Subj : Re: Am I The Only One Dum
To   : MIKE POWELL
From : Bob Worm
Date : Fri Jan 24 2025 23:23:32

  Re: Re: Am I The Only One Dum
  By: MIKE POWELL to BOB WORM on Fri Jan 24 2025 09:25:00

Hi, Mike.

 > That they are.  ;)  The other reason I quit doing it was that people
 > stopped giving me second-hand machines, and the largest local employer
 > stopped selling them cheap.

Yes, it's funny how home users switched to mobile with a bit of tablet and we didn't really notice... but looking back now it has been a long time since anyone I know bought a desktop computer. I suppose it also doesn't help that a 10 year old laptop is still mostly adequate for a home user - in fact I had a card from a family friend this Christmas telling me that she had just retired the laptop I set up for her when my son was a newborn. He's now 18 :)

A lot of the law is unhelpful as well - one of my friends is having to scrap perfectly good service provider routers in his job because they have to be certified destroyed. I get it for disks but networking kit?

BobW
--- SBBSecho 3.23-Linux
 * Origin: >>> Magnum BBS <<< - magnumbbs.net (21:1/205)

.