• TheEntity@lemmy.world
      28·
      11 days ago

      Given how maimed the modern laptops are, I’m willing to consider “modern” a slur for laptops. Give me back my Ethernet, video outs and all the USB!

      • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        11·
        11 days ago

        Give me back my Ethernet

        Some ThinkPad: I have Ethernet
        Buyer: Cool! I am choosing you!
        Package arrives
        Unpacks
        Buyer: What the… there’s no Ethernet!
        Some ThinkPad: Look closer! There’s even Ethernet icon!
        Buyer: I see that, but there’s just…
        Some ThinkPad: That’s it! ThinkPad Ethernet extension port. You didn’t say “RJ-45”.

    • PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk
      8·
      11 days ago

      I have a laptop for uni work that I bought in Jan 2011. It’s got Lubuntu running on it and most of my work is done on Google Docs… so I’m not seeing the benefit of upgrading really.

      It works.

        • PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk
          2·
          11 days ago

          I’ve got it installed, but in fairness the nearly-fourteen year old laptop takes a fair while to start the application now.

          I’m not a huge fan of Google as a company, but Google Docs is a fairly decent cloud-based app that’s largely agnostic to the low specs of my laptop.