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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

@ripcord @GnuLinuxDude The lifecycle of my laptops:

- years 1-5: I use them.

- years 5-10: my kids use them (generally beating the crap out of them, covering them in boogers/popsicle juice, dropping them, etc).

- years 10-15: low-power selfhosted server which tucks away nicely, and has its own screen so that when something breaks I don't need to dig up an hdmi cable and monitor.

EDIT: because the OP asks for hardware: my current backup & torrent machine is a 4th gen i3 latitude e7240.