I installed VoidLinux on a 17 year old laptop with 2GB of DDR2

Is that like teaching grandpa factorio?

Nah, our little tech buddies love being dragged from purgatory and made useful again. Revive and use your old hardware!

I don't know why this comic makes me so sad. Every time I see it it feels more and more sad.

*20 years old laptop. The ten years old is as old as this meme. Computer tech progress slowed down in the last 10 years.

My 10yo laptop is still going pretty strong...

My old laptop became my router. Now it never gets to sleep. Getting my moneys worth until I need faster than GE.

My refurbished 2011 Lenovo W530 Thinkpad with 24GB from college has been running as a proxmox cluster node for the last year at least! No battery, the replacement died years ago. 🤣

10 years old is 2016. That's not that old. I still have multiple devices from 2017 going strong, and they don't feel old.

Man, I just remembered my little old music player, maybe I could find it again.

Sometimes, old machines are survivors. Beware of confirmation bias when trash/thrift-picking cheap systems though. IMO, Thinkpads can be tough as a coffin nail. Including work systems, I'm on number 8 at this point with no hardware failures in sight.

That said, I have a very lightweight Acer that's about a decade old with the worst keyboard and trackpad ever manufactured. It also performs like a slug, even with Linux on it. Still, it refuses to break so I can get rid of it.

I wonder how many people don't realize thermal throttling is likely contributor to their old laptop slowing down.

The occasionally blast of compressed air and replacing the 6 year old dried out thermal paste does wonders.

Some parts of my pc are over 20 now.

I swear the old laptop looks older than the last time I saw this meme. He looks older right?

Ipod (classic) Gen 4

It does feel like that yeah. But honestly it would probably still be pretty fast if the GPU driver support didn't cease. Being on the integrated GPU has made the thing age another 10 years, that piece of shit was already horrendously slow when the Laptop was new