#hardware

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Daimar Stein :tux: :comunista:@joojmachine@ursal.zone

I know most people are aware on how Linux can save old hardware, but here's to the folks that like to complain that GNOME is "bloated" and "runs poorly":

Today I salvaged this old laptop from going to the junk, added an old 4GB DDR3 RAM stick I had, popped the GNOME OS Nightly USB I had just to know what the specs were on this thing, and well... the GPU is dying a slow and painful death but damn, this runs really, really well for a 13 year old chip that was already close to e-waste by the time it was produced and a just as old and slow HDD.

I obviously won't keep using it as a desktop due to the screen, but I'm baffled at the optimization work that is going on these days that enables this to be actully smooth and usable on hardware this bad.

GNOME OS Nightly running on a 13 year old Lenovo G405 laptop with a faulty GPU.
Matt Vestengen-Cox@matt@oslo.town

A really niche bit of hardware that only does one very specific thing and nothing else and likely to be a brick in 5-10 years? 🤔

SIGN ME UP!! 🤣

Not going to lie; I kinda do want this NTS Radio Player that is literally three buttons for playing NTS 1, NTS 2, and the third spinny-button for playing one of their other 16 mixtape stations.

BUT WHY 😭 €130 😆

shop.nts.live/products/atonemo

A photo of some hardware. Its a little black box with a big red button for NTS 1, a big white button for NTS 2, and a dial which also acts as a button, I think, to play a mixtape from your choice of 16, represented by white icons around the dial.