[Ipg-smz] eBay vendors selling used laptops with Linux Mint installed

[Stephen Satchell]

"Obsolete" is when the device in question doesn't fulfill my needs.

I changed cell phones twice in one year because the case for the first, 
my Samsung 8S, kept breaking -- but the 10e's Otterbox keeps on 
trucking.  I'm thinking of putting the 8S up for sale on eBay, and let a 
Tesla gigafactory worker purchase it.

My mail server has CentOS 4 loaded onto it, and the Dell box is still 
running as good as it did when I first loaded the OS and fired up 
PostFix.  The oldest file I could find easily:

> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  18568 Feb 21  2005 setserial

(The new mail server, still in construction, is a Dell laptop-in-a-tower 
I picked up at a garage sale, to which I added a SSD drive, and will be 
loaded with CentOS 7, but I'm not in a hurry.)

My laptops came from pawn shops, and I kick myself for missing an 
Alienware by one day.

My main Etherswitch came from a recycled-computer shop.  The two 48-port 
Etherswitches on the shelf were cast-offs from $DAYJOB, as was the relay 
rack in which the switches are mounted.

When I went car-shopping to replace the 1998 Toyota Sienna, I bought a 
used 2019 Toyota Sienna.  The latter went into storage when I broke four 
toes and had to (have to still) wear an ortho boot -- because I could 
still drive the older car better when booted than the new one.  (Yes, I 
now own TWO soccar-mom vehicles.)  Besides, if I wreak the '98, the 
vehicle is worth $850 Blue Book -- less loss.

I could go on.


On 1/1/20 9:55 AM, Lynn Greiner via Ipg-smz wrote:
> Same here. We have a lot of geriatric but functional tech in use.
> 
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> From: Ipg-smz<ipg-smz-bounces at netpress.org>  On Behalf Of Christine Hall via Ipg-smz
> Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2019 11:09 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Ipg-smz] eBay vendors selling used laptops with Linux Mint installed
> 
> In my house, it's not obsolete until we say it's obsolete.
> 
> Christine Hall
> Publisher & Editor
> FOSS Force: Keeping tech free
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