and two together until your comment. Thank you!
Yeah, but maybe remove the battery if the thing can run without it just on mains power. Leaving a battery plugged in (especially an old one) is not the best idea.
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10 year old isn’t that old - 20 is the new 10
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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I daily a Dell Precision 690 in my living room.
I have a roughly 26 years old pentium III laptop still in working order. Those 256MB of memory are still going strong.
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 I bought new in 2012 is running my Jellyfin server. And working great.
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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.
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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.
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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The laptop I use daily is 16 years old and still going fine.
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. They’re just not paid for that. They’re paid to write software faster, that’s all.
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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
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
This is my 16 year old laptop.
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.
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.
Fresh OS install can do wonders. Especially if you switch to a lower resource intensive one.
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