What's the best use cases for an old 2011 laptop?
>>>/tpg/
>>108783544>>>>/tpg/I mean other laptops from 2011 that uses Sandy Bridge Intel processor
>>108783540Turn it into a home media streaming server
>>108783540Yes, the thinkpad is a time machine.
Posting on 4channel dot org from the comfort of a couch typing on a magnificent keyboard, as I am doing currently.
>>108783540Becoming a tinker tranny and posting on /g/.
>>108783624And what are you doing?
>>108783540programming + using mpv to watch tranimethis is truly all a man needs
>>108783540>Sandy Bridge Librebooting it, wiping your ass on it, and selling it on markup to the next schmuck who fell for the ThinkPad meme 10 years too late.
2011 is still new
>>108783654Don't forget about hydrus
>>108783654>watch tranimei only watch r-rated movies
>>108783684what was the point of what you just said?
My T61 is currently a dedicated IRC and notification machine.Also runs youtube-dlp every 24 hours.It has like 140 days of uptime and has failed like once and it was the original charger that died.19 years and still going...
>>108783783what os do you run?
>>108783624That is so 2015 unc, this is the AI board bro
>>108783792Mint XFCE.
>>108783783>YtdlpKek. I guess if you leave it on its own fo 24 hours it doesn't matter how many hours and how much electricity it uses for that one .mp3 file you've been searching for since middle school
>>108783540I would dig through the hard drive to see if there's any old porno that I dled back then and forgot about
>>108783840It mostly downloads from a list of youtube channels to a NAS for me to watch them because youtube subscription tab is fucked and wont show new videos.
>>108783619Same. Bless this T420.
>>108783540filling up a trashcan, 2012 laptops however...
>>108783540i use my t420 to study at the library, it works well idk how 6 tabs on firefox and a pdf open on zathura consumes only 2gb of ram on that thing, but it doesi have 8gb and i dont remember the last time i used swap, it works really well
>>108783540Posting from bed is all I ever use mine for
>>108783540I used to be able to play WoW at 60fps on my x230 years ago @ low settings on Linux but now games don't even boot, I also have issues with hardware decoding videos that I never used to get. I'm sure there are solutions to these things but it's very frustrating
>>108783540Gravity demonstratorRetrofaggery
>>108784269https://github.com/CachyOS/proton-cachyosuse environment variable PROTON_DXVK_SAREK=1
>>108784315thank you ill try it on warmane. I also found out some stuff about the hardware decoding apparently the last release of libva-intel-driver doesnt have a specific fix for wayland that was commited but never built so all the packages for it are broken, and libva broke wayland support since 2.22 and you need to downgrade that also to 2.21. all aids but at least I can fix it.
>>108784355you can also use dxvk-sarek with vanilla wine if you don't like proton
>>108784417but vulkan perf is disappointing at best on ivy because certain hardware features are emulated I guess
>>108783587Not so good for it. Old Intel iGPU can't accelerate 4k or encoding/decoding AV1/h265.
>>108783587>Turn it into a home media streaming serverUse it as a samba server
I used to use a Thinkpad 420 for work, at least until the end of 2022 when I migrated over to my M1 Macbook Air.Mostly did "office tasks." Email. Web. Minor graphic work with Inkscape. Ran fine. Don't recall moments of sluggishness. I imagine it would handle fine today had I not switched.I think I ran Ubuntu Mate on it.
>>108784514the stock i5-2540M in the t420 is 3 times faster than my current main laptopyou really dont need much computer to do basic tasks like browsing the web or watching youtube videos
>>108783540>shitposting machine>retro game emulator>watch movies+TV shows+anime>programming>writing>photoshop via GIMP>internet radio>porn
>>1087836712011 was 15 years ago
>>108783540>t420upgrade its cpu to the 4-core version, it'll make it almost as fast as a t480 and with surprisingly small battery life penalty.
>>108783540I run a t430 completely offline as a direct interface with my 3d printers. Files are safe as theres no weefee card and webcam/speaker in it. Its fun to play around with.
my shitty nu-intel t14 is catching fire. has 32 gigs too. i want to break it so bad
>>108783540Hobby and fun tinkering like a 67 camaro
Still good for light work
>>108783540I'm typing on that laptop right now.
>>108786320me too.
>>108783783What kind of notifications require a whole-ass PC?
>>108783540Explain what you need to do that an X230 can't handle.
>>108784044I regret selling my x230
>>108786985I need to play gamesnot even new games, but games that came out in 2007
>>108783540My daily driver is a thinkpad x220 tablet, so basically everything. Slap a light linux distro on an SSD, throw in some more ram, you've got a desert island laptop right there.
