I was pretty thrilled at how much use I got out of that laptop. I originally picked it up as a companion machine to a desktop, but about a year later, I switched over to using the laptop almost exclusively. I got a docking station and hooked it up to my desktop monitors, and all was well. It did limit the games I could play, but hey, I guess you could call me a "patient gamer".
I did have to repair it a couple of times -- I replaced both the cooling fan and the hard drive around 2015-2017.
It was funny, what finally spurred me to start looking for a new machine was a free giveaway of Total War: Shogun 2 on Steam back in 2020. Free game? New computer!
For me: I like to play games. It was still fine for games like Dwarf Fortress or Civilization, and it could handle Factorio decently well (enough to launch a rocket, not enough for a megabase, heh).
For my mom? IDK, I was already pushing it with how long I stayed on Windows 7. I'm not sure that this particular laptop would have been a good hand-me-down in 2021.
Finally...I have to repeat: I bought the laptop in 2010. I got eleven years out of it for a type of device that most people replace every 2-3 years. Why isn't that good enough for you?
IDK, it's a far cry from "dropping support for stuff 14+ years old" to "we're going to coerce you into buying new hardware every other year".
I bought a laptop at the beginning of 2010 and used it until spring of 2021. It was long overdue for replacement by then, so even that wouldn't have been affected by this.
I was about to recommend her work until I saw this. She's one of my fav authors.
Some stuff I've read recently that you might check out:
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar. Sort of a spy vs. spy through time.
His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik. What if they had dragons during the Napoleonic wars?
Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas. Time travel is invented in the 1960s, quickly resulting in a time travel Agency. This novel explores a lot of facets of how such an Agency would function.
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky (and its sequels). It's excellent, but I'm struggling to describe it succinctly, so I'll just quote from Goodreads
A race for survival among the stars... Humanity's last survivors escaped earth's ruins to find a new home. But when they find it, can their desperation overcome its dangers?
Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear (White Space series). Far-future salvage ship operators discover lost alien technology.
I live in Minnesota. It's not quite as bad as you say. Opening windows overnight and closing them in the morning works pretty well to keep the house comfortable for most of the summer...well, except when we're inundated with smoke from the wildfires.
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What do you get when you cross Family guy with BTTF?
1.21 giggetywatts!