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From: Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Relf: The Fate of My Optiplex 7050 Issue :-)
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2025 00:52:46 -0600
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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?
> 
> 
> -hh


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.

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

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.