I know times are hard, but you could build/find a PC for <$300 that doesn’t run that badly. Hell, even a ~$150-200 tablet would be way better than that.
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Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 week ago
HA! Jokes on them! I’m running a budget dell PC from 10 years ago! The PC itself is slower than any delays they cause! I’m talkin’ 3-5 minutes to load each video. Sometimes the whole PC freezes, and you need to unplug it. Sometimes the browser crashes right at the end, so you gotta relaunch the browser, and then wait 20 minutes for all the tabs to populate. Then you gotta end task on all the individual windows. Then you gotta reload just the tab you’re looking at, and THEN you can wait 5 minutes again.
You think I’m even going to notice your 10 second delay?
bassomitron@lemmy.world 1 week ago
a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
try to get a ssd from somewhere, that gives devices like yours a second life (and if you switch to linux it gets even smoother - sorry i couldn’t resisit)
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I’m running ZorinOS on an SSD.
a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
damn, your description reminded me of my experience with laptops running off a 5k rpm hdd using windows 8. sorry for assuming.