dormcat wrote on 2022-03-15, 14:57:
Cuttoon wrote on 2022-03-15, 09:09:
E.g.: My mom had to upgrade from her trusted T500 core 2 due laptop because win xp just won't do any longer, because security, etc.
I assume that's a Lenovo ThinkPad T500
Correct - really fine accountant's tool. (very basic display, though.) Don't remember the exact specs and it's some 700 km away. 2.4 GHz and 4 GB RAM. Bought it used for really cheap (~250 €) in 2012 to replace an Athlon TB 800 from 2000. Installed a very fast conventional HDD and bootup time with Xubuntu is still perfectly adequate.
(300 € beeing an overall budget I could raise myself back then and that was easier than convincing mommy she really, really needed the 3rd old PC in her life.)
On a more philosophical note:
My folk are the people who drive their cars until they really, really fall apart. Later states of financial wellbeing don't help, I checked.
Mr. T500 had to go because the kids were worried about issues like home banking and online shopping, but no one could be bothered to upgrade the Thinkpad. The battery is weak and the fan might be on its way out.
I strictly refuse to touch any kind of Windows for any serious purpose - for all I care it's the evolutionary equivalent of a malevolent cancer.
And, why any of that might acutally matter: It's not like we Germans don't discuss resources and climate change, ad nauseam.
But the simple fact that roughly 99 % of actual computing today could be done with machines built by 2015 for the next ten years to come is pretty much taboo.
Other generations had world wars, great depressions or pandemics that killed healthy people.
We can't even be bothered to increase our inflated standard of living just a little bit slower, so the Chinese could keep up with bulding wind farms, or something like that.
Instead of arguing whether anything but netflix in 4k still agrees with human dignity. It's rather shameful in a way... 🙁