djdarren

My Gamecube would love it.

My partner had theirs replaced yesterday. It’s the second time I’ve sat by them while it was done, and my god, you uterus-owners pay the iron price for that shit. And we thank you all for it.

I got a bunch laying about for one reason or another. Sadly, it’s all laptop RAM.

I mean, not sadly for me, as I have a fetish for micro PCs, and guess what…

Trouble is, all you’re doing by dumping a full trolley is inconveniencing someone who’s paid minimum wage.

Keep an eye out for any thin clients that can’t support Win11 that businesses are getting rid of. You might have some luck with them.

I’ve hit a goldmine with my work upgrading all of the PCs.

I now have two Dell Optiplex 7050 and a 3020 micro pcs, all with 8gb of replaceable RAM. Two of them came with 130gb M.2 SSDs, one with a 130gb SATA SSD. All told they cost me nothing, because the company can’t use them (they don’t support Win11), and there’s another 50 machines that can be sold if the boss can be arsed.

None of them will set the world alight, but they’re perfect for little things I want to do at home.

I spent yesterday setting up one of the 7050s with an M.2 NIC, then slapped Proxmox and OpenWRT on it and am now free of the shitty Linksys my ISP gave me.

Next up, I need to whip the two drives out of my 2014 Mac mini Debian server so I can replace it with something that can accept more RAM than the soldered 8gb I’m currently stuck with.

It’s fun!