• bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net
    7·
    10 hours ago

    I rocked a Packard Bell PII, frankensteining boards sans case with RedHat Linux 1996-2004-ish, and it rendered of that gen C++ and Java openGPL SO much faster than lab boxes the university paid 5 figures for from SGI and Solaris.

    Edit: I miss VTWM SO MUCH… I want an infinitely self-scriptable window manager again 😭

  • sibannac@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    12 hours ago

    I just finished Badurs Gate 3 on a gaming laptop I got from a yardsale a decade ago. Victory is bittersweet and a slideshow.

  • Fuckswearwords@lemmy.world
    7·
    12 hours ago

    My Haswell box gave out last year. Didn’t bother trying to revive it cause it wasn’t cost effective. Gave me a good 9 years of service though. Anyone want an rx580?

    • kersploosh@sh.itjust.worksOPM
      4·
      10 hours ago

      It’s been a long time for me. My peak PC gaming days were spent playing Warcraft II head-to-head with a friend over a modem. That was on a Macintosh Performa 550. I also had a ton of fun playing Myst and Flashback. I stuck to consoles after that.

      Now the only gaming in my house is my kids playing Minecraft on a Dell OptiPlex 5040 that I saved from the dumpster at work because I’m a cheapskate. No dedicated GPU, 8GB RAM, but it gets the job done.

      • TehBamski@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        8 hours ago

        a Dell OptiPlex 5040 that I saved from the dumpster at work because I’m a cheapskate.

        You are absolutely not a cheapskate for doing that. That’s being resourceful. You save money that way and can put it towards other things that matter more. Nothing wrong with that. Why spend a few hundred dollars for a new laptop/desktop when you can just get one used that will run for another 2-4 years before it dies?