Drill a hole through the center of the bottom chassis.Go to a coffee shop. Put your dick in it and close the lid so no one can see your dick.Wait for an Indian guy to enter the coffee shop. Get his attention by asking him if he can debug your Java.When he walks over, open the lid and show him your dick.When he is disturbed, tell him you have +1 Izzat
>>108783674I fucking love hydrus but I spend all my time going down an autistic rabbit hole of trying to make my tags consistent across boorus that have slight differences in how they'd describe Spyro the Dragon shitting into a Subway sandwich bun.
>>108783540You can still do a lot on old hardware. I'm in the process or reviving an old laptop of mine from 2014, 4GB of RAM and all. Of course new video games aren't viable, but anything more retro, internet browsing, most software in general... it works. Thinking of going with Lubuntu ou Ubuntu MATE to have a lightweight DE, while still having many software options.
>>108787647>You can still do a lot on old hardwareYou can but why would you when a 5 year old laptop in decent condition is like $200
This was the noblest ThinkPad of them all.All the slim ultrabooks save only heDid that they did in envy of great keyboards;He only, in a general honest buildAnd common good to all who typed in fury,Made one of them.His life was gentle, and the elementsSo mix’d in him — magnesium frame, classic TrackPoint,legendary keyboard, and that glorious red dot —That Nature might stand upAnd say to all the world, “This was a ThinkPad!”
>thread about ancient hardware from 15 years ago>stinkpadders everywherekek
>>108787832Well the average laptop dies after 5 years so its not a surprise.
>>108786052there was no need to make me feel old again
>>108783540I keep my x220 in the kitchen and look up stuff while i make food. It's also a useful backup being something like 6th string on the bench. Still works fine for web browsing and scripting
>>108784044it seems the 2011 keyboard came in handy at least
>>108783540Using them 10 years ago.I remember grabbing an X220 in 2017 to use for my university work and it was dogshit slow then. I can't imagine now.best laptop keyboard I've ever typed on though. bashed out many essays on mine.The one in my Legion 7 I'm typing this on is fucking terrible so Lenovo definitely lost it.
>>108784044What a sexy ass laptop
>>108787773where's the fun in that?
>>108787792are the ebay refurbished thinkpads ($100) worth it? they charge higher for the t400 series
>>108787832My 11 years old ASUS laptop is barely functional since 10 years ago./tpg/ isn't wrong about how fragile non-business laptops are.
>>108787832you can only pick from the living
>>108788209only if you don't care about speed or battery life and have a deep, almost erotic appreciation for the old thinkpad look
>>108783540Not quite 2011 but I still use my Toshiba Satellite E45t daily to watch youtube and browse 4cuck and do some programming or cooming. It runs Debian like a dream. It's crazy how much extra life you can get out of an old laptopt with Linux.
Is XFCE wayland stable yet and does it require xwayland? I wanna use it on my thinkpad, I'm using a tiling wm right now which is fine but it's a little finicky when I want to use it's dock. I also don't like using a tiling wm without a trackpoint on my keyboard. I don't wanna use x11/xlibre because I don't like it I find just being able to run the wm by typing its name and not worrying about compositors and shit like that very convenient
>>108783540distraction free writing device > no internet> no gui> boots straight into a text editor of your choice
>>108783540Is this a T420? As long as you max out the RAM, which is fairly inexpensive to do, it's not a bad computer - just heavy and the battery doesn't last a long time.I have one like that that I leave plugged in. I used to use it all the time, but have since bought a much lighter, more modern thinkpad for daily use. The clunky 2011 thinkpad handles recurring or long-running tasks, since it's always on.
>>108783540I use an x200 to sync my files with syncthing. It has an ethernet port so its perfectI also have an X520 which has a good cpu, its even replacable to a very good one, and the expresscard slot could be used for gpu passthrough for the exp gdc. it would be great for gaming
Dedicated Tails/Kali computer
>>108787179Fuck you bloody bitch fuck!
>>108783540Use it to run your own private SMTP and XFTP encrypted messaging server over TOR with its own designated Ash's beverages TOR onion addresses.
>>108783654dis niggah watches cartoons kek>>108789771>Use it to run your own private SMTP and XFTP encrypted messaging server over TOR with its own designated TOR onion addresses.*
>>108789655>mfw its more practical to backup over wifi than usb 2.0
>>108789488got a t420 for daily use and now 3 years later my greatest critique how heavy it is.
>>108783540go to Japan.
>>108783654>tranimeYou're looking for "Anime, America"?
>>108790202>go to Japan.Hiroshima is the great place to live, duh
>>108787773not that anon but if you already have the older laptop then it cost 0. Unless you upgrade the older laptop like i did to my old toshiba
