Ask HN: Does anyone else use a 32 bit computer regularly?
My primary computer was 32 bit x86 until last year. I still use it often, but more and more software is dropping support.
Also have one on my desk to run one as a minimal terminal in case my "real" machine goes down, so i can have my keyboard and trackball and comfortable desk arrangement to work with even while fixing the bigger system. I manage to need that one once every 6 months or so, for some reason or another.
I think I shut down my last 32bit x86 system in 2019. It was a laptop that had been serving as a home lan router / firewall / file server for almost a decade.
I can't recall my last 'real' i386 processor, I switched as soon as possible to one of the first AMDs to support 64 bit. I wonder, which 32bit x86 computer do you use which is still working? It must be old, at least a decade. Last Intel made 32bit, there were a few 32bit atom notebooks about a decade ago, but I recall these were rather weak even at the time?