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Good to hear

Two different models 6 of 1 and four of the other, pretty old (windows 7) but I tested ethernet and it's gigabit!! and wifi is 5ghz so although old they are not too bad. i3 370m processor in 6 pcs, although I haven't checked the other ones yet but i imagine they will be similar. They were originally...

Thanks, I do have some cable and connectors but might have to get another reel (I can't remember how much I have used already so it's a bit of guess work. I do have a few cables in already, house machines and the garage/workshop is already hardwired (I doubt I could have finished the garage/workshop...

What will you use the 10 laptops for? Tbh I'm just going to set up a small network for testing, I want to use low power devices for economic reasons and even my server is an old dell E5570, which again didn't cost a lot (it was "spare or repair" purchase that I repaired). I bought a small...

bin wrote: ↑Sat Oct 28, 2023 6:26 am Yesterday I was behind a car whichh had the UK registration WN11 FKD - what a chuckle!

I hope the car get dirty and somebody draws a penguin at the end

That's a win then

Yes, there seems to be an abundance of cheap low power laptops on the market right now, I think mainly due to M$ trying to kill of all old hardware, I just picked up 10 laptops (no ram or hdd) for 99p on ebay! all work and have good screens, one has a key missing but only 1 has a good battery, altho...

I have a few Pi's v1 v3 v4 and am pretty happy with what they do but I can't see the need to upgrade to a v5 at the moment, although if I spot one at the right price (pretty doubtful on past experience) I will probably pick it up. They are great playthings and have some great uses but not enough (IM...

I've purged the cache again, let me know if that helps.

bin wrote:The most powerful tool for managing Flatpaks is to not install them in the first place.

I couldn't agree more! I try to stick to "proper" packages as much as possible.