I’m bored, so I’m charging my ~16-year-old iPad from when I was really young. You can ask me stuff about it or just talk about your old electronics :)

  • FrederikNJS ( FrederikNJS@piefed.zip ) English
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    7 months ago

    I recently bought a cheap 5th gen Intel NUC and installed Batocera on it. Now I actually get to play some of the Nintendo 64 and PlayStation 1 games that I never had the chance to play as a kid, due to never owning a console

  • whotookkarl ( whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English
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    7 months ago

    My favorite old electronics are a Geiger counter I have no idea if it’s calibrated or accurate, and an ebow it’s like a little metallic resonator you can put on a guitar with metal strings to make it sound like it’s played with a bow like a violin, cello, etc. I’ve also got an old tablet too but not 16 years old that’s retro maybe at this point.

  • Rhaedas ( Rhaedas@fedia.io ) 
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    7 months ago

    Been using my dad’s MacBook from 2009 (that he had obtained from a pawn shop long ago) as a secondary laptop. Had tried to update the existing OS, but it was too old, Apple had already abandoned it, so I installed Linux Mint XFCE. Now it’s modern again. Slow as hell for some tasks like browsing the web, but it’s the memory that’s the bottleneck, planning to go from the stock 2GB to 4GB or 8GB soon, which will fix that, possibly another SSD later too.

  • hansolo ( hansolo@lemmy.today ) English
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    7 months ago

    There’s an old tower of mine in my parents house last used in 2003. Next time I’m there I plan to pull the HD and see what’s on there, recycle the rest.

    The HD crashed and I had to reformat maybe 3 months before it got mothballed, so not expecting much. But it might be worth the $15 for a cable.