“Repurposing old laptops is a one-time delay strategy, not a permanent infrastructure model. Take a 4-year-old laptop, for example. This device will have a battery operating at 50% capacity… or worse. Even if it gets updated with a fast, low-resource system designed to run smoothly on older or weaker computers, such as a lightweight Linux OS, that battery will swell, fail, or die completely within 12-24 months.”
jesus, are y’all really dealing with laptops where the battery will swell fail or die after 4 years + 24 months of use? that sounds insane, I have an 8+ year old Dell Inspiron that I hammer every day and whose battery can still hold a charge
“Repurposing old laptops is a one-time delay strategy, not a permanent infrastructure model. Take a 4-year-old laptop, for example. This device will have a battery operating at 50% capacity… or worse. Even if it gets updated with a fast, low-resource system designed to run smoothly on older or weaker computers, such as a lightweight Linux OS, that battery will swell, fail, or die completely within 12-24 months.”
jesus, are y’all really dealing with laptops where the battery will swell fail or die after 4 years + 24 months of use? that sounds insane, I have an 8+ year old Dell Inspiron that I hammer every day and whose battery can still hold a charge
…yeah I have yet to own a battery that lived past 3 years lol tbf I only ever had one swell, but yeah they do not last with me
Damn, guess I’ve reached the ‘back in my day!’ Phase of life, but I’ve definitely had devices last past 3 years