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I’m bored, so I’m charging my ~16-year-old iPad from when I was really young. You can ask me stuff about it or just talk about your old electronics :)

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[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Been using my dad's MacBook from 2009 (that he had obtained from a pawn shop long ago) as a secondary laptop. Had tried to update the existing OS, but it was too old, Apple had already abandoned it, so I installed Linux Mint XFCE. Now it's modern again. Slow as hell for some tasks like browsing the web, but it's the memory that's the bottleneck, planning to go from the stock 2GB to 4GB or 8GB soon, which will fix that, possibly another SSD later too.

[–] 01189998819991197253 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Did something similar to a 2012 MacBook Pro. It has enough ram to handle LMDE (slowish, but still). It would be my daily, but those things are too heavy for backpack travel.

Edit. I did swap out the HDD for an SSD. Still stock battery, which can't hold a charge worth anything, but a replacement costs more than I paid for the whole MBP.