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West_of_West@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

My five year old laptop can still runs most games, (although it’s getting quirky) and my four year old cellphone is going strong. I see little reason to update and I hope to get another 3-5 years out of them, barring major hardware failure.

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vaionko@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
5 years is nothing nowadays. I just upgraded from a 14 year old laptop to a 6 year old one, and the old one was still perfectly usable

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Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
on games, it’s always worth pointing out that old games don’t magically stop being good just because new ones come out.
If we completely stopped getting new games tomorrow, there’d still be enough games out there that you’d never run out of things to play, it’s just a matter of actually finding them.

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- West_of_West@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Oh for sure. I rarely play new games because I don’t have the time and because I own a bunch of older games I haven’t got to yet(The exception being BG3).
  
  I will say older games are often graphically better in memory. Fired up Dragon Age 1 last week and it looks so old now.
  
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  - Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    true, but then that doesn’t really have much to do with how old a game is, it’s mostly down to whether they put effort into the graphics.
    
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Tobsn@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Same. I recently changed the battery on my 6 year old laptop. Works still fine. No need to buy a new one

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- West_of_West@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Me too! I hoped it would fix it from turning itself off when it isn’t plugged in. But it still isn’t working, so some other connection is naf.
  
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  - Tobsn@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    I’m no expert, but have you tried to change the CMOS Battery? After I haven’t switched my laptop on for some time, it would bootloop 3-4 times before turning on. Changing the CMOS battery did fix it for me.
    
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    West_of_West@piefed.social ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Oh wow, I didn’t even know that was a thing. Looking it up that might be the fix. My computer can’t keep time or date which is one of the side effects of a dead CMOS.
    
    Thank you kind stranger!
    
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