2y ago

Anyone else use their crappy old laptops to host servers? lol

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My laptop for home use is almost 15 years old. My desktop is almost 11 years old. My work laptop is 8 years old. Here they are talking about more modern and powerful equipment, defining them as obsolete. I don't know, maybe we should start questioning if these consumption dynamics are a bit harmful.
- I can even run the latest Stable diffusion models on my 8 year old GPU.
- based and sustainability-pilled
- So what's loading up a YouTube video like? 100% ram and CPU usage constantly?
  
  youtube is older than most of his/her machines ;)
  
  The website maybe, but not the browsers and their video players.. >;)
  
  browsers are not the only way to watch YouTube ... mpv is older than most of his machines ;)
  but yeah - i get the point
  nevertheless there is a lot you can do with aged hardware - there are lots of desktops/windowmanagers which will happily run as well
  
  mpv is older than most of his machines ;)
  As someone who first started to load programs into his computer with a cassette tape recorder, I'm aware of that.
  browsers are not the only way to watch YouTube
  Between that and apps on a phone, nothing else comes even close in the percentage of usage for viewing a video on the internet.
  but yeah - i get the point
  Thanks. ]:D
  
  As someone who first started to load programs into his computer with a cassette tape recorder, I’m aware of that.
  so you're older than his machines as well .... see - they are not that(!) old ;) :D :D
  i love my thinkpad x1 3rd gen and wouldn't swap it for anything until it crumbles to dust :D
  
  It's not so much about the age, but about the mileage.

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