Mastodawn

My MacBook Pro is 4 years old, but it still works well. The battery is starting to degrade a bit, but overall it's acceptable. Still, I'm not sure I'll consider it reliable enough for much longer.

I was thinking that with my next laptop I'll do like Amélie: I’ll take a photo of it in every place I bring it, and I'll create a dedicated Fediverse account just for that purpose.

When I come up with ideas like this, I feel like the Nerd Barista…

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Michael

@stefano Uhh. I should have done that with my previous laptop, an HP probook. I got it in 2012, in my final year of school (german Gymnasium), and used it as my main computer for 10 years, throughout my Bachelor's degree, Master's degree and my first job at university, as well as for organizing multiple events in my free time. Originally it was running Windows 7, later Linux Mint and finally Arch Linux. It's still functional, although the battery is weak and it's quite clunky in today's terms.

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Elena Rossini ⁂1d ago

@uijft @stefano I used a MacBook Air for almost 12 years (as my main writing / email / web dev computer). It still works and holds up ok. I feel a little guilty having upgraded to an Air (M4) but it was time — and the performance difference is like night and day 🥲

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patpro 1d ago

@_elena
It’s very nice to be able to push the hardware to its limit. Unfortunately on the security side it can be a real problem as proprietary OS (macOS here) won’t provide older OS releases with security updates. It’s really a shame. In the end, one still can install a Linux distribution on older hardware, but given the state of the world, something should be done to impose extended proprietary OS security updates.

@uijft @stefano