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    [–] WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social 3 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

    I wonder what happened to the 15(?) year old laptop at my mum and dads house…could anything be achieved with that?

    [–] skarn@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

    Put in a SSD and you'll be surprised how far it can get you.

    My father is still using a 13 year old 14" Dell I gave up 6 years ago. He's even using it with windows 10, and having a SSD it works almost bearably well. They keyboard broke, and with the laptop not being Win11 compatible, he asked for an upgrade.

    I got him a 6 year old Thinkpad, but I'll install Mint and give him a VM for the few SWs he needs Windows for.

    [–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 3 points 14 hours ago

    And also put in as much RAM as possible.

    [–] velkiera@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago

    Not a bad chance. Worth looking into imo

    [–] cron@feddit.org 3 points 16 hours ago

    Surely you could do something with it, but it probably has less power than a current raspberry pi.

    [–] azha@lemm.ee 3 points 16 hours ago

    You can use it to self host maybe