Concerning those who buy overpriced hardware and demand that we "mind our own business" when we try to scold them...

[KGIII]

Nice! I'll pay $5 for that app. That's worth money to me.

 

[Deleted member 108694]

I use old discarded computers for Linux and upgrade them to the maximum that my spare parts allows me to and for my computer use it's all I need.

I can afford to buy a System 76 computer if I wanted to spend that amount of money however why should I if what I have cuts the mustard for what I need.

I believe that computer parts have become outrageously overpriced along with everything else in the consumer industry.

It's my choice if I choose to buy or if I choose not to buy outrageously overpriced consumer products and nobody is forcing me or anyone else to do so.

As long as Linux works on my outdated Frankenstein boxes I'll keep on using them gives me something to do in my old age and plenty of parts that can be purchased from Ebay cheap.

And besides I'm a cheap old bastard.


Cheers.

I just upgraded my 2012 Dell E6530 to a quad core CPU for 40$ from eBay - originally had a dual core i5 now a quad core i7 -a whole lot faster now - next upgrade I think will be a SSD drive
System:
Host: expirion Kernel: 5.15.75-xanmod1 x86_64 bits: 64
Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 Distro: Expirion-Xfce 11 (bullseye)
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Latitude E6530 v: 01
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Dell model: 07Y85M v: A01 serial: <superuser required> BIOS: Dell
v: A21 date: 02/21/2018
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 49.0 Wh condition: 49.0/62.2 Wh (79%)
CPU:
Info: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7-3630QM bits: 64 type: MT MCP
L2 cache: 6 MiB
Speed: 1296 MHz min/max: 1200/3400 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1296 2: 2693
3: 1975 4: 3258 5: 1861 6: 3358 7: 2428 8: 3320
Info:
Processes: 270 Uptime: 13h 08m Memory: 15.54 GiB used: 1.78 GiB (11.5%)
Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.01

 

[Deleted member 137406]

Yep if your willing to search the pages ebay has some good deals on on used pc parts.

 

[3wize]

If you are not into gaming you can run cheap with thin-clients like this:

with 8Gb RAM and 256Gb SSD you can run OS + 1-2 virtual machines without any sensible speed reduction. ~250$ new

 

[f33dm3bits]

I usually like to spend a bit more on something good quality if will last me at least 4-5 years, with an exception every now and then. Three months ago I spend 1000 euros on an RTX 3090, it was a really good deal because normally it would have cost 1500 euros.