India's repair culture gives new life to dead laptops

Re:India's repair culture gives new life to dead laptops by linacica on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @06:46AM (#43620201)

I would like to point out 20 years old it's was in 2005, which isn't very old imo,

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Re:India's repair culture gives new life to dead laptops by wink on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @09:46AM (#43621732)

Some stuff is usable, but not fun.

I have a Centrino laptop from 2004, and it's single core, with 1.5GB RAM and, of course, spinning rust.

It works, but even playing a video on youtube can be taxing. I'm not arguing for "performance" tasks here, just sitting on the couch and surfing, and clicking random links.

Then again my home server is a 2013 i5 that does everything it needs to do (except be super power efficient). So I'd say ~10-14 years is the sweet spot, but 20 is historic and mostly useless, sadly

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Re:India's repair culture gives new life to dead laptops by anthk on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @10:08AM (#43621961)

Mpv + yt-dlp + https://alex.envs.net/dillectory

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