R. L. Dane  Nov 26, 2023

Me, watching my "severely underpowered" #PinebookPro blow through several small package installs in about one second:

Umm... I'm thinking that there simply is NO SUCH THING as a "slow" computer anymore. Don't @ me from your thirty-two-core space heater. ;)

Show threadAmin Hollon 🏳Nov 26, 2023

@rl_dane
Mine's only 12-core, a total of 16 threads. ;)

It definitely ripped through my grandparents' multi-thousand-picture photo collections pretty fast to find duplicates, I've got to give it that. Most of the time it's overkill, though.

Show threadsotolf
@amin @rl_dane Mine has 2 cores, 4 gb of memory, and for most things it's more than fast enough, people love to blast their high end systems as if it's something to be proud of, they just spent more money for something they only maybe need, unless they do webdev and actually nned it for their bloated stacks :p
Nov 26, 2023 at 9:39pmWeb
Show threadAmin Hollon 🏳Nov 26, 2023
@sotolf @rl_dane
I've got a laptop with that processing power / memory too; works just fine.
Show threadsotolfNov 26, 2023
@amin @rl_dane but you're not using it as your main machine.. I have a 286 with dos and a monochrome screen as well..
Show threadR. L. Dane  Nov 26, 2023

@sotolf @amin

Do you really?

I'm jelly.

Show threadsotolfNov 26, 2023
@rl_dane @amin well, I do, but it's at home in norway, it's a laptop too, although it has no battery, and heavier than sin, unless my dad got rid of it when he moved. It's fun with old hardware :)
Show threadR. L. Dane  Nov 26, 2023

@sotolf @amin

I really, REALLY wish I still had my Pentium 166 MMX Dell Latitude XpiCDMMX #CHONKBOOK.

That thing was GLORIOUS. And I'm pretty sure I could get it running under #NetBSD or #OpenBSD, or possibly a handful of "I will deign to recognize the IA32 architecture" Linux distros. ;)