From: crude@sausa.ge   
      
   On Sun, 15 Feb 2026 07:49:53 -0500, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:   
      
   > rbowman wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:   
   >   
   >> On Sat, 14 Feb 2026 14:44:17 -0500, Joel W. Crump wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> After what NVIDIA did to my beloved self-assembled desktop, admittedly   
   >>> with my own carelessness factoring in, I would never give them a   
   >>> penny,   
   >>> again.  Then again, I wouldn't even build a computer again, these mini   
   >>> PCs from China are great to run Linux on, not even that bad for   
   >>> running Winblows, but fuck spending a fortune on PCs anymore, I have   
   >>> 16 GB RAM and 512 GB storage, for the purchase price of $190, with a   
   >>> Win11 Pro license if I ever want that back (which I won't, but hey).   
   >>> The new era is here.   
   >>   
   >> Time goes by...  I bought a Beelink mini as an experiment over 5 years   
   >> ago. It's been running Ubuntu happily ever since. It was $389 but has a   
   >> Ryzen 7 processor. It has AMD Radeon graphics, good enough for what I   
   >> do and it's saved me a lot of time screwing around with Nvidia drivers.   
   >> At the time Intel was still doing the NUC but the market has taken off   
   >> since then with a lot of cheaper and more expensive variants.   
   >>   
   >> I have a nice Antec case that screams for a build. The last time I gave   
   >> it any serious thought I decided I could buy a Dell cheaper than I   
   >> could do a build since I wasn't aiming at a high end gaming machine.   
   >   
   > I have an old computer sitting hard-driveless in a box ("Computer   
   > Housing") in the attic. I have no use for it. The fan's noise is too   
   > much, and the box takes up floor space. The mini PC works well.   
   >   
   > What to do with that old box?   
      
   Give it to a black person to do their homework, and come back a few days   
   later to find out that they raped it.   
      
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