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   Raven667 (raven667@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2024 01:00:01 JST Raven667

   • Thomas 🔭🕹️

   @thomasfuchs that PowerBook g4 was my first work laptop that replaced my desktop, the battery is a spicy pillow but I think it still boots with the power brick. One of the best of the era, it had every port built in, the screen res is low by today's standard but I used it for sysadmin work for years and years of until my boss forcibly replaced it with an Intel macbook. Nice keyboard and touchpad too

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     Alex Hyett (alex@social.alexhyett.com)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2024 01:26:58 JST Alex Hyett

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs ah yes the 80s, that was 20 years ago wasn’t it?

     It has got to the point that many of the gadgets I used as a kid are now in a museum.

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     David (davidbeck@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2024 02:14:59 JST David

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs my first laptop: an iBook G4. Great device! I think it is still running.

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     Generation Xylophone (bransonturner@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2024 03:07:34 JST Generation Xylophone

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs As a Gen Xer, I always count "years ago" from the year 2000.

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     Raven667 (raven667@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2024 07:41:01 JST Raven667

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs this was from the era of removable batteries, you could buy extra battery packs and swap them while the laptop was asleep, there is a capacitor or something which keeps the ram alive while you swap batteries, to extend runtime, so the spicy battery has long since been removed. I do need to get all the old batteries out of the house though, they are stored in a way to minimize fire risk, but the best would be to not have them at all 8-)