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What's the most repairable "thing" you own? (piefed.social)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by mesamunefire@piefed.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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For me its the old fans and vacuum cleaners. Over 40/years old each and still going strong. Clear labeling inside and have been fixed up multiple times.

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[–] lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

All of those screens have a CCFL, it's basically a miniature version of of those old tube lights. If that one reaches its end of life it gets dim and yellow and needs to be replaced.

The A22p also accepts the IPS displays from an A31p. I modded mine with one of those, so now I have a Windows 98 notebook with an especially beautiful display. 🥰

[–] Vex_Detrause@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Is that XP? That looks amazing!

[–] lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 days ago

Yes! :) I have dualboot with 98SE on this machine (the eGPU is pretty terrible to use on Windows 98).