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[-] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 week ago

2012 laptops are still very modern and people calling them old are mean :(

[-] TheEntity@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago

Given how maimed the modern laptops are, I'm willing to consider "modern" a slur for laptops. Give me back my Ethernet, video outs and all the USB!

[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 1 week ago

Give me back my Ethernet

Some ThinkPad: I have Ethernet
Buyer: Cool! I am choosing you!
Package arrives
Unpacks
Buyer: What the... there's no Ethernet!
Some ThinkPad: Look closer! There's even Ethernet icon!
Buyer: I see that, but there's just...
Some ThinkPad: That's it! ThinkPad Ethernet extension port. You didn't say "RJ-45".

[-] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I have a laptop for uni work that I bought in Jan 2011. It's got Lubuntu running on it and most of my work is done on Google Docs... so I'm not seeing the benefit of upgrading really.

It works.

[-] populustree 1 points 1 week ago
[-] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago

I've got it installed, but in fairness the nearly-fourteen year old laptop takes a fair while to start the application now.

I'm not a huge fan of Google as a company, but Google Docs is a fairly decent cloud-based app that's largely agnostic to the low specs of my laptop.

[-] Smorty 5 points 1 week ago

yes exactly!

stop being mean to my thinkpad friends! (those being, friends with thinkpads, and laptops themselves, which are automatically friends)

[-] sunoc@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago
[-] kittenzrulz123 2 points 1 week ago

Idk I use a T440p :3

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