Remake of an older meme, just to add some extra pixel.
10 years old is rookie numbers
My PC is over 20 years old. I’ve only needed to replace the GPU twice, motherboard/ram twice, power supply once, and am on my third hard drive.
Ah, the computer of Theseus. My 20year old server of Theseus only has the chassis left of original parts. And an unplugged floppy and DVD drive xD
That’s basically the story of my desktop too.
3rd PSU, 3rd motherboard and processor, 3rd graphics card, case fans, etc., but I still have the original dvd drive (which is unplugged). All in a BTX Antec P180 case I bought in 2007. The power button keeps falling out now, so it might be time to replace it too. But with the price of ram, it’ll be a straight parts swap.
Commendations on the shop. Very clever.
This chonky boy is 19 this year. He has dual Xeon quad cores, and 32gb of DDR2 and a 980Ti. He streams 4K videos with ease and plays most of my Steam library. He’s running Mint. And he eats about 425W while he does it.
And he eats about 425W while he does it.
Chonky boy hungers
That era of precisions was so good. I used a T7500 from around 2010 until a couple years ago
That’s sick! I ran a precision workstation 390 all the way up until 2016 before I finally decided to build myself a PC after years of building them for friends.
Just recently I built a backup-backup server out of a 2009 AMD Athlon CPU. Tried to run a DB via docker on it but could not as the CPU does not support newer instructions used by docker
what is recommended cheap ass laptop to install mint on? Something I can get used or refurbished
The older Dell Latitude models are quite nice IMO. Like the 5000 series ones.
You can snag them for fairly cheap from Free Geek on eBay.
thanks will look into them! looks like Dell Latitude 5420, Intel Quad-Core i5-1145G7, 16GB DDR4 RAM, 256GB SSD, for about $250 will be an upgrade to be 10year old lenovo!
lol I got a Dell Latitude 5420 with nearly the same specs, mine only came with 8GB of ram so I upgraded it to 32GB. I did that though almost 2 years ago when prices were sane though.
I’ve also loaded mine with Kubuntu, it came with Linux Mint though which was cool.
you still run Kubuntu on your dell? Other folks will have to use it and mint is straight forward to use so I will just go with that again. I did find a better price through for about $160 shipped through free geek but now I gotta get a charger. It arrives this week so excited :)
Oh yeah it’s still running Kubuntu, I haven’t had any issues with it so I haven’t bothered to switch to a different distro.
That’s a damn good deal you’re getting
Having to buy the charger aftermarket ain’t an issue IMO, it just means that it’ll be availible for longer in their store lol
I will say though that the laptop might have an odd feature that may catch you up like it did me, if left off for a clike a week it will need plugged in to power on. This is a battery saving feature of those Dell Latitudes (it may be on other models too, IDK) but basically it flips a relay to disconnect the battery and prevent it from killing the battery. It only happens when it’s been sitting off though, so if you keep using it it won’t trip.
10? That’s a rookie number.
A 10 year old high end or midrange PC isn’t even that slow today. Perfectly usable
Much better than whatever 8GB of ram toy crapple releases in 2026
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My GTX 1080 sounds like it’s about to explode but still provides adequate performance.
10 year old pc sounds like ancient tech, but its from 2016, time goes fast 👴
10 years, that’s like, 1995!
Using a 11 years old 300€-laptop with 15 years old Ubuntu installation as my main private PC.
Honestly, feels more snappy than ever compared to my brand new Core-i9 2000€ company laptop running Microslop including an increasing amount of mandatory business and security addons…
Sorry, but continuously analyzing all running processes, blocking half of them, and rerouting all of your TLS traffic through a MITM proxy with self-signed certs that break 25% of your software is 100% necessary to ensure the confidentiality of business secrets. And what would our KPIs be without our company-sponsored keyboard logger and mouse tracker?
Also, our internal process relies on this software from 1973 with endless half-baked additions that takes 10 minutes to open, uses 32GB of ram, and idles at 80% cpu and 90% disk iops for some reason.
No, you can not have permissions to delete the icons on your desktop or rearrange your taskbar. Stop asking.
Add to that doing field work with slow and unreliable internet, and it literally takes 30 seconds to open the context menu in explorer. Gotta wait for corporate.exe to time out first. At least opening the start menu doesn’t literally take 30 seconds anymore, after a regedit change to stop it from searching online first.
And then the IT department announced that they are finally replacing our obscure, archaic “VPN solution”. I asked, “you are building the new solution on top off WireGuard, right? 😊”
IT: … … 😊
Me: … … 🥲
They ended up BUYING ANOTHER “VPN SOLUTION” INSTEAD 😭
to be fair, those stupid expensive “solutions” are always the bosses’ idea.
No kidding. In our case, their hands are even more tied, since we are required by law to outsource it to the cheapest possible provider. I’m just disappointed that my country and agency are so poorly informed on how much cheaper and self reliant using open source solutions such as WireGuard and Linux would be.
Note for second (or more) language speakers of English (and maybe a few first language folks as well): The plural ‘s’ is omitted when a sentence fragment is turned into an adjective. It’s supposed to have hyphens in it as well, though these are often left out.
So, for example, “My PC is ten years old and runs Linux” becomes “My ten-year-old PC runs Linux”.
In the case of this meme, it should be “My 10-year-old PC”.
