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Re: Relf: The Fate of My Optiplex 7050 Issue :-)

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On 1/30/25 1:52 AM, Physfitfreak wrote:
> On 1/29/25 9:26 PM, -hh wrote:
>> On 1/29/25 3:20 PM, Physfitfreak wrote:
>>> On 1/29/25 12:33 PM, -hh wrote:
>>>> On 1/29/25 11:50 AM, Physfitfreak wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Works great. This $12 one with lubuntu will be my back up computer.
>>>>
>>>> If it does what you need it to do, great.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Eat your hearts out hh :) Spend a couple of more thousands on 
>>>>> yours. Hehe :)
>>>>
>>>> Nah, I'm not jealous of your frugality.  Indeed, if I had a need for 
>>>> a minimally capable PC, I have a couple of them sitting around that 
>>>> I could put back into service...plus I wouldn't have sold one last 
>>>> month for more than 10x your bargain find.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> And rest of you, place "Christmas lights" inside them. Gift wrap 
>>>>> your computers.
>>>>>
>>>>> Hahhahhahhahh :-))
>>>>>
>>>>> You Bozos will get more out of them that way.
>>>>
>>>> Which still comes back to the question of if one's capability needs 
>>>> are being satisfied or not, such as you and your $12 Special:  it 
>>>> seems that being able to post texts to USENET is met, but is there 
>>>> anything else that its needed for which is more demanding?  If not, 
>>>> great:  you're all set.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -hh
>>>
>>>
>>> The $12 Special goes well with lubuntu, and the package blends nicely 
>>> in Usenet ...
>>
>> Figured as much.  One of my old PCs that's being kept as a 'maybe 
>> project' is IIRC an old Celeron running MS-Vista that has a small SSD 
>> for its boot drive which could make for a Linux boxen for something. 
>> I'd be thinking more 'file server' though, although I'd have to check 
>> to see if it is even new enough to be SATA, and if so, how many bays 
>> it has to stuff with old small hard drives to waste some electricity on.
>>
>> I've not gotten to it because I already have two Linux boxens doing 
>> that, so do I really need a third one?
> 
> I do. I've had two occasions just last year when I needed to do 
> something with a working computer and printer and for some reason none 
> of the 5 computers I thought were working could help me.

Equipment always needs to be maintained, which isn't free.  Stuff that's 
unreliable is increasingly not worth the space it occupies.

> I don't know about you, but I never quite know a computer set up is 
> there when I need it.

I consider reliability & availability/uptime to simply be other metrics 
of performance that one should include on one's requirement list.


> Also I don't know how many pets you have. I have enough to ruin any of 
> my electronic devices years before their time would be up.

Not having stuff get chewed up is the product of prevention + training. 
Ditto for not having stuff get knocked off a table to the floor, etc.


-hh

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Relf: The Fate of My Optiplex 7050 Issue :-) Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-28 16:14 -0600
  Re: Relf: The Fate of My Optiplex 7050 Issue :-) Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-28 18:21 -0600
    Re: Relf: The Fate of My Optiplex 7050 Issue :-) chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2025-01-29 07:10 -0600
      Re: Relf: The Fate of My Optiplex 7050 Issue :-) Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-29 08:48 -0600
    Re: Relf: The Fate of My Optiplex 7050 Issue :-) DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2025-01-29 09:59 -0500
      Re: Relf: The Fate of My Optiplex 7050 Issue :-) vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-01-29 15:25 +0000
        Re: Relf: The Fate of My Optiplex 7050 Issue :-) CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-01-29 11:42 -0500
        Re: Relf: The Fate of My Optiplex 7050 Issue :-) DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2025-01-29 11:53 -0500
    Re: Relf: The Fate of My Optiplex 7050 Issue :-) Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-29 09:01 -0600
      Re: Relf: The Fate of My Optiplex 7050 Issue :-) DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2025-01-29 10:18 -0500
      Re: Relf: The Fate of My Optiplex 7050 Issue :-) Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-29 10:50 -0600
        Re: Relf: The Fate of My Optiplex 7050 Issue :-) -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-01-29 13:33 -0500
          Re: Relf: The Fate of My Optiplex 7050 Issue :-) Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-29 14:20 -0600
            Re: Relf: The Fate of My Optiplex 7050 Issue :-) -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-01-29 22:26 -0500
              Re: Relf: The Fate of My Optiplex 7050 Issue :-) Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-30 00:52 -0600
                Re: Relf: The Fate of My Optiplex 7050 Issue :-) -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-01-30 10:48 -0500
                Re: Relf: The Fate of My Optiplex 7050 Issue :-) Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-30 13:17 -0600
                Re: Relf: The Fate of My Optiplex 7050 Issue :-) chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2025-01-30 16:14 -0600
                Re: Relf: The Fate of My Optiplex 7050 Issue :-) -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-01-30 19:46 -0500
                Re: Relf: The Fate of My Optiplex 7050 Issue :-) Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-30 19:38 -0600
                Re: Relf: The Fate of My Optiplex 7050 Issue :-) Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-30 19:19 -0600
                Re: Relf: The Fate of My Optiplex 7050 Issue :-) DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2025-01-30 23:06 -0500
            Re: Relf: The Fate of My Optiplex 7050 Issue :-) DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2025-01-29 22:51 -0500
              Re: Relf: The Fate of My Optiplex 7050 Issue :-) CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-01-30 08:44 -0500
  Re: Relf: The Fate of My Optiplex 7050 Issue :-) DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2025-01-29 11:45 -0500

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