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Oh it works now, but that charger you got is iffy at best and you've got probs another hour's worth of battery before it stops working and you have to go buy a new one.
Lets hope all these updates thrash the SSD and deplete the storage health. That's how I got to take home my last work laptop
ahahah a couple years ago a mate's workplace was decomissoning a site. They said "Take what you want, we'll ewaste what's left after this weekend" All the millenial coworkers grabbed maybe a chair, maybe a monitor or two.
Me and said mate (a fellow genXer) rented a truck. And we cleared that fucking joint out, including "broken" laptops and entire comms racks.
My problem is I want all that stuff but don't know what to do with it. I have an optiplex in a server cabinet and an RPI knockoff I get stuck with every time I try to do something
Start playing with home automation. HAOS is free and Ikea have cheap matter devices
(I built a custom rack, it has two pizza boxes - one testbed, one 'production', both running proxmox. Production one has our automation, a virtual xp box for legacy drivers and an alpine middleman for the symlinks. Under that is a dedicated win7 box offline and kvm'd because fuck 10 onwards, the UPS, webserver and de switches. Fikeserver lives off yo one side because that was a fuckoff massive kitbash i did years ago on an old proliant 1500 scsi chassis)