Comment by 👻 darkghost
Re: "🖥️ Reusing Old Computers with Arch Linux and DWM"
Solid state storage is stored like firmware. Maybe they're just sending you your data back from the cloud.
Apr 05 · 5 weeks ago
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I think they figured out how to use our drives to store cloud data.
An anticloud.
🚀 SavaRocks [OP] · Apr 05 at 18:42:
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I run Debian 12 on a laptop from 2003, it is slower than in 2005, it runs the same default Debian with Xfce.
After boot, 250MB RAM is used same as in 2005, the CPU and GPU performance is lower than in 2005 probably due to the linux kernel.
I think Intel has slowed x86 chips down while counteracting heart bleed or something like that
👻 darkghost · Apr 05 at 20:25:
Whoa.
The CPU in this laptop is not affected by meldown and spectre so the mitigations are not enabled.
The default debian kernel has many features compiled in so it is more code to execute compare to the kernel from 2005 with less features.
Running htop takes 10% of the CPU.
God. is it a P4?
It is Pentium M processor, so P4 for laptops.
— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_M
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🖥️ Reusing Old Computers with Arch Linux and DWM — Old computers don't need to die. They just need less. This is where Arch Linux and DWM come in. In 2026, reclaiming an old machine with Arch Linux and DWM means getting back a truly personal computer again. Instead of a locked-down, resource-hungry system deciding how your hardware is used, you run something minimal, transparent, and entirely under your control. Even aging hardware becomes fast, responsive, and distraction free - not because…