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From: Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-11,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: The problem with not owning the software
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-hh wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

> <snip>
>
> I think what changed for me was recognizing that I no longer need to go 
> through extraordinary efforts to make an PC last a decade anymore, 
> because their costs have declined so dramatically over the past 40 years.

Extraordinary efforts? I have a 12+ year-old laptop that's been a Linux
box for all of its life (after it got delivered to me).

The only extraordinary effort I took was installing an SSD.

The thing is shut down right now; Imma keeping it around for potential later
usage.

(I've got an old desktop box sitting up in the attic. Not sure I will ever
power it on again. Noisy, takes up too much room.)

-- 
In Columbia, Pennsylvania, it is against the law for a pilot to tickle
a female flying student under her chin with a feather duster in order
to get her attention.