• coltn@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    hell ya for being able to buy these used as office surplus in 5 or so years

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    1 month ago

    Just in time for RAM, SSD, and HDD prices to skyrocket and make personal computers unaffordable.

    I guess if you can afford one now, at least you’ll be able to repair it.

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      1 month ago

      Oh stop it. Plenty of used computers are perfectly fine. There isn’t a single thing you need done that can’t be done with a 15 year old PC. You don’t need “agentic AI” to generate horse slop in your home, you don’t need terabytes of pirated content you can’t watch anyway, you don’t need video games.

      We live in the golden era of thrifting PCs and disconnecting from the slop and nonsense of modern computing.

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        1 month ago

        My apologies! I didn’t realize you were the arbiter of what I do and don’t need. I feel so relieved now that I can just ignore all of the demands on my life and just hand over such authority to some opinionated jackass I met on lemmy.

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      1 month ago

      You could buy an anemic one now, and then upgrade the RAM & storage once prices come down.