Comment on "You should probably just throw it away"

JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• phx@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  That and/or a big influx of vulnerable unpatched Windows machines…

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  • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Any unpatched windows machine can be patched into a Linux machine.

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  • PixelPinecone@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    This seems much more likely lol

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  • Retropunk64@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    …that’s why you turn them into Linux machines.

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• Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  You can literally buy new thinkpads with ubuntu pre installed for $140 dollars off the price of a windows PC

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  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    That’s cool, but a lot of people (myself included) aren’t able to justify a brand new laptop. I can absolutely afford a new laptop…I just have no desire to buy one when older ones work just fine and have plenty of life in them.

    My current laptop is a T495 that I bought at a flea market two years ago for $100 and it still handles all of my needs completely fine. My kid is using a T470 I bought not too long before that for around the same price, and it does everything he needs too (though it could stand to handle Minecraft JE a bit better…)

    If you aren’t doing high-end gaming or video editing, practically any computer can handle like 95% of other daily home computer tasks.

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I got a Framework a little while back for this reason… The modularity of it means that I can upgrade it piecemeal as needed without having to buy a brand new laptop, or suffer with outdated hardware before I can justify buying a new laptop.

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Oh I misread that and thought you said they thinkpads themselves were $140 lol

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• scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Very good point!

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