No performance upgrades or buying new computers I use for another year! I owe it to users of all the software I work on and help maintain to notice performance problems before they do. Staying a few generations behind helps ensure that so I notice bad things earlier. Sometimes, I'll even force my CPUs to use the "powersave" governor to see how slow things are.
I may need to replace storage devices as they wear out; but will try to make up for that by increasing the amount of archived data which is publically-accessible[1]. I went all of 2014 and 2015 without upgrading, either. I had several hardware failures in 2013 and decided it made more sense to upgrade those machines than attempting to limp along with decade old hardware, especially since the old hardware lacked ECC memory. Before 2013, I got a workstation/storage server in 2010 to replace a machine that was a victim of the capacitor plague[2]. Yes, "decade old"; no, I don't upgrade frequently. Sent from my iPh^H^H^H Core 2 Duo laptop from 2008 :) [1] but possibly as a Tor hidden service [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague -- unsubscribe: [email protected] archive: http://80x24.org/misc/
