From: OFeem1987@teleworm.us   
      
   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?   
      
   > The minis are also giving the RPi a run for the money unless you really   
   > need the GPIO capability.   
      
   Heh, just went to Amazon and the prices of mini PC's have   
   *skrocketed*.  Thank you President Pendejo!   
      
   Also, oddly, the page started out in Spanish (Idioma Español).   
   I understand some, but not enough.   
      
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