Time to reviving old laptop again!
This laptop is pre-installed Windows 7 and released in 2011, it's also considered an entry level laptop at that time, and it's somewhat holy laggy and unusable for modern things..
But what's totally knocked out technicians mind are.. Linux! And heck yeah, this is the third time I doing this...
The first time, I use Porteus KDE and the app is hella limited and confusing, the app store or documentation are incredibly hidden..
The second time, I tried to install some media server OS, I tried something like UmbrelOS and Yunohost, but I don't really need it, I'm just using something like Syncthing, and installed the self-hosting apps is kinda a struggle, but I guess?
And now I'm trying to install Arch with i3 as recommended by ChatGPT, and it turns out to have better performance and decent power to browsing, but installing apps is kinda slow, so I use Garuda Linux to max it out, and it's incredible. I get a lot of built-in useful apps, nice GUI tools to max the powers, especially the built-in settings like the touchpad (I can tap simpler, the two finger click and scrolls are working). Maybe sometimes, using apps like WhatsApp Web is incredibly slow, not very good for multi-tasking..
If I just have a new battery for the laptop (Right now it should be charged always), I would be using this as a daily driver, turns out I become an patient extremists-

#linux #oldlaptops #revive

Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers

https://colaptop.pages.dev/

#HackerNews #oldlaptops #lowcostservers #colocation #techreuse #sustainability

Currently reusing an old laptop from 10 years ago to get some schoolwork done. It doesn't have a battery though, and the power connection is starting to get a bit flakey. Feels like I'm playing Russian Roulette every time I move around or stand up; is my computer going to crash permanently and lose all my work, or am I going to make it another half-hour? Here's hoping...

#oldLaptops #studentlife

Transferred all my files from my 2014 Macbook Pro to a slightly newer 2019 Macbook Pro (the first model after they got rid of the "butterfly keyboard").

I'll miss my 2014 clunker. Its story tracks the last 10 years of my life (personal and professional).

It started as my work laptop during my time at a startup where I worked entirely too much and stressed myself out over literally everything - isn't that how you're supposed to be successful? I used it to learn React, a framework I still use (and mostly still love) today.

After that job collapsed, it became the device where I'd go to unplug from the world through long hours of watching anime / chess videos on YouTube. I programmed my second chess engine (https://github.com/tildedave/ra-chess-engine) using it, putting in a lot of good hours getting the board logic working during a beach trip to North Carolina, where I now live.

During the pandemic I used it to play through Hollow Knight, Celeste, and Undertale.

In its final phase of life, I used it mostly for watching long YouTube videos while doing long cooking sessions. It still performed well enough to solve the worst Advent of Code problems.

It's survived numerous food spills, a battery replacement, and some very aggressive interruption from my toddler when she wanted me pay attention to her 🙂

Thanks for everything, zwingli.

#thanks #oldlaptops

Installing #fedora silverblue 39 in an old Vostro 1400 with 4 Gb RAM. So far, 2 hrs, and it's 50% done. I'm still wondering if it will work at all.

Any comments or advice?
#linux #fedora39 #oldLaptops