Subj : Re: Home Lab
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Dennisk
Date : Thu May 07 2020 09:06:00

-=> poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Dennisk <=-

 -=> Dennisk wrote to Paulie420 <=-

 De> this.  I'd rather find more efficient ways to work with the machine,
 De> than spend money.

pF> Anyone can solve a probem by throwing money at it.  :)

Anyone with money to throw away that is.  But it isn't the money which bothers
me.  It is otherwise good equipment thrown into landfill, wasting resources,
leeching toxins into the soil.  It is the churn of natural resources to rebuild
technology over and over and over again to do the same tasks.  It is the waste
of human labour and effort reinventing the wheel, restarting, resetting,
reprogramming.  I can't abide by waste and hate squandering what we have. 
People are criminally wasteful.  There is always justification for doing this,
but most of it doesn't hold up to scrutiny.

 pF> When I discovered Lubuntu and got rid of XP on my single-core T43, I
 pF> was pleasantly surprised and got a couple of years more life. A cheap
 pF> PATA SSD gave it a few more years, and I ended up using the same laptop
 pF> for over 10 years (after it was already obsolete)

Wait until you discover Puppy Linux or LTSP, then you'll get years more.  When
I was younger and living with my family, I had my machine set up as a Linux
Terminal Server, which allowed my sister on the Pentium 100, using a boot
floppy, to log directly into my computer using an account, and browse the
internet.

pF> ... Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
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.... Dennis Katsonis
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