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

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:

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Works great. This $12 one with lubuntu will be my back up computer.

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If it does what you need it to do, great.
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Eat your hearts out hh :) Spend a couple of more thousands on yours. Hehe :)

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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.
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And rest of you, place "Christmas lights" inside them. Gift wrap your computers.
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Hahhahhahhahh :-))
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You Bozos will get more out of them that way.

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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.
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-hh

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The $12 Special goes well with lubuntu, and the package blends nicely in Usenet ...

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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.
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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