A Call For Humor!

[Berwhale]

Beat the gouging and buy used systems.

I run Linux everywhere (so no Windows resource hogging OS/AI crap I didn't ask for) and I just buy grade A used PC's (laptops and desktops).

My Lenovo laptop of 11 years of age died last week. Picked up a used "Grade A" Dell, 16GB mem, 500GB M2 disk, i7, Touch screen with flip (aka 2 in 1) for $US 300.

These are ex corporate leases and I have brought many over the years.

Below are the disk usage stats of the "new" Dell Laptop. What always amazes me is the disk usage stats of these Grade A PC's (note the stats below include my copying of my Linux bit image backup)


data_units_read : 39,460,728
data_units_written : 31,169,775
host_read_commands : 686,609,703
host_write_commands : 619,933,870

power_cycles : 1,331
power_on_hours : 1,905

Note the complete lack of data read and write events and more amazingly, "power cycles" (1,331) verses "power on hours" (1,905).

So if we assume 250 work days a year and one power cycle per day we get a lease duration of 5 years (1331/250). So that makes sense. BUT..... it has been powered on for only 1905 hours or an average of 1.5 hours per day.

Probably used by a CEO or senior VP who spent the day navel gazing/power lunching/golfing rather than doing any real work.

So... buy used and avoid the AI induced price gouging.

Peter

If it meets your needs, then why not?

On the other hand, @Bleib's post seems pertinent*...

*I bought the DDR5 SODIMMs mentioned in my original post to run a Linux system

 

[popej]

If it meets your needs, then why not?

On the other hand, @Bleib's post seems pertinent*...

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*I bought the DDR5 SODIMMs mentioned in my original post to run a Linux system

In the era of virtualisation, do we have to choose? Have you ever tried to run Wine under Debian installed from Microsoft Store?

 

[Berwhale]

In the era of virtualisation, do we have to choose? Have you ever tried to run Wine under Debian installed from Microsoft Store?

I know Wine is very good now, but the last time I played with it was on a Redhat install from floppy disks (i'm talking about RHL here, not RHEL, it was RHL 5.2 IIRC).

I have plenty Linux systems at home, but i'm also pretty invested in Windows and have no problems bending it to my will (I qualified as a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer on Windows NT 3.51 in 1997 and been responsible to 1,000's of servers and 10's of 1,000's of desktops at various points in my career)

Anyway, none of this is funny, back to the humour!

 

[Bleib]

 

[Ropeburn]

 

[respice finem]

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Feeding spot for bears?

 

[Audionaut]

I'm not hungry anymore right now

 

[Ropeburn]

I'm not hungry anymore right now

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[Robin L]

 

[respice finem]

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The secret to never ditching them is not to make them

 

[mhardy6647]

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This is hysterical -- the density of truly horrible puns is inspiring.

 

[Ropeburn]

One of the cutest things in the world: the habit of pallas cats warming their paws by putting them on the tail.

 

[Robin L]

This is hysterical -- the density of truly horrible puns is inspiring.

" . . . Thomas Pynchon, in his 1973 novel Gravity's Rainbow, creates a convoluted setup for a feghoot in the character of Chiclitz*, who deals in furs, which are delivered to his storehouse by a group of youngsters. Chiclitz confides to his guest Marvy that he hopes one day to take these boys to Hollywood, where Cecil B. DeMille will use them as singers. Marvy points out that it's more likely that DeMille will want to use them as galley slaves in an epic film about the Greeks or Persians. Chiclitz is outraged: 'Galley slaves?... Never, by God. For DeMille, young fur-henchmen can't be rowing!' . . . "

Definition and Examples of Feghoots

A feghoot is a narrative (usually an anecdote or short story) that concludes with an elaborate pun. Also called a shaggy dog story.

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*First name "Bloody"

 

[mhardy6647]

One of the cutest things in the world: the habit of pallas cats warming their paws by putting them on the tail.

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They all look like they're saying "We're not fat, we're just big-furred."
(at least to me)
Yes, they are all adorbsable.

 

[mhardy6647]

" . . . Thomas Pynchon, in his 1973 novel Gravity's Rainbow, creates a convoluted setup for a feghoot in the character of Chiclitz*, who deals in furs, which are delivered to his storehouse by a group of youngsters. Chiclitz confides to his guest Marvy that he hopes one day to take these boys to Hollywood, where Cecil B. DeMille will use them as singers. Marvy points out that it's more likely that DeMille will want to use them as galley slaves in an epic film about the Greeks or Persians. Chiclitz is outraged: 'Galley slaves?... Never, by God. For DeMille, young fur-henchmen can't be rowing!' . . . "

Definition and Examples of Feghoots

A feghoot is a narrative (usually an anecdote or short story) that concludes with an elaborate pun. Also called a shaggy dog story.

www.thoughtco.com

*First name "Bloody"

I remember Chickitz, but not this feghoot.
Somehow, though, I am reminded of Elves... I mean Elvis.

EDIT:
PS I'll also note as an economic aside that the above-referenced Elvis record titular-ly seems to show the impact of post-war inflation vis-a-vis the aforementioned fur henchmen.

 

[Bleib]

 

[thewas]

 

[Ropeburn]

They all look like they're saying "We're not fat, we're just big-furred."
(at least to me)
Yes, they are all adorbsable.

They're totes adorbs because of the legendary fact:

The body is round

 

[mhardy6647]

Like the spherical cow.

Spherical Cows? | The Spherical Cow

www.sphericalcowblog.com

 

[mhardy6647]

The Faster We Go, the Rounder We Get

That's It for the Other One - Wikipedia

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