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   kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 09:25:54 JST kaia
   is this good value?
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     ロミンちゃん (romin@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 09:39:54 JST ロミンちゃん

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     @kaia but can it run plan9
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     Jerome (j@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 09:46:25 JST Jerome

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     @kaia yeah
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     mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius: (mangeurdenuage@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 09:46:38 JST mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius:

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     I got 3 of these for 66euros with the lowest cpu it goes with (G3900T) and they are already very good.
     Cooling can come in different form the best being the heatpipe ones.
     You have 2 ram slots
     1 sata connector
     1 m2 slot
     1 mini pcie card slot
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     mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius: (mangeurdenuage@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 09:47:32 JST mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius:

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     @kaia See ibm's pdf.
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     Baa (baa@mk.absturztau.be)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 09:52:31 JST Baa

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     @kaia@brotka.st used to use these at work, decent little machines, very easy to open up, swap out ram and storage, this one was probably 400 Euro new

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     Evelyn fra denne andre øya (evelyn@misskey.bubbletea.dev)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 10:01:17 JST Evelyn fra denne andre øya

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     @kaia@brotka.st yep, and for such a cute system too

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     kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 18:08:50 JST kaia

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     @mangeurdenuage only thing that sucks is that I have to install Windows 11 on it, because the 82 year old man for whom I'm doing it needs Windows for tax software subscription.
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     mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius: (mangeurdenuage@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 22:39:58 JST mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius:

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     >the 82 year old man for whom I'm doing it needs Windows for tax software subscription.
     Have you tried launching it via wine ?
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     Bricky (thatbrickster@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 22:59:24 JST Bricky

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     • mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius:
     @mangeurdenuage Depends on the software used. I would expect licencing issues when run on Wine.
     
     @kaia
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     mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius: (mangeurdenuage@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 22:59:24 JST mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius:

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     @thatbrickster @kaia Except if they software required a form of DRM it might be an issue technically because of wine, but you never know, wine enforced a DRM online activation even tho I had the dvd of the game.
     
     But legally as long as it's not circumvention of DRM (except in France) then there's no legal or contract binding clause in all the EULA that I have read that tells you that a software has to only run on X operating system, otherwise that would mean that even VMs could be afflicted by such degenerated copyright logic.
     
     Speaking of that you could also run a VM via qemu/kvm instead of having a full windows install.
     
     Kaia mentioned that hte man is 82yo even tho possible now that I think about it, I doubt someone who's 82yo has the brain elasticity to be able to even change from the MS UI to even MATE compact which is the closest UI you can have from windows.
     But you never know.
     
     If you still migrate him to win11 then consider these
     
     -OpenShell: a functional desktop GUI
     https://open-shell.github.io/Open-Shell-Menu/
     -Bleachbit: Cleaner
     https://www.bleachbit.org/
     -Peazip: Archiver
     https://peazip.github.io/
     -SumatraPDF: PDF reader
     https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/free-pdf-reader
     -Nomacs: image reader/editor
     https://nomacs.org/
     -LibreOffice: Office suite/pdf editor
     https://www.libreoffice.org/
     -Firefox ESR: Web browser
     https://www.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/enterprise/#download
     -Thunderbird: email client
     https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/download/
     -VLC: audio/video decoder
     https://www.videolan.org/vlc/
     -KeepassXC: password manager
     https://keepassxc.org/
     -The Gimp: advanced image editor
     https://www.gimp.org/
     -Clamwin: antivirus
     https://clamwin.com/
     -Client torrent
     https://www.qbittorrent.org/
     
     WebBrowser addons:
     -uBo : a simple web firewall
     https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/
     -uMatrix: an advanced web firewall
     https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/umatrix/
     -Lightbeam: generates maps of third party trackers
     https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lightbeam-chikl
     -Firefox Multi-Account Containers:
     https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/
     
     Optional:
     -Blender: 3d modeling/animating
     https://www.blender.org/
     -OBS: video/audio recording/streaming
     https://obsproject.com/
     -Gsmartcontrol: HDD/SDD SMART diagnosis
     https://gsmartcontrol.shaduri.dev/
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 23:03:24 JST 翠星石

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     @mangeurdenuage @kaia @thatbrickster An 82 year old does have the brain elasticity to do so, it's really solely a matter on how willing he is to do so.
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     kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 23:11:49 JST kaia

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     @Suiseiseki @mangeurdenuage @thatbrickster
     bros, at 82 he has other problems than learn SumatraPDF reader. god forbid, but he will be dead soon.
     
     he gets sent a tax program for Windows 3.11/95/98/XP/7/8/10/11 on CD on a subscription together with a 300 page book. he does this for 25 years. his mouse is jittery as fuck because it's first generation wireless and the batteries are dead. some keys on his keyboard don't work. I'm not becoming his personal tech assistant :aurashrug:
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     mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius: (mangeurdenuage@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 23:18:30 JST mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius:

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     @kaia @Suiseiseki @thatbrickster
     >I'm not becoming his personal tech assistant :aurashrug:
     That's my job :akko_gun:
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     bartholin (bartholin@fops.cloud)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 23:34:03 JST bartholin

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     @kaia @Suiseiseki @mangeurdenuage @thatbrickster Throw a thinkpad at him, with gentoo installed and emacs+latex
     
     if he complains, scream "Skill issue! RTFM n00b!"
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     Bricky (thatbrickster@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 23:39:21 JST Bricky

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     • mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius:
     @kaia I'm with you, that's why I was questioning the setup. Ignore the wizards for they want to project their ideals upon others, which doesn't work for an OAP who just wants to get on with it.
     
     @Suiseiseki @mangeurdenuage
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