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While clean reinstalling my macOS last month, my recovery partition was lost - and I booted via internet recovery to MacOS Mavericks. Needless to say, I couldn

While clean reinstalling my macOS last month, my recovery partition was lost - and I booted via internet recovery to MacOS Mavericks. Needless to say, I couldn't even sign in with Apple ID via browser or app store because the world has moved on & these browsers can't work on modern webpages. (I had to use my phone concurrently to help me out with downloading rescue stuff & moving via USB or terminal)

adrianN 4y ago
Ten year old software is very different from ten year old hardware.
- srvmshr 4y ago
  The parent (you replied to) discussed the state of browsers The problem with this tiny projects is that you need a web browser. And good luck browsing the web in old PCs [...] As I can imagine now, a lot of things will not run on 10 y.o. hardware once you get limited by the last base OS you could install.
  - JasonFruit 4y ago
    In the context of Linux, ten year old hardware is widely supported, and will not limit what base OS version and software is installable, though its capabilities might affect usability. We're not really discussing OS X here, where planned obsolescence is such a huge factor.
  - pessimizer 4y ago
    That's not really a Linux problem as far as I can tell. You can install a five-minute old Debian-testing on 10 year old hardware without too many surprises.
- prmoustache 4y ago
  Main private laptop is an HP elitebook 8440p from 2012 and it works perfectly fine with modern web and streaming, currently running Fedora 36. It came out with a core i7 and it supports up to 16GB of ram. I upgraded it to 12GB a few years ago and an SSD. Caveat: it was a model from the professionnal line, came with free ram slot and is easily disk swappable. The same could not be said of a model from the consumer line that would have had its memory maxed out at 2GB.

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While clean reinstalling my macOS last month, my recovery partition was lost - and I booted via internet recovery to MacOS Mavericks. Needless to say, I couldn

by srvmshr 4y ago

adrianN 4y ago
Ten year old software is very different from ten year old hardware.
- srvmshr 4y ago
  The parent (you replied to) discussed the state of browsers The problem with this tiny projects is that you need a web browser. And good luck browsing the web in old PCs [...] As I can imagine now, a lot of things will not run on 10 y.o. hardware once you get limited by the last base OS you could install.
  - JasonFruit 4y ago
    In the context of Linux, ten year old hardware is widely supported, and will not limit what base OS version and software is installable, though its capabilities might affect usability. We're not really discussing OS X here, where planned obsolescence is such a huge factor.
  - pessimizer 4y ago
    That's not really a Linux problem as far as I can tell. You can install a five-minute old Debian-testing on 10 year old hardware without too many surprises.
- prmoustache 4y ago
  Main private laptop is an HP elitebook 8440p from 2012 and it works perfectly fine with modern web and streaming, currently running Fedora 36. It came out with a core i7 and it supports up to 16GB of ram. I upgraded it to 12GB a few years ago and an SSD. Caveat: it was a model from the professionnal line, came with free ram slot and is easily disk swappable. The same could not be said of a model from the consumer line that would have had its memory maxed out at 2GB.