Re: [GTALUG] More pointless battles [was: I'm discarding an old notebook!]

On Thu., Feb. 17, 2022, 10:29 D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk, wrote: > > I would like to think that they are drawing down inventory for a Pi Day > announcement. That seems to be an unlikely reason when so many models are > OOS. > No, it's not that (and believe me, as an AR, I have to be very

Re: [GTALUG] More pointless battles [was: I'm discarding an old notebook!]

| From: Stewart C. Russell via talk | AMD Turion 64 X2 - so, roughly half of a Raspberry Pi 4. | | but it has a screen, keyboard, and you actually have it - unlike a Raspberry | Pi 4 Good points. I just saw this site: Note: prices are in local currency. Pi supply

Re: [GTALUG] More pointless battles [was: I'm discarding an old notebook!]

On 2022-02-15 17:24, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: Acer Aspire 9300 AMD Turion 64 X2 - so, roughly half of a Raspberry Pi 4. but it has a screen, keyboard, and you actually have it - unlike a Raspberry Pi 4 --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing

Re: [GTALUG] More pointless battles [was: I'm discarding an old notebook!]

haha! Unless the battery, after 10 years, is non-functional. In my case, it is 15 years. On Wed, 16 Feb 2022 at 14:38, Anthony de Boer via talk wrote: > D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > I'm pretty sure that the notebook could run DOS. Or act as a headless > > Linux server. Neither of

Re: [GTALUG] More pointless battles [was: I'm discarding an old notebook!]

Google OS flex system requirements: https://www.pcworld.com/article/614720/google-chrome-os-flex-turns-old-pcs-into-chromebooks-for-free.html "You’ll need a USB key with 8GB or more. PCs will need at least 4GB of RAM and 16GB of storage. The CPU restrictions are more lenient: You’ll need a 64-bit

Re: [GTALUG] More pointless battles [was: I'm discarding an old notebook!]

On 2022-02-15 5:24 p.m., D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: I've been shamed / intrigued into doing a bit more hacking on this Acer Aspire 9300 notebook. Spoiler: this was a waste of time. Here's a possibility:

[GTALUG] More pointless battles [was: I'm discarding an old notebook!]

I've been shamed / intrigued into doing a bit more hacking on this Acer Aspire 9300 notebook. Spoiler: this was a waste of time. A little over 5 years ago I had replaced the HDD with an SSD and put a then-current Fedora (24?) on it (no Windows). It was unreliable (for reasons I have