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At the same time I can run the latest OS on my 10-year-old ThinkPad brick. It's slow and ugly, but it works for the purposes I want to use it for. It's absolut
by Avamander 1y ago
At the same time I can run the latest OS on my 10-year-old ThinkPad brick. It's slow and ugly, but it works for the purposes I want to use it for.
It's absolutely crazy how we're basically forced to accept that mobile devices just expire when the OEM decides so. Unless you go into extreme lengths to build your own custom ROM, which might not even be properly doable (when the device becomes EOL).
- ClumsyPilot 1y ago> Unless you go into extreme lengths to build your own custom ROM, which might not even be properly doable Also the process is prone to unexpected issues, bugs, etc.
- Sayrus 1y ago> Unless you go into extreme lengths to build your own custom ROM And even then, while you get software updates on that custom ROM the firmware usually just isn't updated anymore so security is still an issue.
- ta1243 1y agoI run ubuntu 2404 on my 2017 thinkpad fine, although I have replaced the battery (and about to again), upgraded the ram etc, not expecting to replace it for some more years yet. My iphone 12 mini is from 2020 and is fine, so 5 years. Next ios release still supports 2019 iphone 11s, dropping the 2018 era, so apple seems to give 7 years for a phone, which doesn't seem terrible for closed source software.
- vbezhenar 1y agoI can't run Windows 11 on my 10-year old computer, and Windows 10 will EOL soon.
- tunduhwaepuguh 1y agoreinstall can do it
- user_7832 1y agoFriendly reminder that if you are really interested, you can run Win 10 IOT LTSC till 2031. Also, I seem to remember that Win 11 LTSC doesn't need a TPU (and hence can be installed on older hardware).
- fsflover 1y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44318420 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44318420