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You dont have 11 leftover/trash computers/laptops/harddrives your family dumped on you? Im 26 and ive been given legitimately 16 different computers from my mom, dad, grandparents, and in-laws
hmm actually me uncle asked me if I want his 10" netbook from like 2012. But I said I'm gonna buy a better netbook. Now thinking... Look at all these pre-2017 macbooks! I mean we could do a cluster!
Where do you think all the aforementioned hard drives came from? Lol. Its just that so many of the other parts are proprietary/old that I can't mix-and-match to make something more useful. For a breif period, I had four separate working desktops, and not one had a standard power supply or mobo. I swear all of that should be made illegal.