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   寮 (ryo@social.076.ne.jp)'s status on Monday, 05-Dec-2022 22:52:24 JST 寮
   Somebody on Yahoo Off was giving away a ThinkPad almost for free (like 100 yen or some shit, so it's less than 1 dollar for Americans or less than 1 euro for the Europeans), marked it as a junk.
   They note that memory, HDD, and battery have recently been replaced.
   
   So what's the reason it was declared "junk"?
   The fact that it's getting slower and slower to boot WinDOS 10 Home, and it got to the point it takes forever to boot.
   
   This are the types of idiots you're supposed to profit from!
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     Terminal Autism (terminalautism@social.076.ne.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Dec-2022 07:25:07 JST Terminal Autism

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     @ryo At least he gave it away and didn't throw it in the garbage, so he's being wasteful on a micro level but not on a macro level, since the computer goes to someone else, that can use it.
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     寮 (ryo@social.076.ne.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Dec-2022 07:28:01 JST 寮

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     • Terminal Autism
     @TerminalAutism His request is to just take the parts and sell these if you want to.
     I guess they've never heard of Linux and BSD before.
     And perhaps that's a good thing, because if these 2 were more known among the normies, then fewer otherwise perfectly functioning 2008 ThinkPads would end up at junkyards.
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     Terminal Autism (terminalautism@social.076.ne.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Dec-2022 07:31:59 JST Terminal Autism

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     @ryo Well, at the same time, there would be less waste and more incentive for good things to be made again, to compete with the old...
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     寮 (ryo@social.076.ne.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Dec-2022 07:31:59 JST 寮

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     • Terminal Autism
     @TerminalAutism I don't think so.
     The money printer needs to continue to go BRRRRR with so much greed.
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     Wrongthink (wrongthink@cdrom.tokyo)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Dec-2022 07:50:38 JST Wrongthink

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     • Terminal Autism

     @TerminalAutism @ryo I have made a modest amount of money by pulling junked desktops and laptops out of city dumps and cleaning, restoring and reselling them. People were less likely to buy with Linux Mint installed, but I just either told them it’s “like apple” or showed them the cost of windows licensing to keep the sale moving.

     These days I just let the normies wallow in their filth.

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