by AArdvark » Sat Sep 17, 2022 1:28 pm
A friend of mine was throwing away her old laptop computers, recycling, really. Naturally I asked if I could have them. If I can't use them for anything then I will recycle them. Got a Toshiba Satellite and an Acer Aspire mini. The Toshiba had a broken screen and was slow as shit but it did have a good HD in it and a 1 gig mem stick so I kept those. The Acer had a crap 8gig drive and 256m of onboard. I put the 1gig stick in it and a 125G Kensington SSD drive I had in a box downstairs. At first I put Lubuntu on it but decided I wanted a (fucking stolen!) Microsoft product so I loaded in Tiny7. Using it now on my back deck to see what it's like. It's faster than my Inspirion but I have to lean way close to see anything. It's better than a phone because of the real keyboard, even if it's built for people with fingers like pipe cleaners.
A friend of mine was throwing away her old laptop computers, recycling, really. Naturally I asked if I could have them. If I can't use them for anything then I will recycle them. Got a Toshiba Satellite and an Acer Aspire mini. The Toshiba had a broken screen and was slow as shit but it did have a good HD in it and a 1 gig mem stick so I kept those. The Acer had a crap 8gig drive and 256m of onboard. I put the 1gig stick in it and a 125G Kensington SSD drive I had in a box downstairs. At first I put Lubuntu on it but decided I wanted a (fucking stolen!) Microsoft product so I loaded in Tiny7. Using it now on my back deck to see what it's like. It's faster than my Inspirion but I have to lean way close to see anything. It's better than a phone because of the real keyboard, even if it's built for people with fingers like pipe cleaners.