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> I hear this sort argument a lot. But I never hear of anyone doing it, that is working on a 15 yr old computer for a while. I imagine with Linux it might not b
by com2kid 9y ago
> I hear this sort argument a lot. But I never hear of anyone doing it, that is working on a 15 yr old computer for a while. I imagine with Linux it might not be too bad.
The Internet has made this infeasible. Everything has moved online, and 90% of online resources have grown very bloated, though Wikipedia would probably still work well.
Security is another problem. Windows XP would work fine if you can find 15yr old hardware that still functions (hardware rot is a real thing), but the number of 0 days out there is far too high.
All that said, I wonder if any Shoutcast streams still exist. I'm using Youtube Live for the same thing now days (orders of magnitude more CPU being used!).
Coding would work fine, except the old IDEs don't support newer C++ standards, and I'm accustom to my niceties in life, but if you can ignore that, life would be fine for writing code. Modern web platforms wouldn't work that well, writing code would work OK, but the resultant webapps wouldn't run that well.
- gh02t 9y ago> All that said, I wonder if any Shoutcast streams still exist. I'm using Youtube Live for the same thing now days (orders of magnitude more CPU being used!). Shoutcast is still around, at least as a protocol via Icecast. I dunno if it's still being used for widespread public streams, but I know people still use MPD + Icecast to stream their personal music collections.
- jpindar 9y agoShoutcast is the preferred method for both live performances and recorded music in Open Sim type virtual worlds, since it's supported in the viewers, although I often copy the stream url into Winamp.
- yeahsure 9y agoMost of the FM stations in my city (in Argentina) have a shoutcast stream to listen online.
- njarboe 9y agoI was running a windows XP system from 2007 at home until a few months ago. The push to upgrade came finally cam from not having a reliable pdf reader for some pdfs and the fact the last browser still getting security upgrades for XP, firefox, was no longer going to be supported this September. A side benefit to upgrading is now I can buy a modern color laser printer and get out from under the expensive HP ink nightmare. The computer is now running Linux Mint just fine.