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Elders [Alex Krokus] (lemmy.world)

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[–] Persen 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

            
              If it isn't hp, it can work for 20 years, but with hp laptops, you are lucky if it lasts for 8.
Btw, it works for phones too. I got my dad's redmi 4x from 2017 a month ago. It works suprisingly ok. I am planning to flash lineageos without gapps on it, to not have to use android 7. It should work for another couple of years.

[–] Valmond 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I know people doesn't like Redmi/Xiaomi, but man what a punch for the money, and "malware" have been inexistant up until very lately (deep malware are everywhere). I bought a (the FX) file explorer for like 5€, there is a totally ok free version too and that's the only thing I needed to have a nice experience (no pub, I know everything is probably tracked like on all phones).

Got the redmi note (pro?) 2 shipped from alibaba.com a long time ago for < 100€, then the 5, 7 etc.

Greatest value for sure, they all still work except the 5 that I went swimming with, I cracked the screen on the 7, ...

The older ones also had swappable batteries (3000 mAh too!) and SD card slot when the concurrences had like 32GB for OS + everything else.

I'm not a fanboi but my 4 year old phone for 250€ has 6GB RAM & 128 GB storage...

😎

[–] Persen 0 points 6 months ago

Well, their newer phones do have a lot of shady things (even the 4x video player demands weird permissions), new mis, especially 11 series are known for being unreliable. I particularly hate the bootloader unlock experience, waiting time, issues with the app (on pc and phone), no linux and USB3 support (I had to use a vm in an old laptop). BTW, I'm angry as today I didn't read the error messages properly and reset it. I wasted a day and now I have to wait another week (or more) to unlock it.

[–] RubberElectrons 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Nah, not business machines. I've made those last quite a while, even as an undergrad in engineering running simulations that were too heavy for what the machine could actually do.

Pro tip: need an impromptu white noise generator? Load up some COMSOL or Ansys.

[–] Persen 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Ok, I admit, I was overgeneralizing. So you mean EliteBooks and ProBooks or some old series, I'm not aware of?