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submitted 1 week ago by Sombyr@lemmy.zip to c/unixsocks

Bonus: My laptop.

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[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 12 points 1 week ago

Where is that USB cable going?

[-] Sombyr@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 week ago

To the phone I'm using to take the picture. I had it set up for tethering because I've got an XP partition that I don't want connected to the internet in any way (for reasons) so I'm not shoving a WiFi adapter in until I've bothered to block all internet access to the windows partition.

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 9 points 1 week ago

Oh yeah that makes so much more sense than what I had in my dirty mind xD

[-] Smorty 7 points 1 week ago

awww yea linux mind debian version, big fan!!! <3 i wondr what u do on pc like dis..

[-] Sombyr@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 week ago

Mostly play old games. Lutris runs oddly well and I have an XP partition for anything it won't run. I've also tried light web browsing, but somehow loading a modern web page takes more CPU power than the games I run and it's a terrible experience lol

[-] Smorty 8 points 1 week ago

yea that's the evil javascript having to run the entire time... these sites also run terribly on a raspberry pi so yeaaaa that's web devs fault for using too many weird libraries and frameworks ;(

[-] rainy@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago

cool project. it's super cool that u can run modern distros on smth like a pentium 4 lol... windows could never

[-] Sombyr@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago

Indeed, though it did take a few upgrades before it ran smooth enough for my tastes. Ironically I'm using mint over a more lightweight distro because it's the only one that ran correctly. All the lightweight ones I tried refused to recognize the GPU I shoved in it (which is reasonable, it's a very bizarre PCI version that wouldn't even run on XP without hacking the driver.)
It even runs a few old games via Lutris. Got Starseige: Tribes running on it smoothly. My goal is to use an XP partition on it to run most offline games, and use the linux partition to play any online games since it's more secure than XP.

[-] LongLive@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

The desk design is more modern than the hardware.

I am happy to see a thematically appropriate lamp and set of speakers.

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Itty 32bitty... I guess you're just in for the challenge because it's not hard to find Intel Core i3 prebuilds in e-waste even where I live.

[-] Sombyr@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

I actually went with this because it's the same PC I grew up with. Well, actually this is a more powerful model, but it's similar enough that it induces relentless nostalgia every time I turn it on.

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