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

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On 1/30/25 9:48 AM, -hh wrote:
> 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


Speaking of getting knocked off a table, just yesterday, not even 24 
hours after getting the new display cable, one of my cats (a muscular 
solid 25 pound bundle of muscles and life) knocked the whole micro form 
factor off the desk and had it hit the wooden floor, back-end first, 
banging the HDMI computer end of the display cable against it and 
bending it by about 60 degrees.. Cable is history, and $12 thingy, 
again, is what rules now!

This is what I'm talking about.

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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
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