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A client in Denver handed me a 1998 Gateway desktop and asked if I could 'just make it like new'
He was completely serious, offering me $200 to upgrade it for his grandson's schoolwork. Has anyone else gotten a request that made you pause for a second?
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robin7778d ago
I took a similar job once and just installed a lightweight Linux distro (like Lubuntu) on the old hardware. It actually runs okay for basic web browsing and word processing.
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david_singh618d ago
Nice! That's exactly what I mean about tech waste. We throw out so much stuff that just needs a simpler system, like @robin777 said with Lubuntu. My neighbor tossed a laptop because it was "too slow" for Windows 11, but it runs fine on a light OS. Companies do this with whole offices of computers. It's not broken, it's just bloated software. Makes you wonder what else we could fix with a simpler approach, right?
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