by Burn » Thu Jan 09, 2014 5:02 am
- Motto: "Freedom is the right of all sentient beings to randomly click things in the Admin Panel to see what it breaks."
Five years is a bloody good run.
My home laptop that I'm on is just under three years, had to replace the hard drive a month and a half ago.
I've got a desktop machine sitting on the floor beside me collecting dust. A friend gave it to me because it stopped connecting to the internet for her (so she went out and got a whole new system). A quick reinstall of Windows and it's running fine. As it's a spare I figured I'd play around and installed Ubuntu on it as well.
Then I have a relic. It's not a laptop, no no, you don't want this sitting on your lap unless you like having your legs crushed. It's an old Acer "portable computer". It's an old work machine and a good ten years old. It would take half an hour to get up and running on the network at work, so when we moved more computers in I snapped this one up. Brought it home, nice format later and it boots up nicely! It just needs to be plugged into the mains all the time.
The computer I'm currently using at work is also over five years old, I swear and curse at it on a regular basis. As the IT Administrator I opted to take the poopy machine so if people came to be complaining about theirs, I let them use mine for half an hour. They stop complaining after that ...
I accepted a while back that my gaming days are done, I just lack the time to do it.