• West_of_West@piefed.social
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    1 day ago

    My five year old laptop can still runs most games, (although it’s getting quirky) and my four year old cellphone is going strong. I see little reason to update and I hope to get another 3-5 years out of them, barring major hardware failure.

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      16 hours ago

      on games, it’s always worth pointing out that old games don’t magically stop being good just because new ones come out.
      If we completely stopped getting new games tomorrow, there’d still be enough games out there that you’d never run out of things to play, it’s just a matter of actually finding them.

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        14 hours ago

        Oh for sure. I rarely play new games because I don’t have the time and because I own a bunch of older games I haven’t got to yet(The exception being BG3).

        I will say older games are often graphically better in memory. Fired up Dragon Age 1 last week and it looks so old now.

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      15 hours ago

      Same. I recently changed the battery on my 6 year old laptop. Works still fine. No need to buy a new one

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        14 hours ago

        Me too! I hoped it would fix it from turning itself off when it isn’t plugged in. But it still isn’t working, so some other connection is naf.