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On Sunday 19 March 2023, dep via tde-users was heard to say:
this 15-year-old Thinkpad has been chugging along so faithfully that it has a *heated* keyboard!
I hope you've cleaned the fan and cooling fins.
I bought one used laptop and found a felt pad of hair had built up on the cooling fins inside the machine. The seller was surprised when I said I hope his white dog was doing well.
Linux does run quite well on "obsolete" hardware. We benefit from Microsloth's "upgrade treadmill" with barely used hardware being sold off every time the newest 'Doze won't run on it.
Curt-
- -- You may my glories and my state dispose, But not my griefs; still am I king of those. --- William Shakespeare, "Richard II"