Old but gold

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At the end of last year I did try to convince my father to continue using his old PC instead of buying a new one which can run Win11.
Sadly he was like "I do not want to try getting my software to work, I want to turn it on and it should run just like before.
I did not know how I could argue with a statement like this. How would you approach something like this?
What do you tell people to convince them to continue using there old Hardware?

I Installed Gentoo So You Don’t Havtoo - A popular expression in the Linux forums nowadays is noting that someone “uses Arc... - https://hackaday.com/2024/11/04/i-installed-gentoo-so-you-dont-havtoo/ #customization #installations #oldhardware #linuxhacks #initsystem #sourcecode #featured #useflags #compile #macbook #gentoo #source #linux

I Installed Windows 11 On This 20 Year Old PC

https://makertube.net/videos/watch/b27429e6-b8fb-4d21-ad0c-fb542189f446

Hallo #Berlin|er Fedimenschen!
Mein Kollege Rainer ( @horniger ) findet, dass es in Berlin ein Computermuseum bräuchte, weswegen er dafür gerade interessierte Menschen sucht, die das Vorhaben unterstützen oder sich gar aktiv einbringen möchten. :)

Hier sein Blogpost dazu mit allen Details:
http://horniger.de/museum/

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #vcf #vcfb #boost #retro #vintage #oldhardware #computer #museum

Über Boosts wird sich ebenfalls besonders gefreut! :)

slinging around 15GB of timelapse images and videos between computers is still a challenge even on a relatively modern home network….

I've come to the conclusion that unfortunately #footiMac simply won't be up to the task of creating month-long timelapses for all 3 cameras. Hardware acceleration simply doesn't appear to be supported with the old AMD RV470 based chip.

I just sent the archive over to my more modern 2018 iMac running MacOS X and ffmpeg happily used software/CPU for the mjepg and videotoolbox acceleration for the h264 “mjpeg (native) -> h264 (h264_videotoolbox)” on the first try.

It's encoding at 30fps, which is half-speed of the video itself, whereas #footiMac could barely manage 1fps. The IMac will be done in about 30minutes where #footiMac took 15 hours.

So ya... I'll have footiMac send over the timelapses to the iMac for processing.
#timelapse #ffmpeg #Mac #Debian #oldhardware

So... I remembered that I had this tablet. A lenovo Tab 2 A7-10F. It works, from all I can see.
... what could I do with this, though? Any ideas? The Android system on this is just ancient (Lollipop), it's not a high performer. But... it's a working device, too good to trash. What to do, what to do. #OldHardware #OldDogsNewTricks #LookingForIdeas #OldHardware #OldDogsNewTricks #LookingForIdeas