This thread is a discussion ground for people who use and/or have upgraded/refitted/retrofitted older technology with newer hardware or software upgrades/updates to keep them going longer, whether due to financial reasons, practicality, or just plain old fondness.
It could be as simple as upgrading your old PC or '00--'10 era laptop with more memory and an SSD, to actually upgrading the processor or changing the motherboard in said laptop; to install a new version of Android on your older phone, to get more life out of it.
My phone is currently a Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini. Yeah, that phone. However, I installed a fork of Lineage OS onto it that brings it up from 4.42 to (I think) it was 9.
My desktop? It's an AMD Phenom II x4 965 3.4 GHZ, with a ATI Radeon 4600 HD. I only play old retro games at the moment (and games from the 00's--'10's), so it suits my purposes well. I'm definitely going to get a cheap Ryzen as a stop-gap build until I can build my dream gaming/productivity PC, though. Maybe I'll re-use the processor and memory in this for a retro gaming PC, one day (XP, '95, or 98? Choices, choices!).
I've seen people discuss buying older Amazon Fire Kindles and installing a version of Android onto them for a cheap yet robust tablet: thoughts?
It could be as simple as upgrading your old PC or '00--'10 era laptop with more memory and an SSD, to actually upgrading the processor or changing the motherboard in said laptop; to install a new version of Android on your older phone, to get more life out of it.
My phone is currently a Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini. Yeah, that phone. However, I installed a fork of Lineage OS onto it that brings it up from 4.42 to (I think) it was 9.
My desktop? It's an AMD Phenom II x4 965 3.4 GHZ, with a ATI Radeon 4600 HD.
I only play old retro games at the moment (and games from the 00's--'10's), so it suits my purposes well. I'm definitely going to get a cheap Ryzen as a stop-gap build until I can build my dream gaming/productivity PC, though. Maybe I'll re-use the processor and memory in this for a retro gaming PC, one day (XP, '95, or 98? Choices, choices!).I've seen people discuss buying older Amazon Fire Kindles and installing a version of Android onto them for a cheap yet robust tablet: thoughts?